Vibrant abstract composition featuring overlapping geometric shapes in hot pink, magenta, yellow, orange, and lime green against a deep burgundy background. Layered collage, acrylic, and oil create dimensional facets and translucent passages that suggest movement and depth across the canvas.

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Alayne Spafford

2/27/2026 – 4/15/2026

fiftyseven-9, 2025, collage/acrylic/oil on canvas, 48” x 48”

I’ve always felt like I have a heightened sense of colour. Even as a child, I was fascinated by colour combinations. My art is still an exploration of colour but also shape, texture, movement, and how the combination of all of these elements can create something special. I intentionally create images that are non-representational and titled in number sequences specifically for that reason. My paintings begin with a spontaneous and unstructured first layer of collage, drips, scribbles and spray paint. The next layer I add more depth and mark making. I then try to find the shapes within that. It all builds from that point and is almost never pre-planned, but all happens in the process. I want people to look at my work in its most basic, primal sense: colour, shape, and texture. How these elements are balanced evolves, but always remains true to my artistic aesthetic. My hope is that I can evoke an instinctual emotional response in the viewer, something that is felt rather than known, without necessarily knowing why.

Alayne Spafford, 2026

 

Exhibition Images ()

  • Three large abstract paintings with vibrant geometric shapes in shades of turquoise, magenta, orange, yellow, and blue arranged on a white gallery wall. The compositions feature overlapping organic and angular forms created through collage, acrylic, and oil techniques, emphasizing bold color combinations and layered textures.
  • Gallery wall displaying three vibrant abstract artworks with bold geometric shapes in magenta, cyan, yellow, green, and orange against contrasting dark and light backgrounds, created through layered collage, acrylic, and oil techniques.
  • Three framed abstract compositions featuring vibrant geometric shapes in magenta, cyan, yellow, green, and blue arranged against contrasting dark and light backgrounds, displayed on white gallery walls above a polished concrete floor.
Vibrant abstract composition featuring overlapping geometric shapes in hot pink, magenta, yellow, orange, and lime green against a deep burgundy background. Layered collage, acrylic, and oil create dimensional facets and translucent passages that suggest movement and depth across the canvas.

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