The Green Square, 36" x 48"

 See more paintings from the Floating Color Collection. James Nowak’s The Green Square, part of his Floating Color Collection, demonstrates the artist’s continuing fascination with geometric abstraction, color dynamics, and spatial tension. In this work, Nowak reduces the visual language to a handful of bold, rectangular forms, arranging them in a way that suggests both order and improvisation. The green square at the center is more than a compositional element—it becomes the conceptual anchor around which the other forms orbit, mediating the painting’s dialogue between color, balance, and meaning. At first glance, the composition seems deceptively simple: vertical and horizontal rectangles intersect and overlap within an expansive white field. However, their placement creates a rhythm of alignment and misalignment. The central green square is directly attached to a vertical blue bar, forming a cross-like axis. To the left, a sky-blue vertical intersects with a red horizontal, echoi