Large Light Abstract Painting in a Gild Frame by Wesley Johnson

In a poetic gesture and controlled chaos, this artwork by American painter Wesley Johnson navigates between dissolution and recomposition, offering an immersive, rhythmic exploration. Shapes and lines fade away only to reemerge with renewed clarity, teetering between the elusive and the assertive. Its lyrical energy is anchored in the multiple legacies of post-war expressionist abstraction as if suspended and celebrating becoming rather than completion. Raw and sincere, it rejects the superfluous to focus on the essential: the relationship between gesture, matter, and space. Johnson employs an intuitive and deliberate style here, where every movement extends from an inner impulse. Tense, nervous strokes intersect while floating masses introduce zones of calm and density. Light permeates the work, unfolding in beams that navigate between shadow and transparency, illuminating each layer with an intensity that lends it sculptural depth. This large oil painting belongs to the tradition of