This black-and-white pattern was a perceptual experiment intended to convey the social dissonance in 2025. In it, the black, white and shades of gray play off the horizontal lines and a diagonal cue to create an optical illusion. At the same time, they point to the various ways in which life, society, and even ideas about what reality is are uncertain or unpredictable. Continue reading “Uncertainty and Dissonance (2025)”
Gradations and Imperfections is a circular panel animated by a dynamic checkerboard pattern, rendered in a palette of rich blue and creamy beige squares. Perceptually, it’s diagonal grid evokes a sense of movement and playful disruption. Each square and stripe varies subtly in hue and texture, inviting close examination of the painting’s hand-painted qualities. Continue reading “Gradations and Imperfections (2025)”
Adding Dynamic to a Black-and-White Grid transforms a basic pattern parallel lines into a vibrant exploration of movement and contrast, using only the fundamental opposites of black and white to make its statement. The contrast in this monochromatic work does not produce a rigid image because the bold introduction of diagonal and intersecting lines are used to add energy to what began as an very static form. Thus, the composition as a whole balances the uniformity and formal qualities of a simple pattern with the disruption, evolution, and transformation within human life. Continue reading “Adding Dynamic to Black-and-White Lines (2025)”
Perceptual Study: Rectangular Abstraction in Blue, White, and Red (2015) uses a limited palette and rectilinear structure to explore how viewers perceive depth, rhythm, and spatial tension within a flat surface. It belongs to my series of “perceptual studies,” works that treat the canvas as a site for investigating visual cognition rather than for depicting recognizable objects.
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Undulating shades of black, pink, and silver, patterned to tease the viewer perceptually on close engagement. For variations on this theme, see Maquette #1 and Maquette #2.
Shades of blue, black, gray, and white are patterned to tease the viewer perceptually on close engagement. For variations on this theme, see Maquette #1 and Maquette #3.
Shades of blue, red, silver and black are patterned to tease the viewer perceptually on close engagement. For variations on this theme, see Maquette #2 and Maquette #3.
Perceptual Study 31124 is an optical illusion study that deliberately engages the viewer, shifting perception with each glance. Therefore, this work is less about static imagery and more about how the brain interprets ambiguous visual cues and luminosity, making it a dynamic perceptual experiment in which both the illusionary shifts and the color gradations remind us that perception is unstable, contingent, and deeply personal. Each encounter with the painting is unique, making the viewer an active participant in the artwork’s unfolding. Continue reading “Perceptual Study, 31124 (2020)”
A percept is impression of an object obtained by use of the senses.
This work is an early twentieth century painting that is a part of my Perception Studies series.
One of three cube studies by Amy Ione that evoke a cube using background cues.