Gordon Sizelove "Pastoral Eyescape Ii" Acrylic on Canvas, Abstract Pointillist Dot Painting in Green, Bay Area California Art, Statement Artwork, 2024

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Overlapping round dots of emerald, forest green, mint and lime yellow cover the canvas in a rich, leafy field, the … Read more Overlapping round dots of emerald, forest green, mint and lime yellow cover the canvas in a rich, leafy field, the darker greens settling like shade beneath the paler ones. Each dot is a single deliberate touch of paint, and where it eclipses its neighbor a new green appears, so the surface looks as if sunlight were filtering through a canopy. Sizelove's patterns shift between biomorphic organisms, forest floors and drifting objects, and this canvas feels like a view straight down onto the woods. The title joins pasture and sight, and the field is calm, lush and full of fine detail.

A lush green for a home office, a kitchen, a bedroom or a sunroom. It works with dark green velvet, white walls, light oak, rattan and leather, and it enhances rooms with plants. At sixteen by twelve inches it fits above a console, beside a window or in a grouping of small works, and it adds depth to a wall without taking over the room.

Acrylic on Canvas, 16 x 12 x 0.5 in (40.6 × 30.5 × 1.3 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