the Indivisible Spectrum
Exhibition Dates: february 1 - 26, 2022
Reception: Thursday, february 3, 5pm - 8pm
Alison Causer
Gosha Karpowicz
The Painting Center is pleased to present the exhibition, The Indivisible Spectrum, curated by JoAnne McFarland, Perri Neri, Kristin Osterberg. This group exhibition of sixteen artists from The Painting Center’s Art File is on view from February 1–26, 2022 in the Main Gallery.
The Indivisible Spectrum explores how the creative process is powered by infinitesimal shifts artists make between colors, shapes, sizes, and media. In this time mired in political polarization, artists mediate all of the ‘gray areas’ between extremes in order to create works of art. The concept for The Indivisible Spectrum comes from JoAnne McFarland, Artistic Director of Artpoetica Project Space in Gowanus, Brooklyn. McFarland was The Golden Paint Fellow at The Painting Center, 2020–2021.
The Indivisible Spectrum highlights the work of sixteen Art File artists who harness the textures and tones of the visible spectrum (the range of colors humans can see) while reaching for artistic statements that lie beyond easy comprehension.
The word indivisible is the longest word in the Pledge of Allegiance. It remains mesmerizing in its potentiality, and as a symbol of what we may yet achieve as citizens and makers.
The artists in The Indivisible Spectrum include Robin Adsit, Susan Barrett, Scott Bennett, Alison Causer, Michel Droge, Teresa Dunn, Philip Gerstein, George Herman, Gosha Karpowicz, Douglas Newton, Lin Price, Naomi Schlinke, Virginia Sharkey, Kevin Sloan, Laura Von Rosk, Stella Zhang.
