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Black & White · 2024
Remodeling Emotional Space
Available · in the studio, Phoenix
Plans half-erased, walls shifting — the energy of becoming held inside a monochrome surface that has been through the process.
“Remodeling' balances chaos and clarity, each stroke a step through abstraction’s wild terrain.”
Remodeling (2024) is a reflection on change — not cosmetic, but structural. This 72 x 48 inch oil painting from the Black and White Collection explores interior reconstruction through dense texture, bold gesture, and the raw grammar of black, white, and everything in between.
The surface is layered and scraped, as if past decisions are being reconsidered mid-stroke. Broad swaths of ivory are cut by black geometric shapes that feel architectural — walls shifting, windows redefined, plans half-erased. Streaks of charcoal gray and hints of exposed canvas suggest both demolition and rebirth.
I painted Remodeling in parallel with changes in my own space — rearranging not just furniture but habits, intentions, expectations. The canvas echoed the mess and clarity that come with reevaluation. What began as a composition broke down, then rebuilt itself through touch and intuition.
This work resonates with Pierre Soulages’ noir explorations and Sean Scully’s structural paintings, though mine is more about fluidity within the frame — about letting plans fail beautifully.
Remodeling doesn’t offer a final form. It holds the energy of becoming — of living through the undoing.
Where to see it. In person at RituStudio, Phoenix, by appointment. Represented by Jarrow & Goodman, Los Angeles.
The space it needs
- Wall
- At least 6 ft wide
- Ceiling
- 9 ft or more
- Light
- Any lighting — value contrast drives composition
- Daylight
- Ivory and black hold steady in any daylight. Low sun across the surface brings up the half-erased texture, though full glare on the wall will flatten the gray passages between them.
Lives best in
Office 5/5
Remodeling Emotional Space earns its highest score here because the daily rhythm of a workspace mirrors the painting's own argument: that undoing and rebuilding are not disruptions but the actual work, visible in every seam of charcoal gray.
Living room 4/5
A four-by-six-foot field of graphite and charcoal gray reads as quiet from across the room but rewards the sustained looking that living rooms invite, where the painting's structural undoing becomes a slow, compelling conversation.
Details
- Size
- 4 × 6 ft (W × H)
- Medium
- Oil on canvas
- Year
- 2024
- Collection
- Black & White
- Palette
- Graphite Black · Spectral Gray · Charcoal Gray
- Weight
- About 40 lb
- Ready
- In the studio; delivery 6–8 weeks
Its ArtGram
ArtGram.Corona
- Texture4
- Form5
- Colour range1
- Palette4.2
- Contrast3.2
- Abstraction Quotient4.5
