Red (Minimalist)

Medium: Acrylic on Canvas
Size: 4ft x 4ft
Creation Date: 2021
Collection: Geometric Splendor

Red (Minimalist) (2021) is a meditation on presence through subtraction. As part of the Geometric Splendor Collection, this 48 x 48 inch acrylic painting explores what happens when we ask less of the eye and more of the heart.

At first glance, the painting appears simple — a field of red, tempered by clean edges and barely perceptible tonal shifts. But beneath that simplicity is discipline. The red is not loud. It is not violent. It is expansive, architectural, alive.

This work pays quiet homage to Carmen Herrera, whose minimalist compositions in pure color and line radiate control and stillness. Like Herrera, I am interested in how reduction becomes revelation — how less can be everything.

In Red (Minimalist), space is sacred. Form is quiet. There’s no narrative, no ornament, no gesture. Just red — layered, held, and tuned like an instrument. It’s not meant to excite. It’s meant to slow you down. To hold you in the act of looking.

This painting asks the viewer to trust restraint. It speaks of containment, of potential, of calm power. There is no climax — only continuity.

As part of the Geometric Splendor Collection, Red (Minimalist) serves as a counterpoint to louder compositions. It anchors. It exhales. It invites a different kind of attention — one rooted in patience, clarity, and reverence for the essential.