VANTA - Retention XX - NO RESERVE

Retention — 60×40 cm (prêt à accrocher)

These paintings ship ready to hang, stretched on a wooden stretcher bar. Please note that the floater frame shown in some images is not included.

Retention is a painting series exploring what the eye holds onto after looking — the soft persistence of color and warmth on the retina, the way a glow can stay with you longer than its source. Where earlier works in First Light, Horizon, and Afterglow trace the arrival, spread, and lingering of luminosity, Retention turns inward, toward the quiet heat that remains: pinks settling into rose, blush dissolving into violet, warmth caught somewhere between the surface and the eye.

The works continue a conversation with James Turrell's investigations of perceptual space, and draw on the chromatic fields of Mark Rothko, the saturated immersions of Yves Klein, and the soft gradients of Wolfgang Tillmans' abstract photograms — artists for whom color, edge, and transition carry the weight that line and form do elsewhere.

Each canvas begins with thin, vibrant acrylic laid in layered fields. A wide brush is drawn across the surface in a single, repeated motion until the pigment thins to near-transparency, allowing the white of the canvas beneath to glow through. In some works the gesture bends or doubles back, pulling the soft halo into a distorted form — a body of warmth that seems to twist gently within its own light. Under certain lighting the paintings stop reading as paint entirely and seem lit from within. A heavy varnish finishes each work with a glossy, reflective skin that deepens the sense of looking into rather than at the surface.

Retention is a series about what stays — the slow, warm afterimage of color held quietly behind the eye, long after the looking is done.

Shipping:
This series of paintings ships stretched on a wooden stretcher bar and is basically ready to hang. The floater frame in the picture is not included, a similar style frame can easily be attached by the buyer if desired.
Measurements listed are those of the finished piece on the stretcher frame — the actual canvas fabric is larger (4-5 cm on each side) in case the buyer decides to change the included stretcher frame with a thicker one

Disclaimer:
Process photos included in the listing show studies and works in progress.