Aida Starry Sky #9 by Sandra Vista

2023

Walking stick, beads, and gel medium

51"

Currently I am a mixed-media artist and a pattern painter. I am intriqued by the way things are designed and appreciate the "thinking" that's involved in creating all the things we use on a daily basis. My mixed-media work uses objects like old mobile phones and walking sticks to accentuate with strings of beads. The covering/abstracting of objects is related to my influence of Christo and the Dadaists like Marcel Duchamp and Man Ray. The pattern paintings are formal in there execution, focusing on the principals and elements of design to create individual palettes for each painting. The colors are intentionally dissonant, the themes do contain some organic images combined with stripes in black and white or red and yellow. The stripes are resting and caution spots as seen in our daily environment in hazard signs that alert us.