3D Abstraction

Medium: Acrylic on Canvas
Size: 6ft x 5ft
Creation Date: 2021
Collection: Ephemeral Atmosphere

3D Abstraction (2021) is part of my Ephemeral Atmosphere Collection, a series that explores perception, movement, and dimensionality through layered surface and spatial disruption. Created in mixed media on a 72 x 60 inch canvas, this piece plays with the illusion of depth — inviting the eye to step into the painting and wander through texture, tone, and form.

Built through a series of sculptural gestures, 3D Abstraction resists flatness. Instead, the canvas feels inhabited. Carved lines, raised paint, and layered mediums create shadows and recesses that shift depending on light and angle. This work lives in that ambiguous space between painting and object — a plane animated by presence and perception.

In spirit, it resonates with the works of Julie Mehretu, particularly her ability to build architectural spaces through mark, density, and motion. Like Mehretu, I’m interested in how abstraction can evoke place — not as geography, but as experience.

Here, the viewer becomes a participant. The eye moves, the body responds. The work asks to be read not just visually, but spatially — as a terrain of thought and sensation. The textures hold memories of movement. Each mark is a residue of action, a fleeting atmosphere made tactile.

3D Abstraction is an invitation to explore what lies beneath and beyond the surface — a meditation on depth, shadow, and the possibility of presence in dimensional abstraction.