July 17, 2025

We just rebuilt our office/studio wet bar, so I created a graphic in Adobe Illustrator for the back wall. Rendered as a print on aluminum backing (30 x 50), it’s sort of an homage inspired by Gene Davis, the D.C.-area artist famous for creating the Color Field series of vertically-striped paintings. Gene’s stripes were always meticulously painted solid colors; I used a series of gradients, and I really like them for our application.

The art world intelligentsia in New York had little, if any, appreciation for Color School, Color Field, or Gene Davis in particular. Their disdain for his work kept it from gaining the wider respect it should have received. That kind of elitism always struck me as especially endemic to precious NYC art gallery folk. The same people who turned art collecting into what it is today: soulless deal-making in the endless pursuit of pointless wealth.