This painting by Les Namingha is entitled, “Hopi Bowl Design”.  It is part of his “Urban Polychrome series. The painting is on board and it is framed.  The painting has a crackled back layer with a large Hopi bird painted on the surface.  The body of the bird is highlighted with various Hopi-Tewa designs.  The area around the bird is painted with pointilism dots and lines.  The background is striped.  Take a closer look at the second photo and you can see the crackling. It gives a feeling of pottery and clay with the acrylic.  Exceptional! Les says of the Urban Polychrome series:

“The concept of layering is inherent in our mortal journey. As time moves forward, our memories become layered. Some memories remain vibrant, others faint or hazy. Yet others, obscure or even hidden. Likewise, our experiences, words, works, emotions, prayers and songs build up in layers creating our existence. In turn, our societal interactions become exercises in layering. We see this in evidence with street art or graffiti writing where layers of thought and a desire to express a “proof of existence” create tapestries of color and marks. Blending, covering, harmonizing, dissonance, disappearing. This concept of layering is the idea behind Urban Polychrome and other works in the Urban Series.”