Placing Color: Boston University

Exhibition Website www.placingcolor.com

Essay

"Brett Baker, Kayla Mohammadi, and Carrie Patterson each work within a set of carefully circumscribed parameters in order to advance the discourse of abstract painting. “Advancement” here is not meant to suggest an inevitable linear path, but rather the urge to continue, deepen, and reinvent their practice, with full knowledge of previous developments but no sense of obligation to them... ...These painters create space, both pictorial and abstract. But more importantly they create a space, or a gathering place, a site for us to be with the painting and with each other." from the catalogue essay by Vittorio Colaizzi Read the entire essay

About

Painting, the simple means of placing color on a flat surface, is extraordinary in its ability to transport us from the context of our daily existence to new places - complete, vibrant worlds within the boundaries of the rectangle. Beyond its traditional role as a place of illusion, the painted surface itself is a location, a destination defined by the artist's actions upon it.

Placing Color is an exhibition that explores painting as both a place of action and a destination. The exhibition presents paintings by three artists: Brett Baker, Kayla Mohammadi , and Carrie Patterson. Seen together their intensely individual approaches create places that are both intimate and immense, unified by a sensitivity to the means of painting – touch and color.