The Fence Art Project features nine large-scale paintings on canvas mounted to construction fences. The pieces hang near the new SEDA offices at Drayton and Forsyth Park, as well as in front of two additional developments on Bull Street, one on the west side near 38th, and one on the east side close to the intersection of 31st.
Organized by local business owner and art advocate Clinton Edminster, the project features a diverse collection of artists and styles, each working with the theme of “Building Together.”
With Amiri Geuka Farris’ contribution to the project, the artist is tackling the concept both literally and metaphorically.
“Easily I drew some sketches that became the final painting Exodus,” said Richardson.
The piece is loosely inspired by The Flight into Egypt, a pencil drawing by French Realist Jean-Francois Millet. Like her painting for the Fence Art Project, Millet’s Flight features two people intimately connected, something which immediately stood out to Richardson when she first saw it during a lecture on the video meeting app Zoom. But it was the way that a more well-known artist was impacted by Millet’s images that really influenced the Savannahian in her own work.
“[Vincent] Van Gogh only saw black and white reproductions of [Millet’s] work because of the limitations of printing in the 19th century,” Richardson recounted. “Instead, he would do what he called ‘color translations.’”
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