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Ephemeral Atmosphere · 2023
Midnight Summer Dream
Available · in the studio, Phoenix
The dark summer night — warmth still in the darkness, the atmospheric quality of being outside after midnight when the heat hasn't gone.
Midnight Summer Dream (2023) is an abstract ode to nocturnal reverie — a painting that captures the sensory overflow of a summer night when the world feels both entirely yours and completely unknowable. Part of the Ephemeral Atmosphere Collection, this 48 x 48 inch mixed media piece immerses the viewer in mystery, warmth, and wonder.
Deep indigos and smoky purples stretch across the canvas, scattered with flickers of gold, blush, and a misty forest green. The surface shimmers and recedes like moonlight on skin, or fragments of memory you catch just as you're falling asleep. There are forms, but they fade. There are gestures, but they hush.
I created Midnight Summer Dream as a love letter to the way memory and imagination melt into each other at night. This is not a dream to be understood — it’s one that asks to be felt, as if walking barefoot through air thick with warmth and meaning.
This painting resonates with the poetic atmospheres of Mark Rothko, though less severe and more lyrical — inviting contemplation not through solemnity, but through softness. Like Rothko, I use color as a mood, a question, a pulse.
Midnight Summer Dream isn’t about night. It’s about that liminal space when time slips and every shadow holds a secret.
As part of the Ephemeral Atmosphere Collection, this work celebrates ambiguity as an emotional truth — lush, unsolvable, and completely alive.
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
- Natural light transforms this work — morning and evening light read differently
- Daylight
- Deep indigo and navy hold their color, though direct sun will flatten them. Soft indirect daylight or evening lamps let the gold and blush accents carry the warmth of a summer night.
Lives best in
Living room 5/5
Midnight Summer Dream earns its 5 here because the 4×6 ft canvas fills a primary wall without crowding it, and the deep madder and navy pull the room into a slow, unhurried intimacy that anchors evening conversation without dominating daylight hours.
Hotel lobby 5/5
The gold accents and oil-slick blue give this work the quiet drama a lobby needs to register across distance, and the liminal mood tells arriving guests they have stepped out of ordinary time, which is exactly the emotional threshold a lobby should provide.
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
- Ephemeral Atmosphere
- Palette
- Deep Madder · Deep Navy · Oil-Slick Blue · Deep Indigo · Smoky Purple · Gold · Blush · Forest Green · Muted White
- Weight
- About 45 lb
- Ready
- In the studio; delivery 6–10 weeks
Its ArtGram
ArtGram.Fork
- Texture2
- Form2
- Colour range3
- Palette1.4
- Contrast4.4
- Abstraction Quotient4
