Orange Grid, 22" x 28", oil on paper, 1985. Artist's collection.

The grid in this painting--as was also the case in Blue Grid--was hand drawn. The grid retains its logical quadrilateral appearance, but the inexactness of the hand-rendered grid brings a quality of distorted space which is organic by nature and conceptually linked to my usage of the grid as a metaphorical element of the composition. There is a four-square linear sequence (left to right) of alternating colors which also creates a diagonal pattern of color throughout the grid. There are two gray spheres positioned at difference coordinates of the grid on the left of the composition. From this point forward, the grid's prominence in the composition becomes diminished and the spheres will begin to take on a more predominant role.