Untitled (February 4) 1967

Lorser Feitelson made this painting "Untitled (February 4)" with careful consideration of form and colour. I'm imagining Feitelson in his studio, probably in California, where he spent most of his life, carefully layering these colors – that intense red, a kind of cool magenta, and the sharp green against a dark, grounding black. He's playing with curvilinear forms, these almost organic shapes. There's something very deliberate about their placement. It looks like they are about to touch but never do. Feitelson's paintings often deal with a sense of movement and stillness existing simultaneously. These works are part of an ongoing conversation between artists across time. I feel a kind of kinship, looking at this and feeling the possibilities inherent to painting. It is a form of embodied expression and offers so many interpretations.