On Particular Colors

Kristen Cliburn, Aaron Holz, Michael Lazarus, Laurel Sparks, & Jade Yumang

Opening Reception:
Saturday, July 12, 3-6PM

Color dazzles and gives pleasure, and yet, as seen in semaphore signals, national flags, team jerseys, bike gang colors or gay male hankie code, particular colors can overflow with meanings and associations for some while appearing to others as simple optical sensation. There are colors employed and presented by these 5 artists that in informed viewers evoke national identity, mystical powers, landscape hues, optical tests and historical flags.  Aesthetic concerns and classic color theory are present of course, but only in as much as they informed previous instances of these colors deployed.   Color, that basic building block of painterly experiences are researched, reiterated and critically deconstructed by these artists.