“Everything Is All White” Exhibition

Steven Kasher Gallery

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Kasher|Potamkin launches into a new year with Everything Is All White, an exhibition of over thirty multigenerational artists tied together by the crisp and pure color of fresh snow.

The anthropologist Franz Boas in the late 1800’s first brought attention to the fact that Eskimos have over 50 words for ‘snow’. They differentiate between wet snow and powdery snow, ‘softly falling snow’ and ‘snow that is good for driving a sled’. Should the color itself not be afforded the same reverence?

Everything Is All White invites visitors into a room filled with cleansing white light. The photographs and paintings, the furniture, ceramics, sculptures, and objects for the home, have an air of honest innocence and offer a fresh bright start to the New Year.

Adrienne Landau’s plush fur blankets, draped over the smooth surface of Stefan Rurak’s white oak-beam bench create a rich, tactile juxtaposition. From Costanza Theodoli-Braschi’s delicate micro-poems to Wendy Given’s monochrome To A Mouse, the artists in this show have embraced a minimal palette in dynamic ways proving that even the most basic of colors need not be simple. Without the distraction of bright neons and pastels, the viewer is invited to get lost in the fundamentals of the work and the endless possibilities lying in the void.



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