Gordon Sizelove "Visual Fusion" Acrylic on Canvas, Abstract Radial Globe Painting in Yellow, Carmel California Art, Original 20 X 20 Inches, 2026

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Fine, tapering strokes of yellow, red, cobalt, black, green and orange sweep around two poles, one near the top and … Read more Fine, tapering strokes of yellow, red, cobalt, black, green and orange sweep around two poles, one near the top and one at the bottom, until they form a tight globe that looks like a spinning top or a chrysanthemum seen from above. Because the strokes are so slender and so close, the colors blend at a distance into glowing yellows and oranges, then separate again into bright stripes up close. Sizelove begins with a drawn, curving line and places each mark along it, and the discipline of that method gives the surface its precision. The square canvas seems to hum with stored energy, bright but orderly.

Its warm, saturated palette suits rooms that welcome color: a living room above a sofa in gray or navy, a dining area, a kitchen nook or a creative workspace. Black metal, natural wood and white walls let it take the lead, while mustard, rust and blue textiles echo its range. At twenty inches square it carries across a room and still rewards a closer look.

Acrylic on Canvas, 20 x 20 x 1 in (50.8 × 50.8 × 2.5 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