Painting on Board by Abel Vazquez: Abstract

Arches, lenses and blocks stack up in purple and rust like a city remembered in a dream.

Abstract is a painting on board by Abel Vazquez, ca. 1991, in mixed media on board. Geometric abstraction builds its effects from color and shape alone, leaving the viewer to find the architecture or the figure. Here interlocking arches and rounded forms in violet, plum and brick red meet pointed green lenses where curves overlap. A slate blue sky fills the upper right. The surface is combed in fine swirling texture throughout. A signature sits at lower right. It is 27.75 inches wide and 19.75 high.

Everything fits, though nobody can quite say what it is.