Demonstrating Ed Clark’s singular approach to abstraction, ‘Gray Motion’ (2008) proposes a poetic treatise on color and the materiality of paint. Embodying Clark’s title, a slate gray wash delicately traverses aqueous swells, drawing our gaze to the center of the canvas where it pools into a marbled impasto. Further enlivening his composition with splashes of crimson and swaths of bright yellow, Clark’s dynamic expressions evoke crashing waves, emphasizing the lyrical and atmospheric sensibility of his paintings from this period. Among his innovations, Clark’s method involved the use of a push broom, which he used to quicken layers of acrylic paint across a floor-lain canvas, capturing gesture and the power of the body. Here, these spirited actions appear to float on an organically driven surface, producing a sense of multidimensional fluidity that is the hallmark of Clark’s process.