Paintings
Women
palette Homages
Woodstock, NY. 2025
Women Artists' palettes inspire the color choices.
No representation -
just color fields / action painting
Azank’s homages shine a light on the, by now of course, less under-represented female color pioneers, but this tipping of the hat to the greats that came before him has magically created equality - because in the end it is the work that earns your place in history, hopefully, and not your assigned gender. While we try to culturally gender color all the time, in reality, there is no such thing as differences in wavelengths our eyes can perceive. Color is of nature, but nature does not codify gender the way we thought.
from Moni Schifler-Azank's essay "Does Color have a Gender?

Wavefield #223, after a Palette by Tarsila do Amaral. 9/2025, 12" x 12", 30cm x 30cm, oil on board



Wavefield #222, after a Palette by Mary Cassatt. 9/2025, 12" x 12", 30cm x 30cm, oil on board


Wavefield #207, after a Palette by Lois Mailou Jones. 8/2025, 12" x 12", 30cm x 30cm, oil on board


Wavefield #202, after a Palette by Clara Peeters. 8/2025, 12" x 12", 30cm x 30cm, oil on board




Wavefield #200, after a Palette by Gabrielle Muenter. 8/2025, 12" x 12", 30cm x 30cm, oil on board

Wavefield #201, after a Palette by Elaine De Kooning. 8/2025, 12" x 12", 30cm x 30cm, oil on board


Wavefield #199, after a Palette by Frida Kahlo. 8/2025, 12" x 12", 30cm x 30cm, oil on board


Wavefield #198, after a Palette by Joan Mitchell. 8/2025, 12" x 12", 30cm x 30cm, oil on board

"Then, further, he places some of these studies on a slant as diamonds, and thus they begin to become as if op art, expressing themselves in dizzying wavelengths of visual experience a la Bridget Riley or, in a more present moment, Karen Davies. Azank furthers the diamonds with obverse and reverse at angular canvas posi-tionings, stimulating different optical responses in an excavatory manner as in launching a catalyst, which leads to a questioning of other painters' chromatic abstractions and/or deconstructions.
Azank finds the symphonic in the stop-and-go motion and turns it all
around. I was so spurred on by this new development in his work after having followed it for so many years that this prompter par excellence put his own version of the idea to an AI test."
from Palette Homages, by Lee Klein. Village Review, August 2025-

Wavefield #192, after a Palette by Hilma Af Klint. 7/2025, 12" x 12", 30cm x 30cm, oil on board


Alternate View: Wavefield #192.

Wavefield #197, after a Palette by Leonora Carrington. 7/2025, 12" x 12", 30cm x 30cm, oil on board


Wavefield #196, after a Palette by Lee Krasner. 7/2025, 12" x 12", 30cm x 30cm, oil on board


Wavefield #193, after a Palette by Sonia Delaunay. 7/2025, 12" x 12", 30cm x 30cm, oil on board



Wavefield #190, after a Palette by Georgia O'Keeffe 7/2025, 12" x 12", 30cm x 30cm, oil on board

Wavefield #191, after a Palette by Helen Frankenthaler. 7/2025, 12" x 12", 30cm x 30cm, oil on board



Wavefield #189, after a Palette by Yayoi Kusama, 7/2025, 12" x 12", 30cm x 30cm, oil on board
