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Black & White · 2022
Yoga with Kat
Available · in the studio, Phoenix
The body in discipline — black and white holding the specific quality of the body's intelligence in the poses it knows by heart.
Yoga with Kat (2022) is part of my Black and White Collection, a body of work that seeks clarity through contrast — light and shadow, stillness and strength. Painted in acrylic on a 72 x 60 inch canvas, this monochrome abstraction channels the fluid discipline of yoga through gestural forms and tonal tension.
Inspired by a session I observed with Kat, the subject is not rendered literally, but felt in movement — expressed through arcs, sweeps, and fields of stark black over soft white. There is no figure in the conventional sense; rather, there is presence. A breath. A balancing of opposing forces. The canvas becomes a space where gesture and grace hold conversation.
In spirit, this piece resonates with the meditative works of Agnes Martin, who often spoke of art as an expression of inner stillness. While Martin worked in delicate grids, I translate this search for calm through physical motion — using bold, physical marks to honor the poise and surrender embedded in Kat’s practice.
Yoga with Kat is an exploration of flow: mental, physical, visual. The viewer is invited not to decipher but to breathe with it — to feel the harmony between expansion and focus, action and peace. In its quiet energy, the painting offers a portrait not of a person, but of a practice.
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
- Any lighting — monochrome palette is lighting-agnostic
- Daylight
- Stark black and bone white at near-maximum contrast hold their shape in the brightest Arizona room and will not shift with the hour. Facing a window is fine; the figure reads from across the space.
Lives best in
Office 5/5
The bone white and ash gray field absorbs ambient office noise visually, while the understated tenderness in its form gives a private workspace a quality of quiet company that sustains focus across long hours.
Boardroom 5/5
Five feet wide and built from disciplined restraint, this work sets exactly the right register for a boardroom: its dark gloss accents read as authority, and the absence of color removes every distraction from the table.
Details
- Size
- 5 × 6 ft (W × H)
- Medium
- Acrylic on canvas
- Year
- 2022
- Collection
- Black & White
- Palette
- Pale Gray · Dark Gloss · Stark Black · Soft White · Ash Gray · Shadow Gray · Bone White
- Weight
- About 45 lb
- Ready
- In the studio; delivery 6–8 weeks
Its ArtGram
ArtGram.Trillium
- Texture2
- Form1
- Colour range1
- Palette3.1
- Contrast4.9
- Abstraction Quotient4
