Barry Regan (b. 1956, Walnut Creek, CA) has practiced at Creative Growth’s Studio since 2002, working primarily on paper and assemblage wood sculpture. Regan’s densely inhabited color fields are an endless negotiation with the fundamental qualities of circles and negative space. Their relationships are evocative of Yayoi Kusama’s Infinity Net series, although it is unlikely that Barry has ever seen the artist’s work. Repeated circles flow in and around each other, swelling and shrinking to create immersive waves of movement and color. At times ordered, and others visually cacophonous, his compositions are vibrant, rhythmic, organic, and topographic. Regan demonstrates a command in draftsmanship with his specificity of line weight, color, and scale. Regan prefers to stand while painting, not only for the bird’s eye perspective, but to hold the brush at its end. Regan is slow and meditative when creating his compositions; his rounded shapes are not rendered with a quick flick of the wrist but with slow and calculated movements around each form.