Dancing Woman with Yellow Chair was produced early in Richard Killeen's career, after he graduated from Elam School of Fine Arts in 1966. This work lays out elements of his style that later developed into the cut-outs more commonly associated with the artist today. Dancing Woman with Yellow Chair explores a new reality as the traditional rural Kiwi lifestyle gave way to a new modern urban way of life; the suburban dream. The forms, graphically inspired and reduced to the most basic geometric shapes, foreshadow Killeen's later development and his eventual revolt from the confines of the picture plane.