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The work presents an arrangement of interlocking rectangles, arcs, and two small circles in saturated, sharply bounded colors that create a gridded, puzzle-like field across the square surface.
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Open edition from $90 USD

No Exit · 2025

No Exit #1

The work presents an arrangement of interlocking rectangles, arcs, and two small circles in saturated, sharply bounded colors that create a gridded, puzzle-like field across the square surface.

About the work

Vertical bands of red, blue, green, ochre, and ivory establish a strict grid that is repeatedly interrupted by sweeping quarter-circles and smaller arcs, whose curves press against the rectilinear order without fully breaking it. Two red discs sit along a central pale column, their circular forms echoing the larger arcs while remaining enclosed by the surrounding blocks of color. The palette alternates between warm cadmium reds, oranges, and yellows and cooler cobalt blues and greens, with black and off-white acting as stabilizing intervals that slow the eye’s movement across the surface. Subtle overlaps and abutments of planes suggest shallow layers, as if each colored segment negotiates for space within a fixed framework, reinforcing the sense of a closed, inescapable structure implied by the title.

Print, paper & editions
Open edition
Archival matte 230gsm
Numbered edition of 100
Hahnemühle Photo Rag 308gsm cotton
Sizes
12×12 to 32×32 in
Process
Archival pigment giclée

Limited editions are hand-numbered to 100 and ship with a certificate of authenticity.

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Numbered edition of 100From $160

Open edition also available, from $90