Abstract Portrait of the Crowd

2016
Each of us might be seen as a walking cluster of data.

Participatory collective painting event in which each poster records visitors as a form would do. Each field of such a form accommodates a particular mix of acrylic colours capturing one visitor. Exhibited at Tique Gallery, Antwerp.

  • Abstract Portrait of the Crowd: an eye peers through a black form whose numbered fields fan out, held up against green
  • Abstract Portrait of the Crowd: peach, mint and rust acrylic colours fill a form on green, 'At the end I became a Painter'
  • Abstract Portrait of the Crowd: a visitor's red brush lays pale acrylic in one field of a fanned form on a pink poster
  • Abstract Portrait of the Crowd: a figure in stripes paints a black form as visitors watch, acrylic tubes crowd a plinth
  • Abstract Portrait of the Crowd: black, pink and green posters carry blank numbered forms, acrylic tubes wait on plinths
  • Abstract Portrait of the Crowd: two blank forms side by side, boxed numbers on black, fields fanning out on pink
  • Abstract Portrait of the Crowd: orange, ochre, pink and brown acrylic colours curl through the fields of a form on black
  • Abstract Portrait of the Crowd: a blank form on pink, twenty numbered fields fan out, each waiting to record a visitor
  • Abstract Portrait of the Crowd: on black, twenty cell-like fields tile a blank white form amid terracotta and mauve blobs
  • Abstract Portrait of the Crowd: on green, twenty numbered arcs mark fields in a blank form amid purple and brown blobs