Chromatic Conversations

Louis Stern Fine Arts is pleased to present Chromatic Conversations, featuring works by Gabriele Evertz, James Little, Doug Ohlson, Robert Swain, and Sanford Wurmfeld. Color itself is the primary subject matter for these five New York-based painters, though each applies their own unique artistic approach to its exploration. The dialogue between artworks mirrors the artistic exchange amongst their creators, reflecting their years of personal and professional relationships. All are seasoned New York art educators: Little teaches at the Art Students League and Evertz, Ohlson, Swain, and Wurmfeld taught together over several decades at Hunter College. 

Each of these painters is primarily concerned with the meaning and experience of color, as well as the ways it informs and is mediated by shape, movement, and optical response. Their investigations of color relationships may appear straightforward at first glance, but under closer scrutiny reveal technical feats arising from many years of study and research into color theory and visual phenomenology. The conversations amongst and within these works reflect the multivalent experience of color perception and response: an emotive reaction centered on sensory or spiritual experience coexisting with the logical analysis of their organization.