Painting by Cheryle Rome-Beatty: La Granada

La Granada means the pomegranate. There is not one in sight, which is rather the point.

La Granada is an oil on paper by Cheryle Rome-Beatty, from Spain, about 2020, signed and dated on the reverse. Abstract painters often work on paper for its speed and its willingness to take a beating, scraping back and drawing into the surface as they go. Yellow and white dominate here, cut by black grids and bars and a gray block near the top. A few orange loops and strokes supply the only heat. It measures 30 inches wide and 22 high.

Somewhere in all that yellow, a fruit may be hiding.