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Abstract Inquiry · 2023
Pentium Chip
Available · in the studio, Phoenix
The chip as landscape — the Pentium's circuit board translated to abstract geography, the inside of the machine made strange.
Pentium Chip (2023) is a visual homage to complexity — a painting that translates the logic and chaos of circuitry into an abstract poetic field. This 48 x 48 inch mixed media work from the Playful Abstraction Collection plays with geometry, layering, and digital symbolism in tactile form.
The surface is gridded but irregular — interlaced lines, color-coded blocks, metallic ink, and traces of binary-like patterns. Tones of electric green, graphite black, silver, and data-glow blue pulse across the canvas, mimicking the rhythm of a processor thinking, stalling, surging.
I created Pentium Chip as a nod to the invisible architecture of modern life — how silicon and logic gates govern our world while remaining unseen. But this painting isn’t technical. It’s intuitive. It maps sensation, not code.
The work resonates with the aesthetic of Casey Reas, co-creator of Processing, whose generative artworks translate software into abstraction. Like Reas, I am interested in what happens when algorithms become emotional — when structure breaks into expression.
Pentium Chip doesn’t explain technology. It interprets it. It lets the grid breathe, stutter, misfire. The result is not a diagram, but a dream of one.
As part of the Playful Abstraction Collection, this piece celebrates the strange intimacy we now have with systems. It doesn’t warn or glorify. It just listens, clicks, and glows.
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 preferred — oil layers shift through the day
- Daylight
- Charcoal and graphite with a line of ultramarine make a palette that barely registers temperature, so it holds steady in strong Arizona light. Its crisp contrast stays legible even across from a window.
Lives best in
Living room 5/5
Pentium Chip earns a 5 here because its six-foot width and slow charcoal-to-ultramarine breath need a room that lives around it, not past it.
Hotel lobby 4/5
The graphite grid stuttering across burnt umber grounds stops a lobby walker mid-stride, which is exactly right, though the somber mood asks more of guests than most properties want to ask.
Details
- Size
- 4 × 6 ft (W × H)
- Medium
- Oil on canvas
- Year
- 2023
- Collection
- Abstract Inquiry
- Palette
- Charcoal Gray · Graphite Black · Burnt Umber · Pale Gray · Ultramarine
- Weight
- About 45 lb
- Ready
- In the studio; delivery 8–12 weeks
Its ArtGram
ArtGram.Fork
- Texture2
- Form3
- Colour range2
- Palette3.8
- Contrast4
- Abstraction Quotient-1.5
