2020 Collection
Exploring Abstraction
Transformative Abstraction: My 2020 Painting Journey
2020 was a year that altered everything — including the course of my artistic practice. During the long, disorienting months of lockdown, my San Francisco loft became more than a living space; it became a sanctuary, a studio, a place where I turned inward and outward at once. Cut off from the rhythms of the outside world, I returned to painting, a language I had first fallen in love with as a child watching my father’s artist friends in India.
In those first uncertain weeks, I started small — 2x2 foot canvases where gesture, texture, and acrylic color became vessels for unspoken emotions. But as my inner world expanded, so did my canvases, eventually growing to 5x5 foot works that filled my loft with layered fields of color, fractured forms, and playful, sometimes unruly, geometries.
Acrylic became my medium of choice, not just for its immediacy, but for its ability to hold contradictions — quick and deliberate, vibrant yet delicate, offering both control and surrender. Through layered applications, drips, and spontaneous marks, I processed the emotional weight of confinement, weaving in echoes of distant museum visits, childhood memories, and the chaos of the present.
The 2020 collection is not a diary of events, but a body of work that captures the tension between structure and collapse, between nostalgia and urgency, between presence and disappearance. Each painting — whether the stark restraint of Black Heart, the playful absurdity of Broccolini, or the fractured layers of Delta Variant — became an act of grounding, a record of a year when painting became both survival and celebration.
This collection marks the moment I fully embraced abstraction as a way of seeing, feeling, and transforming the world inside and around me.
“My Heart” Acrylic On Canvas 2020, 3ft x 3ft
![White Frame [SOLD]
Acrylic On Canvas
2020, 3ft x 3ft
Year: 2020,
Series: Black and White,
Medium: Acrylic On Canvas,
Size: 3ft. x 3ft.](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6644084a376da75ce5897871/df1564ab-c7fe-45b3-9863-0e05edd2d64b/white-frame-SOLD-2020-acrylic-painting-ritu-raj.png)
White Frame [SOLD] Acrylic On Canvas 2020, 3ft x 3ft
Weeping Future Acrylic On Canvas 2020, 5ft x 6ft
Storm Mixed Media on Canvas 2020, 6ft x 5ft
Selfie Mixed Media on Canvas 2020, 3ft x 3ft
Righteousness Mixed Media on Canvas 2020, 6ft x 4ft
Remains Mixed Media on Canvas 2020, 4ft x 4ft
Red Space Mixed Media on Canvas 2020, 4ft x 4ft
Organic Memories from Childhood Acrylic On Canvas 2020, 4ft x 3ft
Nameless Mixed Media on Canvas 2020, 4ft x 4ft
My World Acrylic On Canvas 2020, 6ft x 5ft
Mindful Craziness Acrylic On Canvas 2020, 6ft x 5ft
Migration Mixed Media on Canvas 2020, 3ft x 2ft
Layers of Reality or Not Mixed Media on Canvas 2020, 3ft x 3ft
Horizons as Possibility Mixed Media on Canvas 2020, 4ft x 4ft
DNA on Fire Mixed Media on Canvas 2020, 4ft x 4ft
Delta Variant Mixed Media on Canvas 2020, 6ft x 5ft
Deep Abstraction Acrylic On Canvas 2020, 5ft x 4ft
Coming Down From a High is Not Easy! Acrylic On Canvas 2020, 3ft x 2.5ft
Colorful Caterpillar Acrylic On Canvas 2020, 4ft x 3ft
Brown Frame Acrylic On Canvas 2020, 4ft x 3ft
Broccolini Acrylic On Canvas 2020, 4ft x 4ft
Blooming Rose in a Cold Night Mixed Media on Canvas 2020, 5ft x 4ft
Black Heart Acrylic On Canvas 2020, 2.5ft x 2.5ft
Black Frame Acrylic On Canvas 2020, 3ft x 3ft
Abstraction in Red Acrylic On Canvas 2020, 4ft x 3ft
Studio Journal: Reflections in Abstraction
Studio Journal: Reflections in Abstraction
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