Swing I 24" x 24" Nowak’s Tall Building strips away

Nowak’s Tall Building strips away function

fullness and emptiness

Turquoise and lavender weave through

Unlike the dense gestural layers of the Symphony or Delicate Spring works

The painting is not about a literal forest

Swing I 24" x 24" Nowak’s Tall Building strips awaySee more art from the 2025 New Works With Swing I, part of the 2025 New Works Collection, James Nowak shifts his painterly vocabulary toward rhythm, balance, and improvisation. Unlike the dense gestural layers of the Symphony or Delicate Spring works, Swing I embraces sparseness and clarity, allowing each mark to carry weight and resonance. The title itself signals a connection to music and movementspecifically the improvisational cadence of