Complications in Color

Complications in Color will celebrate the beauty of abstraction while also exploring how abstract art can be more complicated than it may appear. Historically, discussion of abstraction has focused on “purity” of form and ignored psychological and political contexts. Rachel Lachowicz uses the gendered codes of materiality and appropriation to recontextualize abstract objects as catalysts for feminist thought. In this light, the historical narrative of hard-edge abstract painting, and the inherent sexism of its canonization, is made more complex. Sculptor Terry

O’Shea also expands on abstraction through his use of lozenge forms, which grow out of the formalism of the light and space movement but also connote the chemical influence of pharmaceuticals or hallucinogens. The exhibition will also include work by Florence Arnold, Karl Benjamin, and June Harwood.