Sunshine, 36" x 48"

See more paintings from the Floating Color Collection. James Nowak’s Sunshine, from his Floating Color Collection, distills light and color into an abstract geometric meditation. True to the series’ thematic core, the work juxtaposes verticals, horizontals, and squares against a stark white background, creating both buoyancy and tension. While its title suggests warmth and radiance, the composition avoids literal depiction, instead reimagining the sensation of sunlight as an interaction between color, space, and balance. The arrangement of forms in Sunshine is both sparse and intentional. A dominant vertical blue bar slightly left of center provides structural weight, acting like a stabilizing axis. Above, a red horizontal bar floats, offering counterbalance and creating a cross-like relationship with the blue vertical. On the right, a lighter cyan vertical and a teal horizontal echo the main forms but at reduced intensity, widening the sense of spatial openness. Meanwhile, the black