Carousel Fine Art x Milieu: Atlanta · Collaboration

  • We're teaming up with Milieu, the luxury game table maker, to hang three paintings by Chance Cooper and Eric Alfaro in their Atlanta showroom. The works are part of Milieu's new showcase at the Atlanta Decorative Arts Center.

  • A room made for play

    A room made for play

    A great game table pulls people together. Milieu has been building them by hand since 1928, from billiard tables to a table tennis table. We believe art belongs in the rooms where people laugh, linger and lose track of time. So we're bringing three paintings with plenty of personality. Cooper's characters bring the stories. Alfaro's textured color brings the warmth.

  • MEET THE ARTISTS

    Chance Cooper

    Chance Cooper is based in Los Angeles, and his paintings start with memory. He draws on moments from his own life, the ones he holds on to and the ones he has forgotten, and turns them into scenes where playful characters seem ready to share their secrets. He tells layered stories through simple forms and an illustrative line. Words, objects and gestures point the way, and you fill in the rest. Each canvas leaves the ending to you.

     

    Cooper works in series. In his "Song" series, monochrome figures stand against solid white backgrounds, and the paintings carry numbered titles such as The Tenth Song and The Seventeenth Song. 

     

    See more of Chance Cooper's work

     

    Eric Alfaro

    Eric Alfaro was born in Cuba in 1991 and trained at the Provincial Academy of Fine Arts Raúl Martínez in Morón. 

     

    His paintings are thick with texture. He builds each surface with brushes and spatulas, so flowers and water seem to lift off the canvas. He often starts from photographs, then shifts the elements and colors until the scene becomes his own. Smudged, blurred passages give the images a sense of movement. Monet is a clear influence. Alfaro describes using paint "as a means of expression and experimentation with color." 

     

    See more of Eric Alfaro's work

     

     

  • The Artworks

  • ABOUT MILIEU

    ABOUT MILIEU

    Milieu makes luxury game tables by hand. The company has been at it since 1928, with more than two generations of table makers behind the work.

     

    Their idea is simple. A game table is a reason to put the phone down and gather. Milieu describes it as a way to "disconnect to reconnect," and they build with that in mind, from the first detail to the delivery.

     

    The collection includes the Nouveau, Lunada and Allison billiard tables and the Gigi table tennis table. You can see them in person at the showroom in the Atlanta Decorative Arts Center, or explore the full collection at milieu1928.com.