The Blues
The Painting Center presents The Blues, an exhibition that explores the multifaceted color of 鈥淏lue鈥�. The curators, Lisa Pressman and Kathy Cantwell, both colorists, have chosen work done in a variety of styles, media and approaches to try to capture the mystery in this color. Blue is a primary, not secondary, color and is the Pantone color of 2020. We are celebrating blue in all of its associations and complexities.
Blue is the only color that describes an emotional state as in melancholia or depression. We don鈥檛 say we feel red or green. We can feel blue. It鈥檚 a state of being. Conversely, it is known to calm the mind and body. The color blue can slow human metabolism and can produce a meditative effect. In nature, it is reflected in the sky, water, earth, and fire. It is associated with open spaces, intuition, imagination and inspiration. The Blues describes music, such as rhythm and blues, bluegrass and jazz. It is also associated with ideology like the democrats and blue states. 鈥淏lue has no dimension, it is beyond dimensions.鈥� - Yves Klein
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The Painting Center presents The Blues, an exhibition that explores the multifaceted color of 鈥淏lue鈥�. The curators, Lisa Pressman and Kathy Cantwell, both colorists, have chosen work done in a variety of styles, media and approaches to try to capture the mystery in this color. Blue is a primary, not secondary, color and is the Pantone color of 2020. We are celebrating blue in all of its associations and complexities.
Blue is the only color that describes an emotional state as in melancholia or depression. We don鈥檛 say we feel red or green. We can feel blue. It鈥檚 a state of being. Conversely, it is known to calm the mind and body. The color blue can slow human metabolism and can produce a meditative effect. In nature, it is reflected in the sky, water, earth, and fire. It is associated with open spaces, intuition, imagination and inspiration. The Blues describes music, such as rhythm and blues, bluegrass and jazz. It is also associated with ideology like the democrats and blue states. 鈥淏lue has no dimension, it is beyond dimensions.鈥� - Yves Klein
Artists on show
- Amanda Jolley
- Andra Samelson
- Anna Shukeylo
- Beth Dary
- Bonny Leibowitz
- Brooke Nixon
- Bruce Halpin
- Camilla Fallon
- Caroline Young
- Christine Aaron
- Claudia Keep
- Cora Jane Glasser
- Dan Addington
- Dana Killion
- David A. Clark
- Denise Sfraga
- Diana Gonzalez Gandolfi
- Donald Martiny
- Elise Wagner
- Elizabeth Carol Winchester
- Elizabeth Gourlay
- Fukuko Harris
- Gary Crowder
- George McKim
- Holly Brown & Juan
- Howard Hersh
- Jeanne Heifetz
- Jeffrey Hirst
- Jennifer Drewitt
- Jenny Nelson
- Joanna Kidney
- Joanne Holtje
- Joe Morzuch
- Joyce Korotkin
- Judith Kruger
- Julie Snidle
- Karen Nielsen-Fried
- Kate Collyer
- Kathy Cantwell
- Laura Arteaga Charlton
- Laura Lou Levy
- Linda Bradford
- Lisa Frank
- Lisa Lackey
- Lisa Pressman
- Manuel Gomez
- Margaret Fitzgerald
- Marie Riccio
- Mark LaRiviere
- Mary DeVincentis
- Marybeth Rothman
- Melissa Lackman
- Michael Wagner
- Milisa Galazzi
- Mollie Douthit
- Mona Brody
- Nancy Natale
- Nancy Gail Ring
- Nancy Rubens
- Noa Bornstein
- Patricia Fabricant
- Rini Brakkee
- Robert Gamblin
- Sean Noonan
- Stacey Lawrence
- Stephanie Dalton
- Susan Lasch Krevitt
- Susan Stover
- Susan Taverna
- Tamar Zinn
- Valerie Corvin
- Yves Klein
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