Tall Building, 36" x 48" Nowak’s ability to use abstraction

Nowak’s ability to use abstraction as emotional language aligns him with color field painters such as Helen Frankenthaler or Morris Louis

it captures the sensation of motion suspended in time—an “electric” charge made visible

like festivity

while the red and black strokes punctuate like percussion

a moment of renewal and celebration

Tall Building, 36" x 48" Nowak’s ability to use abstractionSee more paintings from the Floating Color Collection. James Nowaks Tall Building, part of his Floating Color Collection, draws on the language of geometric abstraction to evoke architectural associations. Through the interplay of vertical and horizontal bars, punctuated by solid blocks of color, the composition suggests the skeletal outline of a skyscraper rising within an abstracted, borderless space. While rooted in abstraction, the painting