Blue Painting 2002

Joseph Marioni's "Blue Painting" is a meditation in colour, made with paint on canvas. It's not just blue; it's an experience of blueness. Up close, the surface is like a sea of texture, a topography of tiny peaks and valleys where light dances and refracts. The colour isn't flat, but alive, almost breathing. Look closely, and you'll see how Marioni has built up layers of translucent pigment, allowing the light to penetrate and bounce back, creating a sense of depth. It feels like looking into an endless sky or the depths of the ocean, right? This reminds me of Agnes Martin, but where she sought serenity through pale grids, Marioni dives headfirst into the visceral power of colour. Like a Rothko, it envelops you. Like a Klein, it pulls you in. "Blue Painting" is an open invitation to lose yourself in the ocean of colour, and to find new ways of seeing in the process.