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RICHARD COLMAN RETNA San Francisco–based artist Richard Colman, along with Los Angeles– based artist Retna, transformed a Power House–owned former home into a monochromatic wonderland of typographic symbols by Retna and landscape and geometric symbols by Colman. Colman painted an entire room full of leaf-bare trees on an otherworldly silver ground. (Photos: Tod Seelie) 76 AND DESIGN 99: JUXTAPOZ & POWER HOUSE Productions RESIDENCIES THE 77 [3.145.131.238] Project MUSE (2024-04-26 01:50 GMT) 78 79 Complicated geometric symbols by Colman adorn the walls throughout the house. (Photo: Tod Seelie) [3.145.131.238] Project MUSE (2024-04-26 01:50 GMT) Retna’s beautifully fluid layered letterforms in a palette of black, white, and silver cover the walls, floor, interior, and exterior of the house. Internationally acclaimed, Retna has been known to paint everything from jets to walls worldwide. (Photo: Tod Seelie) 80 This living, breathing piece of art now has a new life as Sound House, a recording studio run by artist Jon Brumit. 81 [3.145.131.238] Project MUSE (2024-04-26 01:50 GMT) 82 83 (Photos: Tod Seelie) ...

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