Colorfields at Gotham West

John Platt is a New York City-based abstract painter. The palettes and energy of his large-scale paintings draw from an inexhaustible set of inspirations: art history, fashion, movies and television, historical photographs, design, and the natural world. This series focuses most intensely on interactions of color, painted in vertical stripes that form linear compositions. The subtle shifts in speed, texture, and density of his mark-making give rise to entirely different moods and sensations from piece to piece, suggesting limitless possibilities and outcomes in these works.