Breach
Richard Pence
From the series In the Shadow of Fire
Acrylic and crackle medium on canvas
40 × 48 in
$4,000
A wall of grey and black, combed into deep vertical ridges, has been broken open across its middle. Through the opening a darker layer shows, its crackle split in red like embers. The marks in the relief, a starburst at the left, a pale crescent, thin vertical lines, were not planned as images; they came out of working the surface, and the painting leaves them unexplained.