Mixed Media on Paper | Beyond the Veil by James Edward Scherbarth

White paint pushed thick across the sheet, with gray showing through like a window misted over.

Beyond the Veil is a mixed media on paper by James Edward Scherbarth, dated 2020 and signed and dated 09-22-2020 on the verso. Many abstract painters build layers and then scrape or cover them back, leaving earlier marks to show through. Here a tall block of white and pale gray paint covers most of the sheet, dragged and scraped so the texture shows. Underneath, a faint circle and fine pencil lines surface in places. A small dark patch at the upper right and black hatching at the lower left anchor the edges. It is 7 inches wide and 10 high.

What is on the other side is left, sensibly, to the imagination.