Gordon Sizelove "Engaged I" Acrylic on Canvas, Abstract Pointillist Painting in Orange Yellow, Bay Area California Art, Original 20 X 16 Inches, 2024

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Round dots of orange, tangerine, butter yellow, cream and burgundy fill the canvas in a warm, even field, the darker … Read more Round dots of orange, tangerine, butter yellow, cream and burgundy fill the canvas in a warm, even field, the darker burgundy dots sitting between the brighter ones like seeds in a sunflower head. Overlaps create new shades of amber and peach, and the cream dots lift out of the field like small points of light. The surface glows from corner to corner, with the warm colors seeming to pulse gently. Sizelove places spots of color along a drawn, curving line and keeps adding until the canvas is full, varying each form on purpose, and the steady rhythm here gives the painting a friendly, humming presence.

A warm vertical canvas for a kitchen, a dining room, a hallway or a bedroom that needs sunshine. Orange and yellow look rich beside walnut, cognac leather, cream plaster, terracotta and denim, and they brighten gray or blue rooms. At sixteen by twenty inches it hangs well above a console or a bench, and it pairs nicely with a cooler neighbor.

Acrylic on Canvas, 20 x 16 x 1 in (50.8 × 40.6 × 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