October 5 - 29, 2023
From Link & Pin Gallery:
“The name of this show, Chroma+Lux, derives from CHROMA, from the Greek khrōma meaning color, and LUX, from Latin, meaning light. Without light, there is no color. Without color, light becomes night. Geometric patterns, the building blocks of our visual world and our visual guideposts for navigating through it, bring meaning to color and light. Patterns reflect our sense of order – but they can also produce illusion, the impression of colors that are not “there”, the sense of movement where nothing is really moving. These artworks provide a window into how we turn our sense of color, light, and pattern into abstractions of the physical world around us. Any given abstraction can be a mistake, a mystery, a challenge for the intellect – and beautiful to behold.
Exhibition Dates: October 5 through October 29, 2023
Opening Reception: Thursday, October 5, 2023, 6-8 pm
Artists’ talk: Thursday, October 19, 7:30 pm. Gallery open 6-9 pm
Gallery hours: Thursday – Saturday, 1-5 pm
Larry Akers is a constructive sculptor with mathematics and computer science degrees; his career included formal methods for computing, artificial intelligence, and software engineering. This background has led him to an affinity for pattern that infuses artwork in which he explores both pattern and color with complexity and nuance. He honors Carlos Cruz-Diez, Bridget Riley, and Jesus Soto in his work for this show. eyeplaystudio.ne
Janet Brooks is a visual artist, book designer, and art educator. She is a 2nd generation student of Josef Albers [1888–1976], the master colorist – two of her professors were his students at Yale, where he taught after leaving the Bauhaus in Germany. Her pure-abstraction series of designs, drawings, paintings, and serigraphs combine color and pattern in varied compositions that celebrate mental and visual geometric play. She is further inspired by Wassily Kandinsky, Richard Anuszkiewicz, and Vincent Mariani. www.JanetBrooks.com
Larry and Janet were neighbors in their college days at the University of Texas at Austin. Years later, they crossed paths at art shows and found that they both have a love of color, pattern, and abstraction in art. This exhibition is an exciting intersection of styles, methods, and materials – while some works are similar, others are quite divergent.”
Reception: October 5, 2023 | 6–8 pm
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