Yellow Chair Salon is pleased to present Fliers and Crawlers, Patricia Tewes Richards’s first solo exhibition at Art Cake.

Fliers and Crawlers takes its title from two fundamental modes of movement in the insect world—flight and crawling—each serving as an entry point into abstraction. Insects have fascinated Richards since childhood, but they are part of a larger interest in close observation that extends to plants, animals, and the natural world more broadly. In this new body of work, she transforms that lifelong attention into a painterly investigation of composition, color, pattern, and material. The exhibition unfolds like a cabinet of curiosities or an insectarium, with constellations of works organized by specimen, form, and color rather than chronology or subject alone.