Exorcist
By Paul Jenkins
This moody abstract landscape feels like looking through layers of memory or atmosphere. Paul Jenkins builds up rich, dark tones of burgundy, brown, and purple that pool and blend across the canvas, interrupted by lighter passages of cream and gold that break through like distant light. The painting has an almost geological quality, as if we're witnessing sediment, water, and sky merging into one mysterious vista.
Jenkins was an American abstract expressionist who developed a unique technique of pouring thinned paint onto canvas and manipulating it while wet, allowing colors to flow and interact organically. The title "Exorcist" suggests a kind of purging or release, which makes sense when you consider his process. There's something both turbulent and contemplative here, a sense of forces being worked through and transformed. The painting invites you to see whatever you need to see in its depths, whether that's a stormy seascape, a canyon at twilight, or simply the beautiful chaos of paint doing what paint does best.