Our exhibition explores the restorative properties of the color blue as we all move through a difficult moment in time, both globally and individually. We seek refuge in a color that has an entire genre of music named after it—music that wears hardship on its sleeve in order to feel a collective sigh of relief: Blues. Using the epic Blues song “How Blue Can You Get,” as made famous by B.B. King, we are investigating ways in which the color blue has been used: a distant horizon between sea and sky in Sally Michel Avery’s work, a vast expanse that is stitched together by Sidival Fila, and as messengers that conduct energy from this world to beyond in Beverly Pepper’s totemic works. Some artists, such as Cleve Gray, use blue activate an entire painting, even when the predominant color might be orange or red.
Works by:
Martine Bedin
Deborah Brown
Anthony Caro
Sidival Fila
Vera Girivi
Pam Glick
Cleve Gray
Sally Michel Avery
Dan Miller
Jeannette Montgomery Barron
Rob Ober
Beverly Pepper
Howardena Pindell
Alexis Rockman
Kikuo Saito
Laura de Santillana
Reza Shafahi
John Sonsini
Elisabetta Zangrandi
