The Blues

Artist: Joley Smith

Medium: Acrylic on Panel

Year: 2023

Artist Joley Smith created this painting while taking the Painting 2 class at Allan Hancock College. Smith’s goal was to create a large-scale, non-objective painting. Taking nearly the whole semester to complete, this piece plays with the relationship between overlapping and underlapping shapes, the splicing of space, diffusion of attention, and a limited color palette. “The Blues” juxtaposes itself in that the composition of shapes feels chaotic and uncomfortable while the color palette acts to soothe and calm. Smith’s vision is for anyone who views this painting to take a moment to really look at it and let their eyes be drawn back and forth across the composition. 

Stop Categories: F-Building, Two-Dimensional Art