Red Space: The Seduction and Violence of Color
Medium: Acrylic on Canvas
Size: 4ft x 4ft
Creation Date: 2020
Collection: Geometric Splendor
Red Space (2020) is part of my Geometric Splendor Collection, created during a time when I was deeply immersed in exploring the emotional gravity of singular color fields. This 48 x 48 inch acrylic on canvas is unapologetically drenched in red — a red that hums, suffocates, seduces, and confronts.
The work rejects distraction. There are no decorative elements, only the insistence of red layered upon red. Subtle variations in tone emerge upon closer viewing — flashes of crimson, rust, and scarlet — creating a quiet yet powerful vibration across the surface. The texture becomes the language of the painting, allowing the color to speak not just through hue but through depth, movement, and friction.
Red Space owes a dialogue to Anish Kapoor, whose exploration of pure color and void invites viewers into the experience of color as an almost physical force. Like Kapoor’s works that swallow the viewer into rich, velvety depths, Red Space demands an immersive encounter, forcing the viewer to confront the primal, bodily reactions that red elicits — desire, danger, hunger, violence.
But where Kapoor’s forms often recede into an infinite void, Red Space confronts the viewer head-on. It is a wall of feeling, an unflinching acknowledgment of color’s ability to overwhelm, to confront, and to seduce.
As part of the Geometric Splendor Collection, this painting is a meditation on the contradictions of red — its warmth and its warning, its capacity to energize and to exhaust.
