Honiker's Multicultural II

A luminous work on paper, Honiker's Multicultural II layers watercolor in a composition that feels both cartographic and ceremonial, its washes of pigment held within a frame finished in satin gold and silver that lends the piece an almost antiquarian authority. The shallow depth belies the quiet complexity within — at nearly forty inches tall and just over thirty-three wide, it occupies a wall with the confidence of something collected rather than simply purchased. John Richard has long understood that the most considered interiors treat art and furnishing as a single conversation, and this piece speaks fluently in both registers.