Complications in Color

This exhibition, Complications in Color, highlights the beauty of abstract art while revealing its deeper complexities. Traditionally, abstract art has been discussed in terms of pure form, often overlooking its psychological and political dimensions.

Artist Rachel Lachowicz challenges this view by using gendered materials and appropriation to reinterpret abstract objects, linking them to feminist ideas. This approach complicates the traditional, male-dominated history of hard-edge abstract painting.

Sculptor Terry O’Shea also expands the meaning of abstraction by incorporating lozenge-like shapes in his work. While these forms are rooted in the formalism of the light and space movement, they also hint at the effects of pharmaceuticals and hallucinogens.

The exhibition will also feature works by Florence Arnold, Karl Benjamin, and June Harwood, further exploring the layered meanings within abstraction.