Abstract Painting: Signed to Lower Right 'Nee Chu'. Signed, Titled and Dated to Verso 'Julia Nee Chu Interval 1992', "Interval"

Nearly nine feet of paint that refused to stay where it was put.

Interval is an abstract painting in acrylic on canvas by Julia Nee Chu, from about 1992. Large abstract paintings like this are made to fill a viewer's field of vision in homes and public rooms, letting color and gesture do the work of a story. It is signed at the lower right, and signed, titled and dated on the back. Gold-brown disks and dark, pointed forms collect at the center. Looping red outlines swell above them, and blurred red masses bloom below. Paint runs down the surface in long drips over grey, blue and ochre. Eighty-three inches wide by 107 high.

An interval, it turns out, can take up an entire wall.