Shaye Rawson's Strata

Composed with the studied confidence of a painter who understands architecture as well as pigment, Shaye Rawson's Strata arrives as a canvas of considerable scale — nearly five feet wide and well over four feet tall — commanding a wall with the quiet authority of a museum acquisition. The gold finish suffuses the work with a luminous warmth that shifts with ambient light, lending the piece an almost atmospheric depth that rewards a second and third look. Within the John Richard collection, it occupies that rare position where fine art and interior design cease to negotiate and simply agree.