Color Will Set You Free
This exhibition highlights the practice of Color Abstraction in the work of five artists.
“For a professional artist, working with color is not a simple or casual thing. Color can be persistent or unstable, seemingly permanent or fleeting. Color is the most uncertain property of material objects -- a function of ever changing light, ever dependent on its surroundings. This objective/subjective condition makes color as fugitive as emotion -- like a musical note rising and then dissolving into remnant vibration.
Thus, somewhere between music and poetry, between vibrating with sound and declaiming with language, color soaks in into our visual consciousness.
Reaching into the sanctuary space of our body and our perception, color is emotion. And it is the confidence and skill with which these five artists harness that inescapable, emotive property of color, that allows them to 'speak' so confidently in the language of abstraction -- perhaps even to claim Color Abstraction as capable of being a universal language. Whether forceful or meditative, the clearly positive and lasting impact of the paintings in this exhibition is intended to persuade an engaged viewer of the likelihood of the universality of such a notion.
In our exhibition, the 5 artists' work will be interhung, seeking parallels and contrasts, such as: the striking similarities of form in Weider's "Objet d'Art" and Gerstein's "In Clarity"; the parallels in the structural organization of Lyshak's "RGB" and Yudelman's "One Day"; or the contrasting use of linear elements in Gerstein's "Annunciation" compared with Fearey's "Permanent".
I intend to use the broad spectrum of my own abstraction as an occasional bridge to span the similarities and underscore the contrasts. I hope for this arrangement to enhance the experience of our exhibition -- the subtlety, the sensuousness, and the sheer beauty of these artists' experimentation with color amid the intuitively organic design.”
-- Philip Gerstein
Artists
Opening Reception: Saturday April 6th, 3-5 pm
Closing Reception: Sunday April 28th, 3-5 pm