Yellow Empress
from The Triumph of Romanticism
40" x 30"
acrylic on canvas
2016
Private Collection, Houston, Texas
Exhibitions
Nicole Longnecker Gallery, Houston, Texas, The Triumph of Romanticism, September 10 - October 15, 2016
 

Yellow Empress stands as a sovereign figure within The Triumph of Romanticism—a stylized embodiment of imperial force and aesthetic precision. Rendered in saturated gold against a black field, the canvas radiates ceremonial gravity. The phoenix headdress, embroidered robes, and composed gaze form a visual architecture of control, legacy, and myth.


This is not historical portraiture. It’s symbolic assertion. The figure operates within the same emotional and conceptual field as Red Chief—not as character, but as archetype. Yellow Empress channels the machinery of belief through ritual form, threading cultural memory into the mythic logic of Romanticism.


She doesn’t conclude the system—she governs it. Yellow Empress holds court at the intersection of beauty and power, anchoring the emotional field with sovereign clarity. Her presence is not reflective. It is law.