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Out of Darkness · 2023
Golden Moment
Available · in the studio, Phoenix
The gold that survives the dark — the luminous moment that emerges from Out of Darkness and refuses to disappear back into it.
Golden Moment (2023) is a visual embrace of fleeting beauty — that elusive instant when clarity and awe collide. Part of the Out of DarknessCollection, this 48 x 48 inch mixed media painting uses structure to frame sensation, transforming abstraction into a vessel for time.
The painting centers around a grid — not rigid, but luminous — built from golden lines that shimmer across textured fields of soft blue, dusky rose, and raw parchment. These intersecting forms don’t contain so much as illuminate, catching the eye like a spark in the periphery.
I created Golden Moment as a response to those ephemeral feelings we can’t hold, only notice — the way the light lands on a face, or the breath just before laughter. The title is both literal and metaphorical: an instant that glows, then vanishes.
This work draws influence from Agnes Martin, whose quiet grids radiate a presence that is more emotional than mathematical. Like Martin, I see repetition and symmetry not as rules, but as rhythms — gentle ways to organize something ungraspable.
Golden Moment isn’t about gold. It’s about recognition — the pause that occurs when beauty interrupts us. In this painting, that pause becomes form.
As part of the Out of Darkness Collection, this piece explores how geometry can serve poetry — how the sharp becomes soft, and how order can hold wonder without naming it.
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
- Low ambient light amplifies luminous passages — dark-wall installation ideal
- Daylight
- Almost entirely black, so a bright window falling across it flattens the field. Hang it in low, indirect light, where the single gold line does what it was painted to do: hold the room.
Lives best in
Hotel lobby 5/5
A lobby's high ceiling and ambient dimness are exactly what this three-by-four-foot field of black and emergent gold needs, the luminous passages intensifying as guests cross toward them, the painting doing the work of arrival.
Living room 4/5
Golden Moment earns its place in a living room where the host values a work that stops conversation rather than decorates it, the gold geometry rising from black ground with enough authority to hold a full wall without competing with furniture.
Details
- Size
- 3 × 4 ft (W × H)
- Medium
- Oil on canvas
- Year
- 2023
- Collection
- Out of Darkness
- Palette
- Black · Gold
- Weight
- About 45 lb
- Ready
- In the studio; delivery 8–12 weeks
Its ArtGram
ArtGram.Spray
- Texture2
- Form5
- Colour range2
- Palette4.4
- Contrast3.7
- Abstraction Quotient4
