May 20 – August 14, 2015
Opening Reception:
Friday May 22, 2015 / 7 – 9PM
SMI Gallery @ Academy Square
33 Plymouth Street (1st Floor)
Montclair, NJ 07042
HOURS:
Monday-Friday 7am-7pm
973-744-1818
studiomontclair@aol.com
The subject is water; the tool is color. This exhibit shows how artists use color to accomplish their goals. Water – So many states of being, yet always so powerful: rushing or dripping, literal or figurative, profoundly transitional or silent. Color – Color works hard: Color relationships, moving the eye, establishing the foreground and background relationship, describing space and depth, communicating emotion. Color is soft, spare and barely visible; or crushing, mean and lacerating. Color is everything, the most powerful tool.
Water/Color features the artwork of Amy Becker, Shirley Cartey, Jeanette Centano, Gwen Charles, RitaMarie Cimini, Noel Farese, David Frank, Joan Gantz, Elizabeth Ginsberg, Madeline Giotta, Karen Goldberg, Linda Brooks Hirschman, Rachel Kaflowicz, Martha Kerr, Catherine Kinkade, Janos Korodi, David Lakra, Gina Casolaro Murray, Nancy Ori, Arthur Paxton, Lisa Redburn, Logan Redmount, Bob Ricciotti, Matt Roberts, Phillipa Scott, Hilary Shank-Kuhl, Brian Stymest, and Irv Suss
Juror: Marcie Cooperman
Marcie Cooperman is the author of Color: How to Use It, 2013, published by Pearson, the first and only textbook for Color Theory. Marcie is Professor of Color Theory in the Art Media and Technology Dept. at Parsons the New School for Design, as well as Professor of Fashion Marketing, and Fashion Marketing Management, in the Parsons Fashion Department. She has also been a Professor of Color Theory at Pratt Institute of Design, where she taught for many years in the Industrial Design Department, and Graduate Communications Design Department.
Marcie’s watercolors are represented by William Ris gallery. www.fashionworkshop.com carries her blog about color and design, a discussion of color in fashion, interior, communications and industrial design. Her Color Theory videos can be seen at www.universityoffashion.com. You can find Marcie’s Color Matters on her blog www.marciecooperman.com, where her work promotes learning and expands the reader’s knowledge about how to use color. Marcie also writes feature stories about art and color for www.attheedge.com art magazine.
In the design and corporate worlds, Marcie conducts workshops, corporate presentations and educational seminars on Color Theory, and Using Color, for artist groups, industrial design companies and beauty companies such as L’Oreal, and has taught color theory, oil painting, watercolor, and trompe l’oeil painting at the Newark Museum since 1994.