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A string bass player lays down the bass-line for a jazz standard in a club on Columbia Road. His fingers stroll easily down the neck of the bass as he smoothly plucks the strings in cool time. With his ear pressed close to his instrument, the bassist absorbs the notes of a B-flat scale into his soul with thorough feeling and intensity. The patrons at the small jazz club in the Adams Morgan neighborhood of Washington, DC are treated to a passionate musical performance.

David Ralph is a contemporary artist and illustrator currently living in Maryland. David's style of painting and illustration can best be described as geometric abstraction with influences ranging from the cubist paintings of Pablo Picasso to the primitive, cutout shapes of Henri Matisse. Other notable influences for David were Paul Cezanne's fragmented landscapes and the geometrically-divided, flat-color canvases of Piet Mondrian. To David, the simple elegance of the curve, the line, and the circle create the ideal two-dimensional plain of visual interest and appeal. And, to add color intensity, value contrast and balance to this space - along with repetition, texture and pattern - is to create a perfect harmony. It is to this goal that...