BLUE CHEER

Erik Sommer's "BLUE CHEER" is a stained spray paint on raw canvas work built around a near-vertical curtain of oxblood red, the pigment falling in dozens of individual drips from the upper edge down toward a pooled band of blue that settles along the bottom of the canvas like sediment. In the upper right corner, a dense burst of gold interrupts the red, its edges bleeding into a darker olive green where the two colors met while still wet.

The title borrows its charge from psychedelic rock, and the canvas carries a matching intensity despite its restrained palette — three colors doing the work of many. Sommer's process of soaking and layering aerosol paint into raw canvas means the red reads as absorbed rather than applied, each drip retaining the softened edge of pigment that sank into fiber rather than sitting on the surface. The blue pooling at the base functions as a horizon line, containing the fall of red above it.

For collectors, "BLUE CHEER" offers one of the more graphic and immediate compositions in Sommer's practice, its high-contrast palette and clear structure making it a strong visual anchor within a broader collection of his stained-canvas work.