
Stephen Bezas
Love 1, 2025
Acrylic on canvas
60 x 72 in. diptych
Copyright Upsilon Gallery
Love extends Bezas’ ongoing Split Series, where the canvas itself becomes a dialogue between separation and union. Across two panels, color and gesture reach toward one another—sometimes converging, sometimes resisting—suggesting...
Love extends Bezas’ ongoing Split Series, where the canvas itself becomes a dialogue between separation and union. Across two panels, color and gesture reach toward one another—sometimes converging, sometimes resisting—suggesting the paradoxes that shape intimacy. Layers of acrylic shift between density and openness, creating a surface that vibrates with both tension and
tenderness.
The scale of the work invites viewers to step into this charged space, to feel how distance and closeness can exist simultaneously. In this way, Love seeks not to define the emotion but to embody its complexity, its dual nature, and its quiet insistence on wholeness.
tenderness.
The scale of the work invites viewers to step into this charged space, to feel how distance and closeness can exist simultaneously. In this way, Love seeks not to define the emotion but to embody its complexity, its dual nature, and its quiet insistence on wholeness.