A cool wash of blue and violet, dotted with soft impressionist blooms, gives way at the center to a hot eruption of orange, red, and gold — color behaving almost like flame caught against sky. Over it all, loose black brushwork whips and scatters like windblown branches or cinders in motion, the kind of mark-making that comes from the arm, not the wrist. Wildfire Dance holds its heat and its calm in the same frame: a serene, dappled background pressed right up against something that looks like it’s actively burning, with the black gestural strokes doing the work of wind — pushing flame and color both into motion. Among the most physical, unrestrained pieces in the catalog, closer in spirit to Coil and Blaze than to the studio’s quieter work.
A cool wash of blue and violet, dotted with soft impressionist blooms, gives way at the center to a hot eruption of orange, red, and gold — color behaving almost like flame caught against sky. Over it all, loose black brushwork whips and scatters like windblown branches or cinders in motion, the kind of mark-making that comes from the arm, not the wrist. Wildfire Dance holds its heat and its calm in the same frame: a serene, dappled background pressed right up against something that looks like it’s actively burning, with the black gestural strokes doing the work of wind — pushing flame and color both into motion. Among the most physical, unrestrained pieces in the catalog, closer in spirit to Coil and Blaze than to the studio’s quieter work.
