Action in Yellow
Richard Pence
From the series In the Shadow of Fire
Acrylic on canvas
30 × 24 in
$2,400
A single throw of cadmium yellow across a flat charcoal field. Everything on the canvas landed in that one motion and has been left exactly as it fell: the main arc, where the paint stands up in a thick ridge and breaks into spray at its edges; the thin line looping back at the left, made by the drawback of the arm; and the drops below, from the bounce when the arm stopped short at full stretch. Up close the splatter still records the speed and direction of the throw.