Tall Building, 36" x 48" in this context

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Thunderstorm achieves more than representation: it channels the elemental essence of storm itself

The black areas have the quality of negative space — an absence or silence — while the red feels like energy or atmosphere pressing in

Tall Building, 36" x 48" in this contextSee more paintings from the Floating Color Collection. James Nowaks Tall Building, part of his Floating Color Collection, draws on the language of geometric abstraction to evoke architectural associations. Through the interplay of vertical and horizontal bars, punctuated by solid blocks of color, the composition suggests the skeletal outline of a skyscraper rising within an abstracted, borderless space. While rooted in abstraction, the painting