Painting by Eve Ozer: Signed & Dated Enverso

Two small stacks of black and turquoise bars hold an entire ochre field in place.

Sacred Grounds is a painting by Eve Ozer, made around 2018 in acrylic, pastel and graphite on Belgium linen, and signed and dated on the back. Mixed media of this kind lets a painter lay down veils of color and then draw back into them, so that the marks read like notes left on a wall. Warm washes of gold and rust drift across the surface. Scribbled loops and pale rectangles come up through them, with faint pink lines below. It measures 36 inches wide by 48 inches high.

The ground may be sacred. The handwriting stays private.