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“In 'Life is 3 Dimensional', abstraction dances gently with meaning, never arriving, always evolving.”

Life is 3 Dimensional (2024) is a playful assertion — a pop abstraction that reminds us how much we flatten, how much we overlook. This 48 x 48 inch mixed media work from the Ephemeral Atmosphere Collection pushes the visual language of depth, illusion, and surface into a bold, tongue-in-cheek composition.

At the center is a series of overlapping cubes — some painted, some etched, others layered with resin and foam. Bright colors — pink, cyan, chartreuse, jet black — pop against a white background fractured by faint gridlines. The whole piece reads like a spatial illusion from afar, but up close it’s sculptural — thick with material, intentional in disruption.

I made Life is 3 Dimensional after reflecting on how much of modern life is viewed on screens — flattened, reduced, mediated. This painting reclaims form. It insists on volume. It wants to be felt as much as seen.

There’s a wink to Patrick Caulfield and Peter Halley, artists who blend satire with strong formal control. Like them, I play with illusion not to trick the eye, but to wake it up.

Life is 3 Dimensional isn’t just a title. It’s a prompt — to step closer, see more, and remember that depth is always there.

Ritu Raj | Contemporary Abstract Painter | Phoenix

Ritu Raj is a contemporary abstract painter based in Phoenix, Arizona, working mostly at scale — canvases of five to eight feet. His practice runs in two bodies: Abstract Inquiry, in oil and acrylic, and Organic Movement, which replaces the brush with thread, using gravity and viscosity as compositional instruments. More than 260 works, collected across the US, Europe and Asia. He is the author of the forthcoming The Shape of Seeing and The Unalgorithmic Self.

https://www.rituart.com/
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