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SoHo — Original Framed New York City Mixed Media Painting
2023 | Cold Wax and Mixed Media on Canvas | Original Framed Painting
Some neighborhoods tell their stories through architecture. Others leave fragments of them on the walls.
In SoHo, contemporary artist Alissa Van Atta transforms an original photograph taken in New York City's celebrated SoHo neighborhood into a richly textured exploration of urban memory, layered history, and the creative energy of the city.
Weathered architectural forms emerge across the upper portion of the composition, their windows and facades partially concealed beneath veils of smoky gray, pale blue, charcoal, and muted cream. The recognizable details of the city seem to dissolve into the surrounding abstraction, creating an atmosphere that feels simultaneously familiar and elusive.
Unexpected passages of golden yellow interrupt the subdued palette, while loose pink linear gestures drift across the left side of the painting. These expressive marks introduce a playful spontaneity that contrasts with the weight and structure of the surrounding buildings.
Fragments of printed text and imagery appear beneath the textured surface, suggesting the accumulated visual history of a neighborhood where architecture, commerce, fashion, and artistic expression have long occupied the same streets.
Working from her original photograph, Van Atta combines cold wax, layered tissue paper, and mixed-media techniques to create a surface that moves beyond straightforward representation. Scraped passages, distressed textures, and translucent layers reveal and conceal elements of the underlying image.
The result is not simply a depiction of SoHo, but an interpretation of how a place is experienced and remembered.
New York's SoHo neighborhood is known for its cast-iron architecture, creative history, and evolving cultural identity. Its streets embody the continual transformation of urban spaces, where traces of earlier lives and artistic movements coexist with contemporary activity.
SoHo reflects this tension between preservation and reinvention. Its fragmented imagery suggests that the character of a neighborhood cannot be contained within a single view or moment in time.
The delicate pink gestures provide a visual counterpoint to the surrounding architectural imagery, introducing an element of personality and expressive freedom into the structured urban environment.
Part of Van Atta's Her City collection, SoHo explores the emotional and material character of New York through a combination of photography, abstraction, and tactile experimentation.
Intimate in scale yet visually complex, the painting invites close observation, rewarding viewers with details that gradually emerge from its layered surface.
Because a city's most interesting stories aren't always written in its skyline. Sometimes they're hiding in the layers beneath.
Artwork Details
Artist: Alissa Van Atta
Title: SoHo
Year: 2023
Medium: Cold Wax and Mixed Media on Canvas
Canvas Dimensions: 12 H × 12 W × 0.75 D inches
Framed Dimensions: 13 H × 13 W × 1.5 D inches
Original: One-of-a-kind artwork
Signed: Yes
Presentation: Framed
Collection: Her City
Price: $600
Status: Available
Location: Artist's inventory
This original mixed-media painting is sold framed. Insured shipping is available, with protective packaging suitable for a textured original artwork.
2023 | Cold Wax and Mixed Media on Canvas | Original Framed Painting
Some neighborhoods tell their stories through architecture. Others leave fragments of them on the walls.
In SoHo, contemporary artist Alissa Van Atta transforms an original photograph taken in New York City's celebrated SoHo neighborhood into a richly textured exploration of urban memory, layered history, and the creative energy of the city.
Weathered architectural forms emerge across the upper portion of the composition, their windows and facades partially concealed beneath veils of smoky gray, pale blue, charcoal, and muted cream. The recognizable details of the city seem to dissolve into the surrounding abstraction, creating an atmosphere that feels simultaneously familiar and elusive.
Unexpected passages of golden yellow interrupt the subdued palette, while loose pink linear gestures drift across the left side of the painting. These expressive marks introduce a playful spontaneity that contrasts with the weight and structure of the surrounding buildings.
Fragments of printed text and imagery appear beneath the textured surface, suggesting the accumulated visual history of a neighborhood where architecture, commerce, fashion, and artistic expression have long occupied the same streets.
Working from her original photograph, Van Atta combines cold wax, layered tissue paper, and mixed-media techniques to create a surface that moves beyond straightforward representation. Scraped passages, distressed textures, and translucent layers reveal and conceal elements of the underlying image.
The result is not simply a depiction of SoHo, but an interpretation of how a place is experienced and remembered.
New York's SoHo neighborhood is known for its cast-iron architecture, creative history, and evolving cultural identity. Its streets embody the continual transformation of urban spaces, where traces of earlier lives and artistic movements coexist with contemporary activity.
SoHo reflects this tension between preservation and reinvention. Its fragmented imagery suggests that the character of a neighborhood cannot be contained within a single view or moment in time.
The delicate pink gestures provide a visual counterpoint to the surrounding architectural imagery, introducing an element of personality and expressive freedom into the structured urban environment.
Part of Van Atta's Her City collection, SoHo explores the emotional and material character of New York through a combination of photography, abstraction, and tactile experimentation.
Intimate in scale yet visually complex, the painting invites close observation, rewarding viewers with details that gradually emerge from its layered surface.
Because a city's most interesting stories aren't always written in its skyline. Sometimes they're hiding in the layers beneath.
Artwork Details
Artist: Alissa Van Atta
Title: SoHo
Year: 2023
Medium: Cold Wax and Mixed Media on Canvas
Canvas Dimensions: 12 H × 12 W × 0.75 D inches
Framed Dimensions: 13 H × 13 W × 1.5 D inches
Original: One-of-a-kind artwork
Signed: Yes
Presentation: Framed
Collection: Her City
Price: $600
Status: Available
Location: Artist's inventory
This original mixed-media painting is sold framed. Insured shipping is available, with protective packaging suitable for a textured original artwork.