Happy New Year, 48" x 60"

 See more paintings from the Floating Color Collection. Happy New Year is a striking contribution to the broader field of geometric abstraction. Where expressive abstraction relies on gesture and spontaneity, this work turns instead to the order of shapes, the precision of placement, and the vitality of color.  The title situates the painting in a cultural and emotional context: the turning of the year, a moment of renewal and celebration. Through geometry and color, the piece captures both the festivity of the holiday and the balance needed to carry forward into a new beginning. The composition is defined by a constellation of rectangles, trapezoids, squares, and irregular polygons dispersed across a luminous white ground. A large, cool blue square occupies the central field, serving as an anchor around which the other shapes orbit. The arrangement is neither rigidly symmetrical nor entirely chaotic. Instead, it operates on a principle of rhythmic balance: forms appear scattered like