Characteristic of hard-edge abstraction, Jack Bosson treats the surface of the painting as a single unit: fields of unmodulated color coexist on the same plane, and there are no traces of brushwork save for some underdrawing visible beneath the yellow areas. Like a Gestalt vase/face illusion, Bosson’s interlocking shapes constantly switch between figure and ground. One moment the blue field may read as a positive form, like a cliff in front of a magenta sky––and in the next moment the blue field is read as background partially occluded by an encroaching magenta field. The composition maintains a dynamic sense of asymmetrical balance. The bulging magenta form below provides a counter to the visual weight of the dominant blue shape, and the peaking yellow shapes at the top draw the eye upward. The undulating vertical interface between blue and magenta is echoed in miniature in the contours between magenta and yellow that run horizontally across the canvas.
–When We Were Young: Rethinking Abstraction From The University At Albany Art Collections (1967-Present)