In nickel, yellow, red, ochre curtain, Kevin Lowenthal turns the curtain—an object that veils, reveals, and frames—into a layered site of inquiry. Using his signature process of embedding cotton fiber into linen and building up rich surfaces with oil paint, he transforms the material into something both sculptural and atmospheric. This curtain does not merely suggest theatricality; it becomes a space of containment, memory, and emotional residue.
Lowenthal’s works often blur the line between painting and architecture. Drawing from theatrical design, science fiction, and video game aesthetics, he constructs psychological interiors populated by thresholds: windows, doors, and stage elements. The curtain here reads both as boundary and invitation, acting as a portal between states of knowing and unknowing.
The color palette—cool nickel, earthy ochre, sharp red and yellow—adds to the temporal ambiguity of the piece. Like much of his work, this painting hovers between the real and the dreamlike, collapsing time and space into a single frame of perceptual tension.