DE NOVO
Spalding Nix Fine Art
Opening Reception
Friday, 22 MAR, 6-8 PM
Saturday, 23 MAR 12-4 PM
Browse and purchase works from the exhibition HERE.
The Color Interaction IV series challenges our ability to focus and perceive a single color independently. These paintings represent my fourth iteration of works inspired by Josef Albers’ exercises studying the interaction of color and Anni Albers’ textiles. The works mimic their combined attention to integrated craft, design, and art in both theory and application.
The mixed-media paintings are more closely related to printmaking than painting in their systematic approach to independent layers of color application. To depict multiple color relationships at the same time, each painted, airbrushed, or embroidered layer creates new shapes and proportions within the composition. As these shapes overlap with one another the interactions become increasingly complex. Each painting utilizes the same composition in different color palettes to better study their similarities and differences. The multiplicity and slight variations imparted by my hand imitate my printmaking practice.
The first layers are defined by fifteen concentric watercolor washes that increase in value and saturation. The softened corners and translucent edges appear out of focus in contrast with the hard edge of the next layer, a vertical accent airbrushed in concentrated watercolor. The final layer is a network of 7,650 glass beads, designed to create an illusion of simulated transparency, similar to the translucency experienced in a loosely woven textile. In combination, each layer challenges our eye’s ability to specify any one color relationship or identity when so many variables are changing simultaneously.
https://spaldingnixfineart.com/show/spalding-nix-fine-art-de-novo
Spalding Nix Fine Art
Opening Reception
Friday, 22 MAR, 6-8 PM
Saturday, 23 MAR 12-4 PM
Browse and purchase works from the exhibition HERE.
The Color Interaction IV series challenges our ability to focus and perceive a single color independently. These paintings represent my fourth iteration of works inspired by Josef Albers’ exercises studying the interaction of color and Anni Albers’ textiles. The works mimic their combined attention to integrated craft, design, and art in both theory and application.
The mixed-media paintings are more closely related to printmaking than painting in their systematic approach to independent layers of color application. To depict multiple color relationships at the same time, each painted, airbrushed, or embroidered layer creates new shapes and proportions within the composition. As these shapes overlap with one another the interactions become increasingly complex. Each painting utilizes the same composition in different color palettes to better study their similarities and differences. The multiplicity and slight variations imparted by my hand imitate my printmaking practice.
The first layers are defined by fifteen concentric watercolor washes that increase in value and saturation. The softened corners and translucent edges appear out of focus in contrast with the hard edge of the next layer, a vertical accent airbrushed in concentrated watercolor. The final layer is a network of 7,650 glass beads, designed to create an illusion of simulated transparency, similar to the translucency experienced in a loosely woven textile. In combination, each layer challenges our eye’s ability to specify any one color relationship or identity when so many variables are changing simultaneously.
https://spaldingnixfineart.com/show/spalding-nix-fine-art-de-novo
