Gordon Sizelove "Earth Morning" Acrylic on Canvas, Soft Radial Abstract Painting in Blush Pink, Bay Area California Art, Original 20 X 20 Inches, 2026

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Peach, powder blue, butter yellow and lavender gray dashes sweep in long curves from a point at the upper left … Read more Peach, powder blue, butter yellow and lavender gray dashes sweep in long curves from a point at the upper left to another at the lower right, forming a soft sphere that glows like early light on a dandelion head. The palette stays pale and chalky throughout, with the weave of the canvas faintly visible beneath the paint. Sizelove starts each work with a flowing pencil line and lays the color along it, and the tapered, petal-like marks here follow those lines so closely that the whole surface seems to turn slowly in place. He describes a painting as an object in its own right, and this one has the calm of a thing simply present.

A gentle square for rooms that want color without volume: a bedroom above a linen headboard, a pale entry beside a round mirror, or a quiet reading corner. The blush and powder tones work with cream bouclé, whitewashed oak, rattan and soft gray walls. Over a small console with a ceramic lamp it brightens a corner without effort, and in morning light the pastel shades drift from pink toward gold.

Acrylic on Canvas, 20 x 20 x 1.5 in (50.8 × 50.8 × 3.8 cm). Unframed.

Sizelove begins each acrylic painting by drawing a curved, flowing pencil line across the canvas, mapping the proportions and movement of the composition. He then places spots and strokes of color along those lines to reinforce them, and keeps adding color until the canvas is full. Overlapping marks eclipse one another and mix new colors where they meet, and he varies each form on purpose so the surface feels natural. The result is a shallow, topographical field of color.

Gordon Sizelove (b. 1953, Boston) is a San Francisco painter who works in acrylic, pastel, charcoal and pencil. Raised in Springfield and Worcester, Massachusetts, he moved west in 1972 to attend the San Francisco Art Institute, studying with Sam Tchakalian, Julius Hatofsky, Tom Holland and Robert Hudson, and earned his MFA in Painting in 1979.

After a teaching credential from San Francisco State University, he taught art in the San Francisco public schools for decades, including students with dyslexia, and has painted full time since retiring in 2014. His work, shown in a 2023 Inter-Society Color Council exhibition in Rochester, builds interlocking patterns from spots and strokes of color placed along a drawn, curving line, in the spirit of Buckminster Fuller's geodesic structures and with a long interest in the consciousness of perception. He lives and works in San Francisco's South of Market district. See less