Gordon Sizelove "Kore's Aura I" Acrylic on Canvas, Abstract Pointillist Dot Painting in Teal Blue, Carmel California Art, Statement Artwork, 2025

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Round dots of teal, turquoise, lime yellow, lavender and navy overlap across the canvas, arranged in faint concentric ripples that … Read more Round dots of teal, turquoise, lime yellow, lavender and navy overlap across the canvas, arranged in faint concentric ripples that spread outward from the center like rings on water. Each dot is a single deliberate touch of paint with softly irregular edges, and where two overlap a new shade appears, so the field has a layered depth. The lime and lavender flicker between the cooler teals like light through water, and the surface glows evenly from corner to corner. Sizelove lets his overlapping spots eclipse one another, and the soft ripple of that overlap gives this canvas the feeling suggested by its title, a quiet radiance spreading from within.

A cool, glowing vertical canvas for bedrooms, bathrooms, entries and reading rooms. Teal and lavender suit white linen, pale oak, brass and gray plaster, and they enrich rooms with deep blue or green furnishings. At twenty by sixteen inches it hangs well above a console or a bench, and it can be paired with a second canvas for a quiet, colorful pairing.

Acrylic on Canvas, 16 x 20 x 1 in (40.6 × 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