Color Pop!
-
Installation Shots
-
Artwork
-
Press Release
Color Pop! is a bold celebration of vibrancy, energy, and visual impact. This exhibition brings together a diverse group of contemporary artists who harness the power of color to provoke emotion, challenge perception, and ignite imagination. From electric neons to saturated primaries, each work pulses with life, proving that color is far more than decoration—it's a language, a force, and a statement.
Across painting, collage, and works on paper, Color Pop! explores how color shapes our experience, reflects our identities, and responds to the world around us. Whether loud and playful or sharp and confrontational, these works invite you to see, feel, and think in technicolor. Featured artists include Linda Bradford, Koen Delaere, Jimmie James, Jacob Ouillette, Nik Shanlin, Chris Trueman and Vidvuds Zviedris.
Linda Bradford seeks to achieve the illusion of dimensionality in her work, employing custom-fabricated brushes to pull and push paint in a way that opens up space, making two dimensions appear to be three.
Koen Delaere is interested in the physical traces and accidents of the creative process, leading to a fast-paced, collaborative practice driven by chance and material experimentation. His current work features swirling textures and rippling surfaces, achieved by layering water- and turpentine-based paints with differing drying times to create dynamic tension.
Jimmie James’ paintings reflect, contain, and give witness to an intimacy he experiences in reference to being alive. The paintings contain their own meaning. They become a portal, a platform, and an invitation for others to listen to themselves.
Jacob Ouillette uses a simple language of brushstrokes and color in his paintings to conceive musical compositions: each brushstroke is a note, and the final painting a musical score. Ouillette carefully orchestrates the colors' arrangement and frequency, as well as the colors' properties. Dissatisfied with commercially available paints, he mixes his own to achieve a unique palette of saturated colors.
Nik Shanlin's work is the result of a singular creative process that melds elements of graphic design, computer programming and traditional painting. This approach is firmly rooted in the artist's background as a graphic designer, but visually draws from varied currents in abstract and modernist art. The textured, layered images invite a multiplicity of interpretations and possess a unique depth of field, at once flat and sculptural, which contributes to their alluring vibrancy.
Chris Trueman's electric canvases are dynamic in both their technique and palette. The artist begins by using varied tools, including brushes and squeegees, to apply paint gesturally to a raw canvas. He then uses masking to carefully map the positive and negative spaces of the work using acrylic spray paint, ultimately achieving the illusionistic character of the composition.
Vidvuds Zviedris transforms the canvas into a minefield of explosive color by using broad, gestural strokes. In a dizzying mixture of allusions to the natural world and to art historical canon, Zviedris elicits a transcendent beauty through his powerfully dynamic brushstrokes, making use of a full spectrum of contrasting colors.
-
Artists