Abstract Painting by Wesley Kimler: "White Room #8", Framed

One big black shape leans across the sheet like it owns the place.

White Room #8 is a framed abstract charcoal on paper by Wesley Kimler, from the United States, made around 2003. Charcoal is among the oldest drawing materials, valued because it can go from a whisper of gray to a dense, velvety black in a single stroke. A heavy, rounded black form tilts across a pale, scuffed ground, ringed with thin loops of line and trailed by a curved, feathery stroke. Smudges, grid-like rubbings and torn-looking edges give the paper its own history. A plain white frame holds it all. It is 62 inches wide and 60 high.

The white room has one very confident guest.