More than 30 Washington museums, art galleries,
organizations, and businesses are taking part in “ColorField.remix,” the
largest painting tribute ever held in the Washington area. The event
celebrates the Color Field art movement—an abstract style of painting
characterized by canvases painted primarily with fields of solid colors,
stripes, and washes—of the 1950s and ’60s.
Running through July, ColorField.remix (which launched in April) includes exhibitions, public art projects, artist lectures, children’s programs, and events such as a specially designed Color Field window at Neiman Marcus in Chevy Chase, an exhibition of Color Field silkscreen prints at the Prada Gallery in Washington, and several lectures at the Textile Museum, including one on the history of color in fashion. Expect to see colors of every hue and tone from artists both renowned and lesser known.
Running through July, ColorField.remix (which launched in April) includes exhibitions, public art projects, artist lectures, children’s programs, and events such as a specially designed Color Field window at Neiman Marcus in Chevy Chase, an exhibition of Color Field silkscreen prints at the Prada Gallery in Washington, and several lectures at the Textile Museum, including one on the history of color in fashion. Expect to see colors of every hue and tone from artists both renowned and lesser known.
Gene Davis's Black Balloon.
Photo: Courtesy of Smithsonian American Art Museum
Black Balloon by Washington Color School painter Gene Davis is part of the "Gene Davis: Interval" exhibit at the Kreeger Museum, which runs through July 31.
Photo: Courtesy of Smithsonian American Art Museum
Studentspainted Davis-inspired stripes on Eighth Street between D and E Streetslast year as part of a public art project produced by the Corcoran College of Art and Design and the D.C. Commission on the Arts and Humanities. They did so again this year, on May 12.
Photo: Courtesy of D.C. Commission on the Arts and Humanities
Evocative of Davis's work is Peter Fox's , part of "The Cut Has a Finger," an exhibit at the Knew Gallery that runs through May 17.
Photo: Courtesy of Knew Museum
Artist Morris Lewis's Point of Tranquility is part of the "Morris Lewis Now: An American Master Revisited" exhibit at the Hirschorn Museum, which runs through January 6, 2008.
Photo: Courtesy of Hirshhorn Museum
Untitled byDavis is on display at the Kreeger.
Photo: Courtesy of Kreeger Museum
