Jonathan Todryk American, b. 1984
152.4 x 111.8 cm
Jonathan Todryk’s “Ordinary Treasure” is a contemporary abstract painting built from delicate blue-gray lines, rubbed marks, and softly layered neutral tones. Loose drawing moves across a pale cream and gray surface, shifting between faint, nearly erased passages and darker areas of concentrated mark-making. Curving lines, geometric fragments, and repeated gestures overlap throughout the composition, giving the work the immediacy of a sketch while revealing a surface that has been repeatedly worked, obscured, and redrawn. The painting reflects Todryk’s distinctive approach to abstraction, where drawing and painting come together through accumulated marks and traces of the artist’s hand.