Sticking out

Medium: Acrylic on Canvas
Size: 6ft x 5ft
Creation Date: 2024
Collection: Black and White

Sticking out (2024) is a painting about presence — the kind that cannot be absorbed, subdued, or simplified. This 72 x 60 inch acrylic work from the Black and White Collection asserts itself through stark contrast, angular form, and the unapologetic visual tension of not fitting in.

At its center is a bold shape — oblong, tilted — cutting across a field of stark black. The edges are uneven, the corners abrupt. Around it, white space refuses to recede, forming a jagged frame that seems to push the shape further forward. Texture varies: flat paint meets drybrush, meets impasto.

I painted Sticking out in response to a conversation about conformity — about what it means to be visible, uncomfortable, and true. The form here is not trying to belong. It’s asserting its presence, even if awkwardly.

This work shares DNA with Kazimir Malevich’s Suprematist forms and the defiant geometry of Carmen Herrera, but mine is more about tension than harmony.

Sticking out doesn’t ask to be understood. It demands space. It refuses to disappear.