Contemporary Abstract Expressionism I Crossroads

This is a dark, intense painting organised around a cross. A vertical band of bright orange-red drops from the top right of centre, beside a streak of thick white. A horizontal line of the same red runs across the middle, deepening to crimson on the right, and a narrower red vertical continues below it. A thin strip of pink runs down from the top, left of centre. Around this structure, the colours are heavy and muted. Charcoal, slate blue, and near-black fill the right side and the lower left, dragged sideways and downward so the surface looks rubbed and worn. Two patches of olive and mustard yellow sit in opposite corners, upper left and lower right, and soften the darkness. In the lower right, thin black lines drip down over the yellow like rain on glass. White gathers at the centre where the lines cross, so the middle of the painting seems lit from within. It reads as a city at night, with red neon and wet streets, or a window with rain running down it and lights beyond.