Yellow Squares on Green

Tina Bluefield

84” x 66”

Oil and oil bar on canvas

Yellow Squares on Green presents a sophisticated exploration of geometry, variation, and rhythm. Tina Bluefield fills the canvas with a dense constellation of hand-drawn squares, each outlined with layered oil bar lines that subtly shift in orientation, spacing, and pressure. Against a deep green ground, the soft yellow centers appear to float, creating a quiet luminosity that moves across the surface.

Bluefield’s approach balances structure with organic irregularity. While the composition hints at a grid, no two squares are alike; each carries a slight tilt, rotation, or spatial deviation. This gentle disruption allows the work to breathe, infusing a disciplined geometric framework with a sense of human presence. The interplay between controlled repetition and expressive mark-making adds dimensionality and tactility, inviting viewers to discover new patterns, alignments, and rhythms.

Yellow Squares on Green aligns Bluefield with the lineage of geometric abstraction and post–minimalist painting. Her work recalls the grid-based investigations of Agnes Martin and the optical inventiveness of Josef Albers. Bluefield’s hand-drawn lines and layered oil-bar surfaces set her apart, giving the work a subtle imperfection that feels distinctly contemporary.

The painting investigates how line and repetition are dynamic, expressive forces. Here, rhythm emerges not through gesture alone but through the subtle tilts and accumulations of form. Yellow Squares on Green demonstrates Bluefield’s ability to transform simple geometry into an abstract field of rhythm and movement.