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Black & White · 2024
Moon Over Lake
Available · in the studio, Phoenix
The night reflection — moon and lake in monochrome, the one subject that has always been black and white.
“Moon Over Lake' lets the unknown speak softly, inviting us into a landscape of shifting truths.”
Moon Over Lake (2024) is a monochrome poem — a large-scale meditation on stillness, reflection, and atmospheric depth. At 84 x 84 inches, this acrylic painting from the Black and White Collection uses minimal form to evoke expansive emotion.
The composition is sparse yet immersive. A soft white orb — the moon — hangs in the upper left, surrounded by inky black. Below, the lake appears only as suggestion: horizontal smudges, faint ripples, mirrored light. Negative space becomes active. Every mark is intentional, every edge softened by time and breath.
I painted Moon Over Lake late at night, under a real moon, with only ambient light in the studio. I wanted the surface to feel like silence — like a held breath. The painting became an act of quiet listening.
The work resonates with the spiritual minimalism of Agnes Martin and the meditative vastness of Hiroshi Sugimoto. But unlike those influences, this piece holds emotional tension — not serenity, but yearning.
Moon Over Lake is not about night. It’s about presence — about how the moon changes the water, and how we change in the act of looking.
Where to see it. In person at RituStudio, Phoenix, by appointment. Represented by Jarrow & Goodman, Los Angeles.
The space it needs
- Wall
- At least 10 ft wide
- Ceiling
- 10 ft or more
- Light
- Any lighting — monochrome palette is lighting-agnostic
- Daylight
- Black, lilac gray and muted white do not shift with the sun, so it sits comfortably near glass. High contrast keeps the moon and its reflection clear even in a bright Arizona room.
Lives best in
Office 5/5
The monochrome range and the painting's emotional temperature, solitude held rather than expressed, make it a disciplining presence on a large private office wall, where its silence enforces focus rather than demanding to be admired.
Boardroom 5/5
Moon Over Lake is exactly right here: the cool authority of graphite and deep gray commands a long table without decoration or sentiment, and the active negative space gives participants something that sharpens thinking rather than interrupting it.
Details
- Size
- 7 × 7 ft (W × H)
- Medium
- Acrylic on canvas
- Year
- 2024
- Collection
- Black & White
- Palette
- Graphite Black · Lilac Gray · Deep Gray · Pale Gray · Muted White
- Weight
- About 65 lb
- Ready
- In the studio; delivery 6–8 weeks
Its ArtGram
ArtGram.Fork
- Texture3
- Form3
- Colour range1
- Palette3.2
- Contrast4.3
- Abstraction Quotient-1
