Teng Fei’s Atlantic

At fifty-nine inches in height, Teng Fei's Atlantic commands a wall with the quiet authority of open water — its acrylic and paint worked across canvas by hand, layer upon considered layer. The composition carries that rare quality found in serious contemporary work: a surface that rewards prolonged looking, revealing depth and movement that no reproduction can fully translate. From John Richard's eponymous collection, it arrives as both object and atmosphere, as capable of anchoring a library as it is of completing a principal bedroom.