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Crazy Horse
Acrylic on Paper
30” x 22”
2024
This explosive composition abandons all restraint, embracing the chaotic vitality suggested by its title. Metallic pigments collide with violent reds and deep navy blues in a centrifugal burst that recalls both Pollock's all-over drip paintings and the gestural fury of Cy Twombly's late work. But where Pollock maintained a certain atmospheric evenness, this piece pulses with deliberate accumulation—layers of paint, lustrous metallics, and frenetic line work building toward an almost sculptural density at its core. The calligraphic marks and scribbled notations scattered across the surface hint at a private language or ritual, while white splatters function like visual static, disrupting any easy reading of the space. There's something unhinged yet controlled here, a calculated wildness that mirrors the untamed spirit of its namesake. The work refuses the contemplative distance of pure abstraction, instead pulling the viewer into its vortex of material excess and gestural abandon.
Acrylic on Paper
30” x 22”
2024
This explosive composition abandons all restraint, embracing the chaotic vitality suggested by its title. Metallic pigments collide with violent reds and deep navy blues in a centrifugal burst that recalls both Pollock's all-over drip paintings and the gestural fury of Cy Twombly's late work. But where Pollock maintained a certain atmospheric evenness, this piece pulses with deliberate accumulation—layers of paint, lustrous metallics, and frenetic line work building toward an almost sculptural density at its core. The calligraphic marks and scribbled notations scattered across the surface hint at a private language or ritual, while white splatters function like visual static, disrupting any easy reading of the space. There's something unhinged yet controlled here, a calculated wildness that mirrors the untamed spirit of its namesake. The work refuses the contemplative distance of pure abstraction, instead pulling the viewer into its vortex of material excess and gestural abandon.