The Piano 1985

Alexander Bogen made "The Piano," and it’s a painting where geometry meets feeling. The colors are quiet, mostly creams and blacks, but then there's that splash of red, like a sudden chord. The paint isn't trying to hide itself; you can see the texture, the way the brush moved. Look at the bottom left corner, at the scribble of white lines against the dark. It’s like Bogen was thinking out loud, right there on the canvas. It reminds me a little of some of the early work of Sean Scully, where simple shapes carry a lot of emotional weight. But Bogen has his own voice, a kind of searching, unfinished quality. Art isn’t about answers, it's more about the questions we ask along the way.