Gallery Visit 4
Color Expressions
Fountain Gallery, downtown Lafayette
March 7 through April 22, 2017
The permanent collection of Purdue University Galleries is home to artworks that represent exciting approaches to color usage. Color plays an important role in art and design, as it affects our visual experiences by building identities, engaging the senses, and fostering conscious and unconscious thinking patterns. Curated by Petronio Bendito, Ed.D. Associate Professor in Purdue’s Department of Art and Design, this exhibition showcases a broad range of approaches in which the artists combined colors in expressive and evocative ways. It features a selection of works that Bendito identified while surveying the Collection for his research on color design methods, presented in thought-provoking groupings.
The exhibition features silkscreen prints from Josef Albers' book Interaction of Color which has impacted artists, designers, and art educator in the U.S. and abroad. Instead of Mixing paint to achieve desired effects, his cognitive approach focuses on learning to see and test color relationship via direct manipulation of colored papers.
Many strategies are used to create color combinations, such as intuition, feeling, direct observation, experience, appropriation, sampling, theory, and most recently computational processes. This exhibition promotes the idea that an understanding of color design methods is a powerful expressive tool for artists and designer.
The exhibited artworks used, demonstrated, and explained the following ideas, technics, and concepts:
Visual Vibration/Visual Mix
Rich Colors
Traditional Colors
Restrained Palette
Contrasts and Brilliance
Temporal Colors
Color Dissociation
Unified Palettes
Color Linkage: A few works show the vibrancy of the colors in those works is employed to caricatures the content suggested by their titles. The analogous color on one work contrast with the explosion of hues in the other. However, placed side-by-side they are linked by the use of vibrant colors, referencing a perceptual effect known as color linkage.
Tonal Shift: A few works provide an opportunity to contemplate a wide range of colors shifting from darker to lighter tones across their compositions. Even though they reference different subject matter, they are linked by hue choices.
Emphasis
Unity
Narrative Color
Sensorial Stimulation: A few works represent the intersection of art and science. They create visual stimulation in the eye of the viewer.
Bauhaus Formalism: Devoid of objective representation or narrative.
Color Rhythm: Contrasting hues, such as bright magenta, yellow and blue add tension to the artwork.
Hue Contrast: Two related design strategies - "Hue Contrast" and "Hue Separation".
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Gallery Visit 3
Sonja Peterson: Transvers Travesites
Robert L. Ringel Gallery, Stewart Center
March 6 through April 2, 2017
Looking to historical events and science to help absorb present day dilemmas, Peterson’s large-scale cut paper and sculptural works attempt loose comparative analysis through imaginative narratives pulled from across time and varied literary sources. “Whole worlds exist within the intricate details of her complex cuttings. Native plants and cultures clash with invaders. Historical events merge with present-day environmental dilemmas. The effects of globalization are intertwined with commerce and consciousness.” (City Pages, Minneapolis, Camille LeFevre)
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Gallery Visit 2
Undergraduate Art Exhibition
Patti and Rueff Gallery
Feburary 23 through March 6, 2017
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Gallery Visit 1
Global Matrix IV: An International Printmaking Exhibition
Robert L. Ringel Gallery, Stewart Center
January 9 through February 18, 2017
Global Matrix IV is a contemporary review of fine art printmaking from around the world organized as a traveling exhibition in the U.S. from 2017 to 2019. This fourth installment of Global Matrix includes a rich selection of both past exhibitors, whose work shows even greater virtuosity and refinement, and many new artists with intriguing new visions. It is designed to address the budget challenges currently facing mid-range exhibition venues by presenting a top quality contemporary exhibition in a professional and economical way.
Below are the exhibited artworks that I liked:
- “Last Wish Love” (monoprint, 2015) by Sari Majander (Finland).
(Link to the picture I took of this artwork: https://goo.gl/YyZrU6)
This artwork makes me feel very touching and warming. The look of this artwork reminds me of a song called “Shape Of You” by Ed Sheeran.
- “It Will Be Clear Soon” (ultraviolet screen print, 2015) by Briar Craig (Canada).
(Link to the picture I took of this artwork: https://goo.gl/DzmGW9)
This is a pretty interesting artwork. For those who like to dig in and figure out puzzles, this one is really mysterious. Underneath the first normal and clear layer of words, there are other two or three blurry layers in depth. It really makes you want to figure what other mysterious layers say.
After I spent some time dig into the picture I took of this artwork, I was able to figure out all the information:
The first normal and clear layer of words says “IT WILL BE CLEAR SOON”;
The second fade out and blurry layer of words says “READ ME”;
(Link to the picture I took of this artwork: https://goo.gl/YyZrU6)
This artwork makes me feel very touching and warming. The look of this artwork reminds me of a song called “Shape Of You” by Ed Sheeran.
- “It Will Be Clear Soon” (ultraviolet screen print, 2015) by Briar Craig (Canada).
(Link to the picture I took of this artwork: https://goo.gl/DzmGW9)
This is a pretty interesting artwork. For those who like to dig in and figure out puzzles, this one is really mysterious. Underneath the first normal and clear layer of words, there are other two or three blurry layers in depth. It really makes you want to figure what other mysterious layers say.
After I spent some time dig into the picture I took of this artwork, I was able to figure out all the information:
The first normal and clear layer of words says “IT WILL BE CLEAR SOON”;
The second fade out and blurry layer of words says “READ ME”;
And the last fade out and blurry layer of words says “CAN’T YOU SEE WHAT YOU ARE DOING”.
Since I figured out the last layer before the second layer, the exact moment I found out “READ ME” it really shocked me and gave me goose pumps. It was kind of a terrifying feeling since I really focused hard on the words.
- “Surface Reader 2” and “Surface Reader 3” (woodcut and digital print, 2016) by Morgan Wedderspoon (Canada).
(Link to the picture I took of this artwork: https://goo.gl/qW8zZq & https://goo.gl/0joCzu)
These two artworks have some similarity with the one above, that is, they are all blurring and hiding words and making them blending into the elements in the frame.
The content hiding in the frame for these two artworks are:
"NEITHER WHOLE NOR A PART" and, "THE THREATENING NEARNESS OF THINGS".
Still, it was hard to read the words by just look at it. You have to move around, try different angles to look at the frame, and finally using some efforts you can decode the information inside the frame.
- “Got My Back” (woodcut, 2016) by Jun Lee (United States).
(Link to the picture I took of this artwork: https://goo.gl/uQF8Fp)
- “Table” (etching with aquatint, 2016) by Weronika W. Siupka (Poland).
(Link to the picture I took of this artwork: https://goo.gl/laFiJN)
Since I figured out the last layer before the second layer, the exact moment I found out “READ ME” it really shocked me and gave me goose pumps. It was kind of a terrifying feeling since I really focused hard on the words.
- “Surface Reader 2” and “Surface Reader 3” (woodcut and digital print, 2016) by Morgan Wedderspoon (Canada).
(Link to the picture I took of this artwork: https://goo.gl/qW8zZq & https://goo.gl/0joCzu)
These two artworks have some similarity with the one above, that is, they are all blurring and hiding words and making them blending into the elements in the frame.
The content hiding in the frame for these two artworks are:
"NEITHER WHOLE NOR A PART" and, "THE THREATENING NEARNESS OF THINGS".
Still, it was hard to read the words by just look at it. You have to move around, try different angles to look at the frame, and finally using some efforts you can decode the information inside the frame.
- “Got My Back” (woodcut, 2016) by Jun Lee (United States).
(Link to the picture I took of this artwork: https://goo.gl/uQF8Fp)
- “Table” (etching with aquatint, 2016) by Weronika W. Siupka (Poland).
(Link to the picture I took of this artwork: https://goo.gl/laFiJN)
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