Everybody Smiles At You
acrylic, paint sticks, ink
30" x 40" x 2" on gallery wrapped canvas
Everybody Smiles At You - Original Painting
This painting radiates with bold contrasts and layered intensity. A vivid blue backdrop anchors the work, creating a sense of depth and vastness, like an endless sky or body of water. Against it, explosive bursts of pink, violet, and green erupt outward, their jagged textures and tangled marks suggesting both growth and chaos like blooming flowers caught in turbulence.
Over these eruptions, thick white lines sweep and loop across the surface, their dripping edges giving the sense of graffiti or chalk melting in the rain. These marks act as both a veil and a framework, holding the chaos together while also obscuring parts of it. The interplay between control and release is palpable: the structured gestures of white against the unpredictable explosions of color.
There’s a dual energy here, joyous and unruly, yet heavy with undertones. It feels like a portrait of contradictions: brightness edged with vulnerability, confidence dripping with imperfection, a reminder that even the boldest smiles can mask turbulence beneath.