Jim Oliveira

NYTimes:
Over the past 20 years, Jim Oliveira, a Manhattan artist, has developed a technique for creating paintings he calls “color piles.” He mixes clear acrylic with inks and pigments, and pours it onto plastic-lined worktables, as if it were pancake batter, forming circles of varying sizes and thicknesses. Once they have dried, the disks are stacked into clusters and attached to a Belgian linen canvas. Now he is using the same technique to make ottomans, which are covered in a “fabric” of acrylic disks over a reinforced plywood frame that sits on glides. They come in 12- and 18-inch sizes ($8,500 to $12,500), and in multicolored compositions, left, as well as black, metallic gold and a bright blue inspired by the painters Yves Klein and Lucio Fontana. Information: (212) 343-2524 or jimoliveirastudio.com.