Tag: Color
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Jonas Wood Turns Tennis Courts into Color Experiments in New Gagosian Show
Jonas Wood has been watching sports his whole life, and the habit has followed him into the studio. “I played tons of sports when I was a kid and I was obsessed with following them,” Wood said, speaking with me by Zoom from his Los Angeles studio. “I used to read the entire sports section read more
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Meet Cute: Collaboratove Duo DABSMYLA Communicates through Color, Pop Culture & The Power of Piles of Cute – Hi-Fructose Magazine
The project did come with challenges. For artists who cross over into the mainstream commercial realm, growing pains come with the growing venues that contain their vision. “Because we had only ever built experiences like this for gallery settings, one of the main things was that we didn’t take into consideration television and camera angles read more
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Mitchell Johnson’s Personal Color at Galerie Mercier in Paris
Announcement Intimate paintings spanning nearly four decades of the artist’s career are on view at the gallery from February 28 to March 21. Mitchell Johnson “Red Stairwell (Rue Guisarde)” (2025), 16×24 inches, oil on canvas (©Mitchell Johnson, 2026) In his continued exploration of color, shape, and scale, American painter Mitchell Johnson presents 25 intimate paintings read more
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How White Elites Drained Ancient Art of Its Color
In the autumn of 2022, Max and I walked up the iconic steps of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City to visit Chroma: Ancient Sculpture in Color. As the young son of a professional classicist, and a burgeoning one himself, my museum partner already knew about the ancient history of painted statues read more
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With 200+ Artworks, 'Rainbow Dreams' Revels in the Vast Creativity of the Color Spectrum
From Do Ho Suh’s ethereal architecture to Kimsooja’s irridescent mirrors to Lauren Halsey’s fringed tapestry, a new book from Monacelli celebrates a broad spectrum of light and color. Rainbow Dreams features more than 200 installations, sculptures, paintings, photographs, and more that revel in the possibilities of pigment. Bound in a smooth gradient that extends to read more
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Through Vivid Color, Martin Wittfooth Revels in Surreal Worlds
A parrot confined to a too-small cage, jellyfish floating above fungi and ferns, and a spotted octopus resting as the centerpiece to a flourishing bouquet are a few of the surreal scenes in the works of Martin Wittfooth. The artist is known for his enigmatic paintings that meld flora and fauna to consider interconnection and read more
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MFA Boston Says Layoffs Did Not ‘Disproportionately Impact’ People of Color
On Thursday night, the Museum of Fine Arts Boston issued a lengthy explanation about a recent round of layoffs that drew controversy, in part because many claimed the cuts unfairly targeted curators of color. The museum denied that this was the case. “All along, we took steps to ensure that cuts would not disproportionately impact read more
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Oscar Joyo Harnesses Color and Pattern With Latest Works – Hi-Fructose Magazine
Oh, were you referring to IN GROWN or OVERCAST? Yeah, I really enjoyed making those pieces…..Both of those pieces come from similar head spaces from songs, paintings or media depicting forms or phases more vibrant than the one before. Speaking of which, please describe how your chromesthesia (the ability to see colors when hearing sounds) read more
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Okuda: Full Color Chaos – Hi-Fructose Magazine
In 2014, Okuda was introduced to the Santa Barbara church in Asturias. Originally built in 1912 as a place of worship for the workers of an explosives factory in the northern Spanish town of Llanera, the building was abandoned after the Spanish Civil War. Nearly a century later, a local skateboarding collective in Spain known read more
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