Mark McDowell's Solstice

A large-scale canvas work of considerable presence, Solstice arrests the room with its commanding proportions — seventy-two inches tall and nearly five feet wide, it occupies the wall with the authority of architecture rather than ornament. Mark McDowell's acrylic hand renders light and movement in a way that feels simultaneously spontaneous and considered, the surface alive with the particular luminosity that only the medium can sustain at this scale. Offered through the John Richard collection, it is the rare work that does not merely fill a space but fundamentally reorders it.