Hoping to leave a long, grey winter behind? Jump head first into spring with @thisopenspace’s latest pop-up: a salon-style exhibit called #TheColourShow featuring 10 emerging artists reflecting on colour.
“Colour is the main premise; I thought it was fitting because it’s spring. Some artists are working in abstraction and some are very figurative. It doesn’t really matter because it’s about colour,” says curator Holly Goldsmith-Jones. The pieces she’s included in the show ask viewers to think about what role colour (or the absence of) plays in art, beyond esthetics. Can it help signify a particular concept? Does it have the power to produce an embodied response in the viewer?
Show pieces include a mix of abstract oil and acrylic paintings, pencil drawings, watercolours and one sculpture (CMYK by Melissa King). Walk through a loose, life-size version of the colour spectrum, beginning with pink on one side of the room and continuing into red, yellow, green, gold and, eventually, back to pink. There are also handmade colouring books for sale by artist Amelia Garvin.
As for the couple works in black and white, our curator explains that, even though the theme is colour, she “didn’t just want it to be bright.” Besides, these hue-lacking pieces should trigger as much thought on the concept of colour as those that draw on the rainbow. —Shannon Tien
Check out #TheColourShow @thisopenspace until April 15th at 434 Columbia Street, Vancouver, 778-839-2828, www.thisopenspace.ca
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