Original Painting: Untitled by James Edward Scherbarth

Out of the dark, a glowing grid of yellow and pink, like a lantern seen through fog.

Original Painting: Untitled is an oil and cold wax work on paper by James Edward Scherbarth (1949-2021), dated 2021 and signed and dated en verso 2-17-2021. Cold wax lets paint be built thick and then worked back with tools, so a surface can feel more excavated than painted. Here a deep charcoal ground covers almost everything, warming to a smoky red at the upper left. Across the center floats a tilted, boat-like shape drawn in scratchy hatching of lemon yellow, pink and red. Purples drift through the darkness below. The image is 11 inches wide and 14 high.

Untitled, but hardly short of things to say.