Tall Building, 36" x 48" The white background becomes an

The white background becomes an active force

emblematic of Nowak’s ability to capture the feeling of light and joy in abstraction

The black areas have the quality of negative space — an absence or silence — while the red feels like energy or atmosphere pressing in

Thunderstorm achieves more than representation: it channels the elemental essence of storm itself

The brushstrokes are broad

Tall Building, 36" x 48" The white background becomes anSee more paintings from the Floating Color Collection. James Nowaks Tall Building, part of his Floating Color Collection, draws on the language of geometric abstraction to evoke architectural associations. Through the interplay of vertical and horizontal bars, punctuated by solid blocks of color, the composition suggests the skeletal outline of a skyscraper rising within an abstracted, borderless space. While rooted in abstraction, the painting