Naomi Okubo’s Calamities of Pattern and Color

Naomi Okubo’s paintings are a collision of pattern and color, where everything is draped in detail. Flat, large fields of color don’t seem to exist and are instead replaced by ornate flower arrangements, plaid, and stripes. The visual calamity is what makes her work interesting, especially as our eye wades through the complex image.

Okubo writes that her pieces explore the relationship that we have to fashion and our appearance, especially when the desire to be on trend becomes more important than other (arguably more important) facets of our existence.

All images via her website.