Collection II

2023

Acrylic on wood panel

20 x 16 inches

A collection of vintage chairs floats among sections of pattern. The color palette is reminiscent of the 1970s with lots of warms and neutrals. Each pattern has a strong sense of directionality, making your eye move across the painting and keeping you engaged with the chairs. The patterns are also evocative of patterned vinyl flooring.

There are different types of treatment for the chairs: rendering, outlining/drawing, and outlining with loose, seemingly random swaths of another color that don’t fully fill in any section of the chair, allowing another color or pattern beneath to show through.