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Black & White · 2024
Politics
A Visual Dialogue Between Structure and Disruption
Available · in the studio, Phoenix
Order trying to contain chaos — one panel circles, the other breaks free. The painting doesn't take a side. It holds the feeling.
“Politics 2024 (Diptych)' drifts between vision and memory, holding the space where perception meets emotion.”
Politics is a large-scale diptych that speaks to the dissonance of our present moment. Created in the aftermath of the 2024 U.S. election, the piece captures the emotional turbulence of a world caught between repetition and rupture, form and unraveling.
The left panel is composed of concentric circles—precise, meditative, and restrained. These shapes suggest systems, cycles of speech, the echo of political discourse that loops but rarely resolves. They offer a sense of control, even calm—but underneath, a quiet tension builds.
In contrast, the right panel bursts into motion. Sweeping lines disrupt the symmetry, cutting across space with urgency and emotion. There’s a release here—a break from the orderly and a movement into something raw and unpredictable. The contrast between the two sides creates a powerful visual tension: one panel trying to contain, the other refusing to be held.
Rendered in black and white, the work strips away distraction to focus on energy, rhythm, and feeling. Layered textures emerge through mixed media techniques, adding depth and weight to the surface. The materials themselves become part of the message—repetitive, worn, fractured.
Politics doesn’t offer a stance or a solution. It offers an experience. A moment to feel the push and pull of modern discourse. The fatigue of repetition. The spark of change. The tension between holding on and letting go.
It is a reflection of the times—not literal, but visceral.
Where to see it. In person at RituStudio, Phoenix, by appointment. Represented by Jarrow & Goodman, Los Angeles.
The space it needs
- Wall
- At least 14 ft wide
- Ceiling
- 9 ft or more
- Light
- Any lighting — defined by value contrast
- Daylight
- Black, white and gray carry no warmth for the sun to push, so the diptych holds steady beside glass. At twelve feet, keep it out of a hard sun stripe that would light one panel and not the other.
Lives best in
Boardroom 5/5
Politics is the rare work that earns a score of 5 here: its formal diptych structure mirrors the logic of a divided table, its lampblack weight commands without ornamentation, and its theme of fatigue and the spark of change speaks directly to every decision made in the room.
Living room 4/5
At 12 feet wide, Politics anchors a living room the way a load-bearing wall anchors a house, its lampblack-and-muted-white diptych generating enough structural tension to organize every other object in the space around it.
Details
- Size
- 12 × 4 ft (W × H)
- Medium
- Mixed Media on canvas
- Finish
- Epoxy over mixed media. The resin lifts the color off the canvas and holds it forward, so the surface deepens as the light moves across the room.
- Year
- 2024
- Collection
- Black & White
- Palette
- Dark Gloss · Lampblack · Charcoal Gray · Deep Gray · Muted White
- Weight
- About 70 lb
- Ready
- In the studio; delivery 10–14 weeks
Its ArtGram
ArtGram.Trillium
- Texture3
- Form3
- Colour range1
- Palette4.5
- Contrast4.5
- Abstraction Quotient5
