Chromatic harmony in music blends the atonal with the synchronous to create tension and release. Similarly, in visual art, chromatic harmony integrates simple and complex, geometric and organic, to create tension and resolution for the viewer.

Jackie Kazarian’s vibrant, kinetic paintings and Yvette Kaiser Smith’s wall-mounted geometric abstractions are similar in their embrace of color yet divergent in their emotional state. Kazarian’s works appear to be in continual flux, alternating between exuberance and anxiety while Kaiser Smith’s poetic objects are firmly grounded in geometry and a singular material language.