RENEWAL THROUGH COLOR Curated by Berta Walker Reception Friday, March 29th from 5-7pm
Gallery creator and curator Berta Walker is pleased to announce the opening spring exhibition, “RENEWAL THROUGH COLOR.”
"Renewal Through Color" features an expansive selection of figurative, expressionist and abstract art made by artists represented by the BWG dating as far back as the late 1900s on to today, “I noticed as we started to select the art for this exhibition, that many of the pieces seemed to anchor in the color orange,” says Walker. “Curious, I looked up the meaning of that color. Orange is the body’s 2nd energy chakra, the creative chakra. It enhances the feelings of warmth, enthusiasm, stimulation, nurturing, happiness, freedom, fascination and relates to our ability to experience pleasure.
We are emerging from a long very emotional winter world-wide, feeling compassion alongside our angst over our inability to solve the horrors of war, fires, earthquakes, poverty, starvation. But the miracle of the arts — visual, musical, rhythm, in words and movement — is that they very importantly nurture the spirit.”Walker loves the challenge of gallery-wide group exhibitions and remains amazed at what pieces of art “request" wall space in the moment, and which other works those pieces want to create with.
As Hans Hofmann once posited: “Relations ‘in the creative sense’ are of a supersensory nature. Creation depends entirely on the inner vision of the artist…Its meaning can only be extended through relation with other things in a process of metamorphosis. This is then creation.” Walker adds: to the artists’ creations, viewers bring in their own special and personal component of spirit and emotional response; often, that is when the art finds its most perfect home.”
Lucy Clark, Pamet Evening, 2023 Oil on panel 12 x 12 in
