Teng Fei's Dappled Reflections II

A commanding presence at six feet wide and reaching toward six feet tall, Dappled Reflections II by John Richard is an original oil on framed canvas that commands a wall the way only truly scaled work can. The hand-painted surface moves with the layered luminosity particular to oil, light seeming to shift across the composition as the viewer moves through the room. A black wood frame contains the work with quiet authority, grounding the piece without competing with the painting's internal energy. This is the kind of acquisition that organizes a room around itself.