Jean-Francois Lauda’s art invites the viewer to enter an indeterminate place that revels in the freedom of painting—a field that remains open to possibility. Through an intuitive approach and his knack for fugitive mark-making, Lauda embraces the unexpected as he focuses on the residual traces of the image. Informed by his talent in improvisational music, Lauda's compositions have a contrapuntal quality, revealing a constant desire to balance elements of chaos and order. In the end, Lauda creates expressive works in which gestures and geometries become intertwined.