Tall Building, 36" x 48" this painting situates joy as

this painting situates joy as something primordial—an inseparable part of creation itself

The dominant turquoise and aquamarine create a cooling ground

energy and resistance

and dissolving into one another

Tall Building, 36" x 48" this painting situates joy asSee 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