The Art League Sept 2024 Wit & Whimsy Exhibit

Unhinged (60×36″ acrylic and spray paint on canvas) was selected by Elissa Armstrong, juror for the September 2024 Wit & Whimsy at The Art League, Alexandria, VA.

Concept and Process:

Unhinged is an attempt to relax the viewers, take their minds off daily obstacles, and engage them in a fun visual trick or illusion. Viewers may wonder if it’s meant to be about faces (profiles), plants, or buildings. And it is whatever they want it to be. I used florescent pink and light shades of yellow-green (acrylic) to set a soft atmosphere in the background and then energized it with dangling and upward-growing shapes (spray paint) and fixed-width thinner lines (collaged blue tape). The two futuristic orange spheres (eyes) and the lines (outlines of human or bird heads) interact to generate three whimsical profiles, with only two present simultaneously depending on which way you look at it—the wave being the mouth and nose or chin for all three.