"Now You See It…Color and the Mind’s Eye" Exhibition
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CENTRAL BOOKING art space presents Now You See It…Color and the Mind’s Eye, an exhibition that brings together 17 artists in their exploration of color. They examine the eye, play with sight, have us wonder at what it is we are seeing, or question the “how” as well as the “why.”
Chuck Close, a modern Pointillist who builds images from mere scribbles of overlapping colors, takes the concept of the photographic dot into a new realm. Martha Hayden plays with our brain’s perception of color as space, with the variation on the eternal push/pull of the figure/ground question. The videos of Berlin artist Gerhard Mantz parade colors and shapes before us as they appear to morph from one plane to the next. Kate Temple takes her extensive studies of color theory, from Goethe onwards, to create atmospheric filterings through space, to see or not to see bare glimmers of landscape; David Ambrose layers color upon color until we see the glowing vibrations of transparencies ready to burst forth beyond the rectangle- or back into it. Yet the space in Nola Zirin’s paintings becomes a space of blue, as our eye winds around from deep space to the surface – or does it? But Sarah Stengle may be blue but blue still has its deeper meaning in a quest for what it does mean to be blue.
Katherine Jackson creates a lens for us to stand and look through, as it regards us noncommittally while Jo Yarrington’s sculptural piece models the eye through a lens lightly. Paul Tecklenberg turns optics on its head as the lens becomes a glass becomes a lens and Adrienne Klein, with echoes of Warhol, brings insight into the four-channel experience beyond the mere rods and cones of the title.
Master printer Ruth Lingen plays with the illusions of color on a daily basis while when working with Jessica Stockholder, color becomes a plaything. Peter Thomashow, a psychologist in his own right, lends his medical expertise to his playful assemblages. The book works of Julie Shaw Lutts explode from the boxes that contain them, this one dealing with a whimsical view of the science of optics. Kirsten Hoving may have a photographic historical outlook on the ocular, but W. David Powell manages with his witty collages of juxtapositions from historical textbooks to bring a contemporary perspective to the matter. Gareth Long takes his impulse from his library and gives us a reading on levels of perception.
All in all, these artists journey into the world, our world, colored by perception, psychology and the senses.
A catalog of Now You See It…Color and the Mind’s Eye is also available as part of the September issue of CENTRAL BOOKING MAGAZINE: http://centralbookingnyc.com/magazine/september-2011/. John Haber explores the science and psychology of the optics of color as seen through the eyes of artists, Kirstin Hoving discourses on optics as both an art historian and photographer, and Peter Thomashow delves into the reality of optics and its influence on his own art.
On Thursday October 13th at 6:30pm, the panel discussion Art: Color and Optics will explore the crossover between color and optics from the viewpoint of artists in the exhibition and guest scientists. Adrienne Klein, Director of Special Projects in the Office of Research and Sponsored Programs at The Graduate Center of the City University of New York, a long time advocate and practitioner of art and science in her own right, will moderate the panel. Admission is $5 and advance reservations to guarantee a seat is encouraged, these panels tend to be quite popular.
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Schedule
from September 08, 2011 to October 23, 2011
Panel Discussion Art: Color and Optics - Thursday, October 13th, 6:30pm ($5)
Opening Reception on 2011-09-15 from 18:00 to 20:00