Celestial Stroll

Encaustic and oil, 24 x 24 x 2, 2011

Jay Lazerwitz’s artwork is shaped by a deep attention to architecture, ecology, and the natural world—where built structures and living systems begin to mirror one another. His compositions feel like imagined environments: part city-grid, part organism, assembled from interlocking forms that suggest growth, erosion, and renewal all at once.

The work becomes a meditation on thresholds between nature and structure, order and wildness, separation and connection; where one form ends and another begins, and how those borders shift over time.

Jay Lazerwitz is a visual artist and retired architect with studios in Seattle and Sequim, WA. Primarily a painter utilizing encaustic and oil, and engaged in wood, and the mix of architectonic and natural forms are apparent in both medium, each influencing the other. The built environment is central to the work.
Jay has served on the Seattle Arts Commission, co-founded and developed the BallardWorks Artist Studio building, co-founded ArtSpace Seattle, and is engaged in neighborhood issues and advocacy for affordable housing.