Teng Fei's Enchanted Bouquet

A monumental canvas by John Richard, the Enchanted Bouquet arrives in an expansive seventy-three-inch vertical field that commands a wall with the authority of a collected work. Teng Fei's hand moves through oil paint with an effortless romanticism, layering blooms against the picture plane in a composition that reads equally as landscape and reverie. The silver champagne frame — worked in wood — lends a soft luminosity to the perimeter, neither overpowering the image nor retreating from it, but holding the painting the way a fine mount holds a jewel.