Alicia

“Naming this piece ‘Alicia’ was sort of tongue-in-cheek and came to me when I completed the piece and hung it
in a space next to the piano. I stepped back after hanging it and seeing the two together just spoke to me,
‘A painting of seemingly keyboard keys hanging next to the piano… Alicia! Alicia Keys!’. It was
definitely an ‘aha!’ moment.
The original concept came to me while I was nosing around my head for something different to paint. in the
following, I expose my typical thought process(s)… “Black. I should have a large black background. Bright
colors on a black background. Brightly-colored, hard edge geometry on a black background. Don’t hide the
black. Okay. so small colored geometry. Unexpected. Do something unexpected. No, do several unexpected
things in a small colored space. Large black painting and unexpected whatevers in a very small part of the
black background. That’s it.”
With that information, I moved to the concept phase. I had the brightly colored geometry placed where/how I
wanted on the black. Now, that part was sort of unexpected, but I wanted more disruption, so I broke the
white key and extended the blue one. Everything came together to my satisfaction.
It’s a minimalist piece with big impact.”

– Rick Ruark

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• TYPE

  ORIGINAL

• DATE

  2021

• MEDIUM

  Acrylic on Canvas

• DIMENSIONS

  30″ x 40″