Red-on-red is difficult to pull off, yet James Hayward makes it work beautifully in his most recent survey entitled “At Last” at Roberts & Tilton where an entire room is painted red to showcase his very dense red paintings. And that’s just the side gallery. Throughout the exhibit, lush and loosely rendered, these mostly red, black and white abstractions are so seductive in their presence they practically call you toward them in a deep sonorous whisper. Paint, thickly and heavily layered, gives these works their power and strength, wherein each brushstroke becomes its own significant gesture within the framework of the entire image. As a whole the exhibition stands as living testament to gestural abstraction as only James Hayward can deliver and own.

Roberts & Tilton
5801 Washington Boulevard
Culver City, California 90232
Show runs through October 31, 2015