Nefertiti
from Genomic
24" x 36"
acrylic on canvas
2007
Collection of the Artist
Exhibitions
Bering & James, Houston, Texas, Genomic, November 2 - 23, 2007
Bering & James, Houston, Texas, Red, June 26 - July 16, 2008
Houston, Texas, The Februaries, January 31, 2015
A Phase Two canvas in the Genomic Works sequence, Nefertiti moves through fractured elegance and coded symbolism. A stylized portrait in red and yellow floats near the center—graphic, poised, and emotionally suspended. To its left, marbled blues and geometric overlays establish a cool rhythm. To the right, a repeating field of skulls threads mortality into the ornamental logic.


A single floral band—blue on pink—interrupts the anatomical drift with textile softness. The Tarot card appears as the Six of Wands: crown, scepter, and regalia rendered in symbolic illustration. It suggests recognition, but not resolution. The final band, a gradient of horizontal lines, closes the canvas with chromatic drift.


Nefertiti refracts royalty. The canvas becomes a site of symbolic recursion, where the genetics of beauty and power flicker across time, and presence is felt through texture, not depiction.