Red and Silver

Medium: Acrylic on Canvas
Size: 6ft x 6ft
Creation Date: 2024
Collection: The Pulse of Life

Red and Silver (2024) is an exercise in contrast — in tone, texture, and emotional pull. This 72 x 72 inch acrylic painting from the The Pulse of Life Collection places two powerfully expressive colors in rhythmic opposition: bold, warm red and reflective, cool silver.

The canvas is divided into asymmetrical planes. One side glows with multiple reds — crimson, vermilion, soft rose — applied in dense brushwork and broad swaths. The silver side is smoother, built with metallic paint and palette knife, catching light at every angle. At their meeting point, the colors scrape, interrupt, and harmonize.

I painted Red and Silver as a meditation on relational energy — how two forces can oppose and still coexist. The red evokes passion, heat, blood. The silver reflects, cools, and deflects. Together, they create a dynamic equilibrium.

The work recalls the elemental simplicity of Barnett Newman and the reflective minimalism of John McCracken. But here, emotion is embedded in material — not transcendent, but present.

Red and Silver is not a balance. It is a conversation — unresolved, alive, necessary.