Gently angled swaths of pale green, blue and white are balanced with bright lights of magenta, orange and periwinkle. Cohen is mindful of colour values that vary across a continuum in this piece, like light that bends and is made visible through a prism. Cohen intersects the language of Abstract Expressionism with narrative to re-invent the experience of action painting in a contemporary context.

Adam Cohen, born in New Jersey, studied with artist Lilian Marzell, a friend of Willem de Kooning. Cohen earned his BFA at Philadelphia's Tyler School of Art at Temple University which included a year of painting in Rome. Returning to New York he studied at the School of Visual Arts, the Arts Students League and Parsons School of Design. Cohen has exhibited in Italy, Holland, New Jersey, New York and Ontario. His work is in numerous private collections. In 2015, he was awarded the International Art Prize Giuseppe Gambino in Venice, Italy.