DeConstructing Color by Douglas Teiger

“DeConstructing Color” invites viewers into an exuberant collision of intuition, craftsmanship, and chromatic inquiry. In this newest body of work, Ojai based artist architect Douglas Teiger literally takes a knife to his luminous abstract oil paintings, slicing them into ribbons, shards, and geometric shapes. Each fragment—already pulsing with the meditative energy that drives his studio practice—finds new life when anchored to purpose built wood panels where planes tilt, overlap, and hover in daring asymmetry.

Teiger’s process begins, as always, with silent meditation and an invocation of Spirit as a co-creator; yet here contemplation is followed by audacious deconstruction, a surrender that allows liberated color to converse in unexpected keys. Glossy cadmiums lean against whispering umbers, ultramarine pools beside flashes of zinc white, and negative space becomes a vital breath between gestures. Viewers are encouraged to move, peer, and feel the pull of gravity inside each piece, discovering surprising horizons as surface and frame trade roles.

The result is neither collage nor painting alone, but an expanded field where color thinks out loud—undisciplined, joyous, and profoundly alive. “DeConstructing Color” ultimately celebrates transformation itself, reminding us that destruction can be an act of radical creation and renewed wonder. Lean in; pigments whisper freshly imagined stories to receptive eyes.

Come visit my studio and 12 other artists on May 10th for the 2nd Saturday Tour in Ojai. CA.