Placing Color – Lot’s of It!

Gordon Fraser — Tue, 28 Apr 2009 15:29:53 +0000

Today seems to be about color, but as I look around my cube all I see is black white and gray. OH NO……… I’ve got to get out and get down to see this exhibit at the Painting Center in Soho.

Placing Color is an exhibition that explores painting as both a place of action and destination. The exhibition presents paintings by three artists: Brett Baker, Kayla Mohammadi, and Carrie Patterson. Seen together, the artists’ intensely individual approaches create places that are both intimate and immense, unified by sensitivity to the means of painting in ways of touch and color.

Painting, the simple means of placing color on a flat surface, is extraordinary in its ability to transport us from the context of our daily existence to new places – complete, vibrant worlds within the boundaries of a two-dimensional frame. Placing Color seeks to reposition the works by the participating artists beyond an interpretation of painting as a site of illusion. The exhibition extends the notion of the painted surface itself as a location or a destination that is defined by the artist’s actions upon it.{Read More…}

Brett Baker / untitled / oil on canvas / 96 x 108 inches / 2006 / www.brettbakerpaintings.com

www.brettbakerpaintings.com

Carrie Patterson / 18 Feet St. Francis Xavier / Acrylic on Linen / 2008 / www.carriepatterson.com

www.carriepatterson.com

Kayla Mohammadi / Here and Now II / 2006 / oil on canvas / 30" x 40" / www.kaylamohammadi.com

www.kaylamohammadi.com