Thomas Roese, Cle Series: Escape with Ghost

Drawing

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Canton Museum of Art

Thomas Roese, Cle Series: Escape with Ghost: Depiction of a fire escape on the side of a building. The ghost of letters, in white, are at the top of the building. The building is brick, and the fire escape is the main focus of the piece and is depicted from a unique angle, below it.
Thomas Roese, Cle Series: Escape with Ghost

Depiction of a fire escape on the side of a building. The ghost of letters, in white, are at the top of the building. The building is brick, and the fire escape is the main focus of the piece and is depicted from a unique angle, below it.

Name/Title

Thomas Roese, Cle Series: Escape with Ghost

Entry/Object ID

2020.4

Description

Roese creates industrial pieces of Cleveland which are heavily inspired by his upbringing in Old Brooklyn, a neighborhood of Cleveland overlooking the industrial flats. Roese’s father was a factory worker and he was exposed to the lifestyle of the working class. His was a childhood filled with blue collar workers, steel mills, chemical plants, smoke, and noise, with endless time spent drawing houses in his neighborhood, and creating a link between the grittiness of his graphite pencil with the grit of the industrial scene. This particular piece has the “ghost” of a name on its building, a leftover reminder of the once bustling industrial side of Cleveland.