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Black & White · 2024
Disturbance
Available · in the studio, Phoenix
The disruption held in monochrome — disturbance as a formal event, the surface that has been interrupted and shows it plainly.
Disturbance (2024) is a record of rupture — a visual response to the way energy shifts and disorients. Painted on a 60 x 48 inch canvas in layered acrylics, this piece from the Greyscale collection is both visceral and atmospheric. It doesn’t show an event; it embodies it.
The canvas is dominated by a vibrating field of reds, dark purples, and black, slashed with sudden gestures of white and ochre. Paint has been dragged, smeared, scraped — at times violently, at times with unexpected delicacy. Some areas crack and split, while others are glazed over like a wound healing beneath skin.
I created Disturbance while navigating a moment of emotional and external turbulence. This painting was not planned. It was pushed into being — each mark reacting to the last, each decision testing balance and break.
The work calls to mind the expressive chaos of Emil Nolde and the urgency of Joan Mitchell, though my palette remains grounded in a darker, internal register. Like those artists, I believe the body knows more than the mind when it comes to painting through emotion.
Disturbance doesn’t ask to be decoded. It asks to be felt — to be entered through its heat, its rhythm, its rawness.
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
- Black hatching on pale gray holds its character in any light. With texture this high, raking morning or evening light makes the disturbance physical; flat noon sun reduces it to drawing.
Lives best in
Office 5/5
A 5 in a private office, where the raw sequencing of mark upon mark, each one answering the last, mirrors the logic of focused work and makes the silence in the room feel productive rather than empty.
Boardroom 5/5
The boardroom is where this painting belongs completely: the dense, reactive black strokes across a narrow gray palette project command without decoration, and the scale fills the wall without asking anyone in the room to look away from the table.
Details
- Size
- 4 × 5 ft (W × H)
- Medium
- Acrylic on canvas
- Year
- 2024
- Collection
- Black & White
- Palette
- Pale Gray · Spectral Gray · Black
- Weight
- About 45 lb
- Ready
- In the studio; delivery 6–8 weeks
Its ArtGram
ArtGram.Spray
- Texture5
- Form1
- Colour range1
- Palette4.2
- Contrast4.4
- Abstraction Quotient3
