Joan Snyder: Shaping Color Group exhibition at the Longlati Foundation

Shaping Color places color in a position that calls for renewed reflection. Color has always been among the most immediate, and also the most complex, elements of visual experience. It shapes the rhythm of looking, the layering of space, the temperature of the picture, and it participates in the judgments through which perception and imagination take form. Color exists across painting, design, architecture, consumer goods, screen images, and industrial production. It has already become a highly condensed and widely circulating artistic language that speaks directly to the eye. For precisely this reason, color naturally occupies a central place in artistic practice and should be understood as one of the artist’s fundamental disciplines.