Something happened when you saw this. What was it?
Geometric Splendor · 2021
Red & More
Tensions of Hue
Painted over. The canvas now carries another painting.
Red and everything it pulls toward it — geometric tensions of hue when one color refuses to be alone in the room.
Red & More (2021) is a response — a counterweight to restraint. Where Red (Minimalist) whispered, Red & More declares. This 48 x 48 inch acrylic painting from the Geometric Splendor Collection expands a singular focus into a layered field of gesture, contrast, and motion.
At its core, this piece asks: what lies beyond minimalism? What happens when a controlled surface begins to unravel? The red remains — bold, grounding — but it is no longer alone. Blues rush in. Charcoal lines scrape the surface. Light intervenes.
This painting is about generosity. About allowing the surface to open up, to welcome interruption, to hold complexity. The geometry here is not rigid. It flexes, responds, breathes. It’s abstraction in dialogue — not just between colors, but between restraint and release.
The piece finds kinship with the work of Etel Adnan, especially her landscapes that balance structure with feeling. Like Adnan, I’m interested in how emotional resonance can be held within formal simplicity — how shapes become sentences, and color becomes mood.
In Red & More, the red is still dominant. But it’s different now. Touched. Changed. It’s no longer the whole story — and that’s the point.
As part of the Geometric Splendor Collection, this painting represents expansion: a letting in of more. More color. More contrast. More feeling. It speaks to the complexity we often hide behind simplicity.
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
- Any lighting — geometric structure holds in all conditions
- Daylight
- The geometry stays crisp in any light, but the carmine and crimson burn noticeably hotter under west afternoon sun. For the reds as painted, a north or east wall; the phthalo green keeps its edge regardless.
Lives best in
Living room 5/5
Red & More rewards the room where people slow down. It changes on the second and
Hotel lobby 4/5
Strong enough to hold an arrival space, intimate enough to reward a longer look.
Details
- Size
- 4 × 4 ft (W × H)
- Medium
- Acrylic on canvas
- Year
- 2021
- Collection
- Geometric Splendor
- Palette
- Carmine · Crimson · Magenta Undertone · Maroon · Muted White · Phthalo Green · Deep Shadow
- Weight
- About 22 lb
Its reading
Read on the six dimensions of ArtGraph.
- Texture2
- Form2
- Colour range3
- Palette4.5
- Contrast4.6
- Abstraction Quotient0.5
