Tall Building, 36" x 48" and Explosion of Color revels

and Explosion of Color revels in abundance

organized around a central vertical dark blue line

The interplay of saturated primaries (red

Nowak’s ability to use abstraction as emotional language aligns him with color field painters such as Helen Frankenthaler or Morris Louis

like festivity

Tall Building, 36" x 48" and Explosion of Color revelsSee more paintings from the Floating Color Collection. James Nowaks Tall Building, part of his Floating Color Collection, draws on the language of geometric abstraction to evoke architectural associations. Through the interplay of vertical and horizontal bars, punctuated by solid blocks of color, the composition suggests the skeletal outline of a skyscraper rising within an abstracted, borderless space. While rooted in abstraction, the painting