Artwork copyright Barbara Breckenfeld. Photo courtesy of Washington State Arts Commission, 2017.

Double Vee, 1985

Barbara Breckenfeld
American (born 1953)

Location: Friday Harbor Elementary, Friday Harbor

About the Artwork

Double Vee is a painted wooden relief by artist Barbara Breckenfeld. The composition explores space and dimensions using color, pattern, and texture. She notes, "My inspirations are textiles and architecture, color, texture, form, and structure. This relationship to fibers is reinforces even in rubbing paint off the wood – revealing its woodiness, and a moiré pattern!" Moireé is an optical illusion created by shifting and overlapping patterns that confuse the eye.

This artwork was acquired for the State Art Collection in partnership with San Juan Island School District.

About the Artist

Seattle-based artist Barbara Breckenfeld creates paintings, sculptures and fiber artworks. She studied at Colby College in Waterville, Maine, and Scripps College in Claremont, California. She received a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in Fiber Art from Philadelphia College of Art in 1976. She has served as a guest lecturer at the University of Washington, University of Pennsylvania, and Tyler School of Art.