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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, 24_ x 24_, 61cm x 61cm, oil
Wavefield #223, after a Palette by Tarsila do Amaral. 9/2025, 12" x 12", 30cm x 30cm, oil on board
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Wavefield #222, after a Palette by Mary Cassatt, 9_2025, 24_ x 24_, 61cm x 61cm, oil on bo
Wavefield #222, after a Palette by Mary Cassatt. 9/2025, 12" x 12", 30cm x 30cm, oil on board
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Wavefield #207, after a Palette by Lois Mailou Jones. 8_2025, 12_ x 12_, 30cm x 30cm, oil
Wavefield #207, after a Palette by Lois Mailou Jones. 8/2025, 12" x 12", 30cm x 30cm, oil on board
Lois Mailou Jones Color Palettes. Wavefield #207, by Roberto Azank.jpg
Wavefield #202, after a Palette by Clara Peeters. 8_2025, 12_ x 12_, 30cm x 30cm, oil on b
Wavefield #202, after a Palette by Clara Peeters. 8/2025, 12" x 12", 30cm x 30cm, oil on board
Clara Peeters Color Palettes. Wavefield #202, by Roberto Azank.jpg
Wavefield #201, after a Palette by Elaine De Kooning. 8_2025, 12_ x 12_, 30cm x 30cm, oil
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Wavefield #200, after a Palette by Gabrielle Muenter. 8_2025, 12_ x 12_, 30cm x 30cm, oil
Wavefield #200, after a Palette by Gabrielle Muenter. 8/2025, 12" x 12", 30cm x 30cm, oil on board
Gabrielle Muenter Color Palettes. Wavefield #200, by Roberto Azank.jpg
Wavefield #201, after a Palette by Elaine De Kooning. 8/2025, 12" x 12", 30cm x 30cm, oil on board
Elaine De Kooning Color Palettes. Wavefield #201, by Roberto Azank.jpg
Wavefield #199, after a Palette by Frida Kahlo. 8_2025, 12_ x 12_, 30cm x 30cm, oil on boa
Wavefield #199, after a Palette by Frida Kahlo. 8/2025, 12" x 12", 30cm x 30cm, oil on board
Frida Kahlo Color Palettes. Wavefield #199, by Roberto Azank.jpg
Wavefield #198, after a Palette by Joan Mitchell. 8_2025, 12_ x 12_, 30cm x 30cm, oil on b
Wavefield #198, after a Palette by Joan Mitchell. 8/2025, 12" x 12", 30cm x 30cm, oil on board
Joan Mitchell Color Palettes. Wavefield #198, by Roberto Azank.jpg

"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
Wavefield #192, after a Palette by Hilma Af Klint. 7/2025, 12" x 12", 30cm x 30cm, oil on board
Hilma Af Klint Color Palettes. Wavefield #192, by Roberto Azank.jpg
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Alternate View: Wavefield #192.
Wavefield #197, after a Palette by Leonora Carrington. 7_2025, 12_ x 12_, 30cm x 30cm, oil
Wavefield #197, after a Palette by Leonora Carrington. 7/2025, 12" x 12", 30cm x 30cm, oil on board
Leonora Carrington Color Palettes. Wavefield #197, by Roberto Azank.jpg
Wavefield #196, after a Palette by Lee Krasner. 7_2025, 12_ x 12_, 30cm x 30cm, oil on boa
Wavefield #196, after a Palette by Lee Krasner. 7/2025, 12" x 12", 30cm x 30cm, oil on board
Lee Krasner Color Palette. Wavefield #196, by Roberto Azank.jpg
Wavefield #193, after a Palette by Sonia Delaunay. 7_2025, 12_ x 12_, 30cm x 30cm, oil on
Wavefield #193, after a Palette by Sonia Delaunay. 7/2025, 12" x 12", 30cm x 30cm, oil on board
Sonia Delaunay Color Palettes. Wavefield #193, by Roberto Azank.jpg
Wavefield #191, after a Palette by Helen Frankenthaler. 7_2025, 12_ x 12_, 30cm x 30cm, oi
Wavefield #190, after a Palette by Georgia O'Keeffe 7_2025, 12_ x 12_, 30cm x 30cm, oil on
Wavefield #190, after a Palette by Georgia O'Keeffe 7/2025, 12" x 12", 30cm x 30cm, oil on board
Georgia O'Keeffe Color Palettes. Wavefield #190, by Roberto Azank.jpg
Wavefield #191, after a Palette by Helen Frankenthaler. 7/2025, 12" x 12", 30cm x 30cm, oil on board
Helen Frankenthaler Color Palettes. Wavefield #191, by Roberto Azank.jpg
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Wavefield #189, after a Palette by Yayoi Kusama, 7_2025, 12_ x 12_, 30cm x 30cm, oil on bo
Wavefield #189, after a Palette by Yayoi Kusama, 7/2025, 12" x 12", 30cm x 30cm, oil on board
Yayoi Kusama Color Palettes. Wavefield #189, by Roberto Azank.jpg
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