Paul Kolker “The Dot is in the Park”

Paul Kolker “The Dot is in the Park”

PAUL KOLKER collection

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Paul Kolker presents The Dot is in the Park at the Paul Kolker collection. The exhibition of paintings, prints and light sculptures is an experiment testing how the viewer perceives elemental colors placed one next to the other; and serves as a study for the resultant myriads of optically mixed colors in tints and shades… as well as a spectrum of feelings, which during the process of perception are generated in the viewer’s brain. The lead painting is Kolker’s The Dot is in the Park; a still of a virtual LCD display with Kolker’s dot gridded transformation of Georges Seurat’s Sunday in the Park on the Isle of La Grande Jatte, 1886, currently displayed at The Art Institute of Chicago.

The exhibition’s experiment provides red and blue gel lenses to test the Hering opponent color theory first developed in the 1880s, at the time of Seurat’s painting career. The theory is about sensory pathways from the back of the retina to many parts of the brain. The theory explains how color, particularly opponent colors with darkness and light can affect our mood, feelings and behavior. Today, with brain scanning technologies, synapses light up at the lateral geniculate nucleus; the way station to the cognitive, memory and emotional banks in the brain. In one pathway, blue courses with yellow; in another pathway, red courses with green. The opponent style combinations are also manifested in two types of color blindness; one in red and green color perception; and the other in blue and yellow perception.

In Paul Kolker: The Dot is in the Park, fourteen works are curated by the artist and serve to test the viewer’s perception; primarily, as to how color pairings affect our feelings and behavior.

Media

• Painting
• Photography
• Sculpture

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