Contemporary artist Judith Seligson (b. 1950, Philadelphia, PA) has painted hard-edge abstractions with varicolored geometric shapes that touch and traverse one another.

While his job as an architect is to fulfill his clients’ dreams, he said, his own domestic dreams do not involve the baronial country life that so many of his houses suggest. “I like to live in a very toned-down milieu,” he said. “I don’t want to collect 18th-century furniture or whatever. My idea of paradise is a house or an apartment in which you live with art around you."...