Joe La Placa

Joe La Placa (b. New York, 1959) is an art dealer based in London. From the ‘Sensitive Chaos’ series the original, often mistaken for a computer generated image, was entirely painted by hand using a complex masking technique to create the Moiré pattern and rare pigments suspended in a Silica based polymer. 

The 'Sensitive Chaos' series was inspired by La Placa's interest in the Butterfly effect and dynamic symmetries. For instance, the inspiration for the painting ‘Diffraction’ is as La Placa quotes; “What the liberation of sound from a diamond stylus in a vinyl record grove would look like from a microscopic point of view?”