“Untitled by Kelley Johnson is made with acrylic and Flashe (or vinyl paint) on canvas. It measures approximately seven and half feet tall by six feet wide. It stands in portrait orientation, meaning that its shortest side runs parallel to the ground. Untitled is an abstract painting consisting of flat but colorful repeating lines and geometric shapes. The background in the painting is formed by various stripes of color that are in the shape of a diamond. The diamond appears to grow outwards from the center of the canvas, just slightly askew to the right. The stripes appear to have soft edges and are painted with bright colors; varying from light to dark blues, teals, greens, reds and yellows. These stripes overlap each other as they radiate from the center of the picture, which lends to their soft appearance and creates a vibrating effect. Over this layer of colorful diamond-shaped stripes, there is a flat white grid. The grid is evenly spaced and laid at a forty-five-degree angle, so that its squares also appear diamond shaped. Twelve out of the nearly one hundred grid boxes are completely filled in with white while the rest of the grid remains open. These white diamonds are seemingly random across the canvas, standing in stark contrast to the vibrating colors beneath. There are six vertical stripes to the left of the diamond shape, while there are three more to its right. These vertical stripes that span the entire height of the canvas is painted both beneath and overlapping the white grid. The stripes range from white, cherry red, orange, rust, pink and blue in color. The right and bottom edges also have a royal blue stripe along their borders with another blue stripe that cuts in from the bottom left corner at a forty-five-degree angle. The layering of the stripes, grids and color play with our spatial perception, challenging the figure ground relationships of the shapes in the piece. “