Baroque Vertical Color Columns in Liquid Abstraction - Abstract Color

Baroque Vertical Color Columns in Liquid Abstraction - Abstract Color - Abstract Photography by Julie Markes

Abstract Color

This collection explores color as a language in its own right, without relying on a literal subject. Refracted light, glass, reflections, and saturated fields transform familiar materials into vivid, almost painterly compositions where forms dissolve and reassemble.

Rhythm, transparency, and the meeting of contrasting hues are central to these works. Cool blues sit alongside fiery reds; ordered grids shift into fluid waves. These are photographs made for slow looking, changing with scale, screen light, and viewing distance.

Baroque color columns rise through a lively close-up, where vermilion, citron, jade, peacock, lavender, and tangerine gather in tall irregular sections. Transparent skins, suspended bubbles, hairline scratches, and small pockets of glare animate the surface, giving the photograph the character of painted resin or submerged architectural panels. Some passages feel orderly and monumental, while others buckle, dissolve, or reveal delicate organic traces beneath their polished finish. A vivid scarlet section anchors the center, surrounded by cooler greens and blues that create shifting counterpoints across the square frame. The subject remains intentionally uncertain, balancing material observation with imaginative suggestion. This contemporary artwork may suit a collector’s wall, design-led interior, studio, hospitality setting, or editorial feature seeking energetic color, tactile detail, and an unconventional interpretation of everyday structure.

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