The Curiosity of Jerry Vis: Creative Architect
Jerry Vis is an architectural designer who, at 79 years old, still remains creatively curious when it comes to making art.
A Craftsman’s Home in Rosendale
“I have the soul of a painter,” says Vis, described as a “master of color” by Upstream Gallery in Dobbs Ferry. “That’s why you don’t see white on the walls of my house. I think it drains everything around it.”
Golden Age New Paltz
“My relationship with art is not a love affair. It is more like a continuation of the kind of curiosity a toddler has about the world around them. That curiosity is not about love but understanding the larger world beyond the confines of my body and mind.”
Coming in on a Wing and a Prayer
In the 1950s, Jerry Vis had an uneventful, blue-collar, stickball-in-the-street childhood in Paterson, N.J. That is, until his father, who had been no more than a vaporous, bring-home-the-bacon presence, nearly killed himself with alcohol and suddenly got religion. His determination to inflict his newfound faith on all he knew changed Jerry’s life forever.
