Gordon Sizelove "Influence" Acrylic on Canvas, Abstract Radial Burst Painting in Green, Bay Area California Art, Original 20 X 20 Inches, 2026

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Several radial bursts of olive, teal, cobalt and leaf green open across the square like seed heads, crossed by curved … Read more Several radial bursts of olive, teal, cobalt and leaf green open across the square like seed heads, crossed by curved arcs and bands of orange, rose and sky blue that sweep over them as if orbits were passing through a garden. Strokes taper toward the centers where they converge, and the overlapping curves create a layered, almost woven depth. Sizelove's patterns shift between biomorphic organisms seen through a microscope, the mottled floor of a forest and objects drifting through deep space, and here all three seem present in a single glance. Orange and pink flicker through the cooler greens, keeping the colors lively against one another.

The mix of greens, blues and warm accents makes it adaptable above a sofa, a dining sideboard or a bedroom dresser. It pairs naturally with olive velvet, saddle leather, walnut and indigo textiles, and with plants, whose leaf shapes echo the radiating strokes. At twenty inches square it has presence on a wall alone, and its energy balances quiet, neutral rooms.

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