American Art Collaborative

Sky Overcast, is one of several images that Louis Lozowick created of telephone wires, is both a naturalistic landscape and an abstract composition. The soft forms of the clouds contrast with the straight black lines of the wires, which bend into unusual angles and shapes. Meanwhile, a single tree in the left corner both grounds and disorients us, prompting us to question our actual vantage point in the landscape. Originally from a small village in what is now Ukraine, Louis Lozowick immigrated to the United States as a child. During the 1920s, he spent several years in Europe, living in Paris and Berlin. Lozowick became closely associated with the Russian constructivists working in Germany, and their emphasis on technology and abstract geometric forms profoundly influenced his work. Beginning in the 1930s, however, Lozowick also began creating landscapes, exploring the interaction between the natural world and human technology.