Rini Brakkee
Dana Killion
The Painting Center presents The Blues, an exhibition that explores the multifaceted color of “Blue”. 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’t say we feel red or green. We can feel blue. It’s 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. “Blue has no dimension, it is beyond dimensions.” - Yves Klein
The Blues artists are Christine Aaron, Dan Addington, Noa Bornstein, Linda Bradford, Rini Brakkee, Mona Brody, Holly Brown & Juan Manuel Gomez, Laura Charlton, David A. Clark, Kate Collyer, Valerie Corvin, Gary Crowder, Stephanie Dalton, Beth Dary, Mary DeVincentis, Mollie Douthit, Jennifer Drewitt, Patricia Fabricant, Camilla Fallon, Margaret Fitzgerald, Lisa Frank, Milisa Galazzi, Robert Gamblin, Cora Jane Glasser, Diana Gonzalez Gandolfi, Elizabeth Gourlay, Bruce Halpin, Fukuko Harris, Jeanne Heifetz, Howard Hersh, Jeffrey Hirst, Joanne Holtje, Amanda Jolley, Claudia Keep, Joanna Kidney, Dana Killion, Joyce Korotkin, Judith Kruger, Lisa Lackey, Melissa Lackman, Mark LaRiviere, Susan Lasch Krevitt, Stacey Lawrence, Bonny Leibowitz, Laura Lou Levy, Donald Martiny, George McKim, Joe Morzuch, Nancy Natale, Jenny Nelson, Karen Nielsen-Fried, Brooke Nixon, Sean Noonan, Marie Riccio, Nancy Gail Ring, Marybeth Rothman, Nancy Rubens, Andra Samelson, Denise Sfraga, Anna Shukeylo, Julie Snidle, Susan Stover, Susan Taverna, Elise Wagner, Michael Wagner, Elizabeth Carol Winchester, Caroline Young and Tamar Zinn.
