Old School Hair Drying Chair Painting

"Hair Drying Chair"

18"x22" Spray Paint on Salvaged Wood

2011

This painting reminds me a lot of my grandmother.  When I was a child she would take me with her as she got her hair done.  She would always sit in a hair drying chair and talk with her friends or read a magazine while she waited.  As a kid this contraption was really confusing to me.  Taking into account that I was only like 4 years old, I couldn’t figure out what that round thing that came down over the top of my grandmothers head was doing.  It was just a strange looking chair to me. 

As I drove home the other day I was sitting at a red light.  I looked over into the window of a salon and saw one of those old school hair drying chairs.  I was immediately taken back to the hair salon with my grandmother.  I know it may seem like a random object to make a painting of.  I often try to add something that appears a bit random into my paintings.