Installation images of "Painting Time" Exhibition. At Brattleboro Museum through September 24th
My solo exhibition, Painting Time, curated by Mara Williams, opened on Friday June 22nd and will run through September 24.
One the wall, Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter : Yellow Trail. Each 20 x 30 inches, acrylic on museum board, 2014. Each band of color is recreated from one in nature and placed on the painting in the order in which they were found on the hiking trail they were collected on.
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Installation images of Landscape As Time
My solo show at 57W57thArts is up and open for viewing on Wednesday - Saturday, noon- 5p through June 9th. (Please note: the gallery will be closed for a private event on June 4th)
Spring, Yellow Trail and Summer, Yellow Trail
72 colors found during one year on the Yellow Trail, acrylic on polyester resin film, dimensions variable, 2016
Fall, Yellow Trail and Winter, Yellow Trail
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The artwork in this gallery is about time. The landscape was used as a time-keeping device. I captured time passing by documenting the change in color within the landscape at the same location (New Berlin, NY) over the course of a year. I think of each painting as a landscape; a pure landscape, reduced to the actual found colors.
Making the work required capturing colors from nature, over one year, and transforming them to paint. I returned to the same trail in the forest. I visited this trail in the spring, summer, fall, and winter. Each time I walked the trail, I took a photo every 100 steps. 18 photos were taken on each walk. One color was selected from each photo to be mixed into a paint color. Once back in the studio, I mixed colors with the aide of a program that interprets the color I select from a photo into a paint formula. There are 72 distinct colors marking this one year of time.
Each season is represented as an individual painting and the entire year as the installation on the floor. Spring and Summer are on the left, Fall and Winter on the right, as you face the floor installation “72 colors found during one year on the Yellow Trail”
As I worked on this project I was reminded of Josef Albers' statement: "There is a profound harmony in the immeasurable spectrum of color."
Debra Ramsay
2016
Generative Processes Exhibition listed among "Best Art Exhibits of 2015"
Color changes in the forest, during one year, at the same location., 6inches X 12 feet 9 inches, acrylic on Juan silk, 2015 at TSA NY, Brooklyn, NY.
Big **THANKS!!** to Brooklyn Magazine and artist/writer Paul Behnke for including Generative Processes, the exhibition of Alex Paik and my work in their "Best of ...2015" list.
A few catalogs from the exhibition remain, which includes an essay by Rose Art Museum Director Emeritus, Carl Belz. Let me know if you'd like a copy.
The Shape It Takes at The Art Garage
News of the exhibition was published in The Cheshire Patch
One Year of Color
Acrylic on polyester film, 8 feet square, 2015