Color as Composition

Color as Composition By Phoebe Wiley On view: May 2 – 30 Opening: Sat, May 9 | 3-5pm Exhibition statement: Studies in how juxtaposed colors relate, contrast to one another to come forward, recede, move around, create rhythm emotion, intensity, and form. About the artist: I was overwhelmed this morning by the RED dahlias in my garden. The story of my life! Since childhood the observation of color in nature has overtaken my senses and compelled me to think about it and recreate it. This intensity of feeling has led me to a very long life as a painter. For many years I worked as an impressionist painter observing the play of light and color in still lives and landscapes, analyzing how to use gestural marks of color to describe objects in the picture. I recently learned to let go of all figuration to concentrate on the color itself to create the composition. Website