Delicate Spring I 24" x 24"

See more art from the 2025 New Works James Nowak’s Delicate Spring I, part of the 2025 New Works Collection, embraces abstraction as a language of seasonal renewal and human emotion. Painted in a vibrant palette of yellow, red, orange, and soft blue, the work reflects an energetic yet fragile interplay between chaos and balance. At once celebratory and introspective, the painting situates itself within the lineage of gestural abstraction, while carrying forward a distinctly contemporary optimism. The most immediate impression of Delicate Spring I is its chromatic intensity. Against a sky-blue background, sweeping strokes of lemon yellow radiate across the canvas, suggesting sunlight piercing through early spring air. Fiery reds and earthy browns complicate this sense of clarity, introducing both warmth and weight. The tension between lightness (blue, yellow) and density (red, brown, black accents) mirrors spring itself—a season of fragile beginnings interwoven with reminders of winter