Brianna Bass (b. 1990, USA) is an artist whose paintings explore the relationship between color, geometry, and systems of order. Her works function as diagrammatic color games, examining evolving structures at the intersection of harmony and cacophony. Drawing from the geometries of the color wheel, Bass approaches color through the poetic possibilities of mathematics, using numbers as a language to investigate perception and reality. Each painting is built upon numerical systems that serve as its underlying structure, including stratified sequences, randomization processes, prime number patterns, and logical geometries that connect numbers with colors. While these systems follow consistent rules, their visual results remain unpredictable. Through this tension between control and chance, Bass reveals the instability and complexity inherent in the experience of color. Bass’s practice is deeply informed by the physical and perceptual nature of color itself. She explores how colors shift according to their surroundings, how the eye constructs new perceptions through contrast and optical mixing, and how the evolution of pigments continuously transforms our understanding of color. Her hearing loss has also shaped a linguistic relationship with color, leading her to consider colors as forms of communication—similar to sound—where patterns and systems create meaning from fragments of information. Geometry serves as a bridge between the mathematical and the intimate, connecting cosmological structures, time, and particle behavior with psychological and perceptual experiences. Through the interplay of logic, chance, and sensory perception, Bass creates works that suspend certainty and invite contemplation on the limits of language, the instability of perception, and the transformative potential of abstraction.