Color: Visible Windows

A window: an opening that is fitted in a frame to admit light or air and allow people to see out.

While their impulses and methodologies differ, Amanda Bylone, Kim Manfredi, and Valerie Suter, are all painters interested in color and its powerful role in art-making.

Translucency, texture and unsettling color are central for Amanda Bylone’s transparent paintings. Appropriating explicit imagery from films, music videos, as well as art diaries and photographic archives, she inverts the image's traditional color to create emotive scenes touching on archetypal roles that simultaneously envelop and elide the social constructions of femininity.

Kim Manfredi’s swooping brushstrokes, curious marks and loosely drawn forms twist and turn into colorful abstractions. Her paintings are filled with signifiers and self inquiry informed by her bike rides and studio practice in the Mojave Desert.

Valerie Suter uses the expressive quality of color to imbue her vivid compositions with emotive content. Drawn from history and her own life, the subjects of her portraits gaze intently at the viewer, communicating a spectrum of experiences and feelings including vulnerability, passion, despair, and determination.

The three artists, each with an east coast history, bring to this show works of art that act like a window. Each painting depicts, through the difficulty of color, a glimpse into the unifying aspect of their work.

Amanda, Kim, and Valerie’s work touch on subjects like place, home, and the female perspective, but they refuse to be confined by imaginary boundaries like figuration, abstraction, thick or thin. The artists propose an exhibition that examines color operations, color as material, color as a means of opening a window to the adjustment, dissatisfaction, struggle and hope involved in making art.

April 22 – July 5