Moonscape I, welded steel, w 10 x d 8 x h 20, valued at $1500.

Artists Statement: My welded steel sculpture explores how buildings, bridges, vehicles and other physical infrastructure that we create influence us. We live in the negative space created by those structures, and they affect how we think of ourselves, the world, even other worlds and how we express our ideas and beliefs. My career as a lawyer and consultant dealt with how rules and processes shape our lives, how we think, and what we do. The physical environment also impacts our lives, and that is what my sculpture delves into. Even the organic forms of man and nature are represented by architectural metaphors. My sculptures are totems which use the vocabulary of our urban surroundings to express what we see and feel just as ancient totems used forests, beasts, and mountains to reflect the ideas and emotions of their creators. Eric H Steele, 2016

Eric H Steele (Born Chicago, 1941) lives and works in Chicago. 
After a successful career in law and technology consulting he has 
become a sculptor. He holds degrees from Yale, Harvard and 
Northwestern Universities and also studied art at the Evanston Art 
Center and Ox-Bow Summer Program of the School of the Art 
Institute of Chicago. He has had solo exhibitions at the 
Renaissance Court Gallery, Chicago Cultural Center and the 
Lincolnwood Village Hall. His work has been in numerous group 
shows.