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Ephemeral Atmosphere · 2024
Life is 3 Dimensional
Available · in the studio, Phoenix
The third dimension as insistence — atmospheric painting refusing to accept that the surface it lives on is the whole story.
“In 'Life is 3 Dimensional', abstraction dances gently with meaning, never arriving, always evolving.”
Life is 3 Dimensional (2024) is a playful assertion — a pop abstraction that reminds us how much we flatten, how much we overlook. This 48 x 48 inch mixed media work from the Ephemeral Atmosphere Collection pushes the visual language of depth, illusion, and surface into a bold, tongue-in-cheek composition.
At the center is a series of overlapping cubes — some painted, some etched, others layered with resin and foam. Bright colors — pink, cyan, chartreuse, jet black — pop against a white background fractured by faint gridlines. The whole piece reads like a spatial illusion from afar, but up close it’s sculptural — thick with material, intentional in disruption.
I made Life is 3 Dimensional after reflecting on how much of modern life is viewed on screens — flattened, reduced, mediated. This painting reclaims form. It insists on volume. It wants to be felt as much as seen.
There’s a wink to Patrick Caulfield and Peter Halley, artists who blend satire with strong formal control. Like them, I play with illusion not to trick the eye, but to wake it up.
Life is 3 Dimensional isn’t just a title. It’s a prompt — to step closer, see more, and remember that depth is always there.
Where to see it. In person at RituStudio, Phoenix, by appointment. Represented by Jarrow & Goodman, Los Angeles.
The space it needs
- Wall
- At least 5 ft wide
- Ceiling
- 8 ft or more
- Light
- Natural light transforms this work — morning and evening light read differently
- Daylight
- Deep ink and charcoal hold steady, and strong contrast keeps its depth readable in bright rooms. Avoid hard direct sun on the darkest passages, where the third dimension flattens first.
Lives best in
Living room 5/5
Life is 3 Dimensional earns its 5 here because a living room is the one domestic space where a viewer can stand back, then walk forward, and let the ink-and-umber depth pull them in twice.
Bedroom 4/5
The somber mood and receding dark palette ask more of a resting mind than most sleepers want, but for a collector who values awe over ease, the muted whites keep it from becoming oppressive.
Details
- Size
- 4 × 4 ft (W × H)
- Medium
- Acrylic on canvas
- Year
- 2024
- Collection
- Ephemeral Atmosphere
- Palette
- Deep Ink · Charcoal Gray · Burnt Umber · Moss · Muted White
- Weight
- About 22 lb
- Ready
- In the studio; delivery 6–10 weeks
Its ArtGram
ArtGram.Sprig
- Texture3
- Form3
- Colour range4
- Palette3.1
- Contrast4.4
- Abstraction Quotient2
