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Black & White · 2023
Crashing Structures in Color
Available · in the studio, Phoenix
Color crashing into structure — but held in grayscale, the color remembered rather than present, the crash still visible.
Crashing (2023) is a visual collision — a painting where energy doesn’t land, but shatters. Part of the Ephemeral Atmosphere Collection, this 72 x 48 inch mixed media work channels impact, entropy, and release. It is not about destruction, but about the beauty found in breaking apart.
The composition leans diagonally, as if pulled by gravity. Slashes of black and crimson tear across a base of pale violet and weathered steel. Texture builds and fragments — scratches, splatters, and directional force. There is no balance here. Only motion. Only impact.
I painted Crashing after a personal wave of overwhelm. The world didn’t fall apart — but it tilted. The canvas became a way to process the moment just after impact, when everything is still flying, before it settles again.
This work shares a kinetic sensibility with Joan Mitchell, especially her late canvases that blend lyrical color with raw, directional energy. Like Mitchell, I use abstraction to capture emotion not as mood, but as movement.
Crashing is not a story. It’s a state. A wave breaking. A breath taken too late. A record of a moment too fast to frame.
As part of the Ephemeral Atmosphere Collection, this painting captures the beauty of what doesn’t hold. What surges. What erupts. What releases.
Where to see it. In person at RituStudio, Phoenix, by appointment. Represented by Jarrow & Goodman, Los Angeles.
The space it needs
- Wall
- At least 8 ft wide
- Ceiling
- 9 ft or more
- Light
- Any lighting — monochrome palette is lighting-agnostic
- Daylight
- Lilac gray and shadow blue keep their quiet temperature in any light. The low contrast is the risk: full sun through glass washes the crash out, so give it indirect daylight.
Lives best in
Living room 4/5
At 4×6 feet, the crashing gray and lilac forms hold a living room wall without overwhelming it, giving anyone who sits across from the canvas a slow collision to return to.
Bedroom 4/5
The shadow blues and lilac grays cool the room down, and the held breath of the impact moment asks nothing of someone trying to rest, only offers quiet awe on the way to sleep.
Details
- Size
- 4 × 6 ft (W × H)
- Medium
- Acrylic on canvas
- Finish
- Epoxy over acrylic. The resin lifts the color off the canvas and holds it forward, so the surface deepens as the light moves across the room.
- Year
- 2023
- Collection
- Black & White
- Palette
- Deep Gray · Lilac Gray · Shadow Depth · Shadow Blue
- Weight
- About 45 lb
- Ready
- In the studio; delivery 6–8 weeks
Its ArtGram
ArtGram.Fork
- Texture2
- Form2
- Colour range2
- Palette3.3
- Contrast2.3
- Abstraction Quotient4
