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February Issue 2007
Somerhill Gallery in Chapel Hill, NC, Presents Exhibition Based on the Color Blue
Somerhill Gallery in Chapel Hill, NC, is presenting the exhibition, Things that are BLUE, an exploration of artwork expressed with blue pigment. The exhibit featuring works by twenty-four artists, presenting various media and subject matter, will be on view through Feb. 16, 2007.
Participation artists include: Carol Bechtel, John Beerman, Ben Berns, Mark Brown, R.J. Clark, Ann Conner, Genevieve Cotter, Jason Craighead, Michael Dubina, Yale Epstein, Patrick Glover, Norbert Irvine, Herb Jackson, Mildred Jarrett, Shirley Kelley, Ed Kellog, Robert Langford, Henry Link, Elizabeth Matheson, Dan Miller, Ryan Russell, Nicole Strassburg, Guilermo Velesco, and Henry Williams.
Somerhill Gallery Director Joseph Rowand commented, "I have recently concentrated on all the variance and stimulus that come from artist's use of the color blue in their paintings. An idea sprung forth: I began to focus on how we react to a range of satisfying emotions when confronted by the nuances and differences of the color blue."
"We feel bright and exuberant when viewing a perfect shy. The color blue is also associated with coldness as well as with comfort and soothing. It expresses ideas of infinity, tradition as well as stability. Blue is often though of to symbolize honesty and trustworthiness as well as stability, think of a man in a blue business suit."
"We have come to realize blue chip denotes excellent financial shape, a blueprint to design something, blues in music is a recognizable music term. The god Zeus made rain to dampen our spirits to make us feel blue and to blue sky describes an ability to conceptualize or create from nothing. And now an exploration of all things blue at Somerhill Gallery, as rare as a bluemoon."
For further information check our NC Commercial Gallery listings, call the gallery at 919/968-8868 or visit (www.somerhill.com).
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