BUFF (Blue Wall, Pink Pattern)
Lenore Thomas and Ivette Spradlin, 2024
The work created by the collaborative team, BUFF, is about conversations: ones that Ivette has with the environment, buildings, and painted out graffiti buffs as she walks throughout the city; conversations Lenore has with Ivette’s photographs, color, patterns, light, scale, collage; and conversations we have with one another while making the work. The resulting unique mixed media pieces are the material result of these exchanges. We invite viewers to see the buffs as something like a found color field painting that has been removed from its original context and then physically and conceptually extended through material interventions.
Materials: Mixed Media, Vinyl, Digital Print
Location: Concourse C
Type: Photography
Photo courtesy of Ivette Spradlin
About the Artist
BUFF was formed in 2015. They have created multiple bodies of print and video work and shown in several exhibitions.
Lenore Thomas was an artist, friend, wife, sister, aunt, teacher and lover of puppies. She was Chair of Studio Arts and an Associate Professor of Printmaking at the University of Pittsburgh.
Ivette Spradlin is a lens-based artist whose work centers around the emotional aspects of transition, adaptation and communal ties. She teaches photography at Kennesaw State University.
Photo courtesy of Ivette Spradlin
