Gordon Sizelove "Detached I" Acrylic on Canvas, Abstract Pointillist Painting in Violet Purple, Carmel California Art, Original 16 X 20 Inches, 2025

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Round dots of violet, lavender, plum brown, pale lilac and white overlap across the canvas, the deeper plums and the … Read more Round dots of violet, lavender, plum brown, pale lilac and white overlap across the canvas, the deeper plums and the lighter lilacs trading places across the surface. Each dot has softly irregular edges, and where two overlap a new shade appears, giving the field a layered, velvety depth. The colors stay close in value, so the painting reads at first as a haze of purple and then resolves into individual spots. Sizelove places spots of color along a drawn, curving line and varies each form deliberately, and the quiet repetition gives the canvas a distant, meditative calm, true to its title.

A calm vertical canvas for bedrooms, studies, bathrooms and quiet living spaces. Purple and lilac pair well with gray linen, white bedding, silver, pale oak and sage green, and they add depth to pale walls. At twenty by sixteen inches it hangs well above a dresser, a console or a bench, and it can be paired with warmer pieces for contrast.

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