Citizen Vinyl
Citizen Vinyl is an all-in-one record pressing plant, award-winning cocktail bar & cafe, and home to Coda, a record + art store that gave me my first part time job in Asheville. I was honored to produce a mural for their space, in the midst of people checking out records, getting coffee, dining at one of their chef-curated dinners, etc.
It was great fun to paint this one. The Citizen Times building where Citizen Vinyl is based, is an amazing Art Moderne style construction “With soaring twenty-two foot ceilings, mezzanines with curved railings, and 20,000 glass blocks providing natural light and insulation, there is no other space like it in Asheville.” Friends Shelter Collective did a masterful job at pronouncing the interiors’ geometric themes, leaving me with quite the task to create an image that reflects this philosophy, but also brings something to the table with new imagery and a brand new color palette.
I led off with design hoping to create four geometric figures mingling, complimenting the four large light fixtures on the wall. Imagery-wise, I didn’t want to get too representational in order to keep the mural in a sort of “pattern” realm, a la Anni and Josef Albers. It ended up becoming a kind of improvised kinetic color and form collage. Love it and hope you do too.
