Peach and Papaya 2 Painting

Angela Simeone’s Peach and Papaya 2 painting ascends as a towering abstract in hue, its vertical thrust amplifying the voluptuous interplay of peach’s velvety warmth and papaya’s succulent coral, layered in translucent veils that cascade like overripe flesh parting under thumb. Simeone’s glazes—amber-flecked and coral-veined—drip and pool across the expansive field, conjuring lobe-like swells and shadowed crevices that evoke the fruit’s inner architecture: a post-minimalist anatomy where form fractures into juicy interstices, textured with faint impasto ridges that mimic pulp’s fibrous give. The composition denies symmetry for asymmetrical bounty, a cascade of warm tones against indeterminate grounds that hums with subtropical excess.

Simeone refines her harvest motifs into a feminist gloss on abundance, channeling O’Keeffe’s scaled intimacies through Bonnard’s light-drenched domesticity—here, the canvas as skin, ripe and yielding. This monumental vertical commands the gaze upward, mapping desire’s vertical pull from root to rind. In raking light, papayas burst defiant; in gloam, peaches hush to bruised reverie. Voracious yet veiled, *Peach and Papaya 2* portals the viewer into perpetual ripeness—plucked, perhaps, but never fully consumed.

A 88x100 original abstract painting on gallery wrapped stretched canvas by Nashville artist Angela Simeone