Roseland 1959

Milton Resnick made "Roseland" with oil paint and the result is a total visual party! The paint is so thick and juicy, it’s like he sculpted the canvas with color. There’s this one spot, near the bottom, where a smear of yellow meets a daub of blue – together they make a kind of electric green, like something is growing right before your eyes. You can practically see the energy of his hand moving across the surface. It reminds me a little of Joan Mitchell, another painter who wasn’t afraid to let the paint do its thing. Resnick reminds us that art is about being unafraid, embracing the messy, and seeing what happens. It’s less about knowing and more about feeling.