Nostalgia

Top left to right: Armadura, Chameleon; Bottom left to right: Boombox, Calabaza

My newest collection is a tribute to my Gen X childhood, when rainbows were omnipresent. When I was a baby, my mom decorated my room with prints of paintings by Peter Max, famous for creating vibrant multicolored paintings and my childhood bedroom in Pittsburgh was covered in rainbow colored wallpaper that literally read "rainbow" repeatedly. I had rainbow barrettes, rainbow leg warmers, rainbow suspenders, holographic rainbow stickers and a Rainbow Brite doll (whose dress I tried to put on my unsuspecting cat, Domino, who promptly shredded it to bits).

Any surprise that color factors heavily into my artwork?

The Nostalgia collection revisits those wonderful rainbow times. My goal was to create a 3-D feel to each image and layer it with thick lines or adorn the canvas with pattern work. The images don't represent any object intentionally but after creating them, I can't help but see what's reflected in the title of each work, some of which are very indicative of the 80's. 

What do you see?

Polychromatic Engine, 24”x18”, ink on board.

Static, 10”x10”, ink on board.