Description:
Folio comprised of one original drawing, six rainbow screenprints and one copy of the artist's book "Upon the Pun" in box with cover sheet and colophon.
Label Text:
Label text from Curatorial Fellowship exhibition "Color in Containment," March 22 – April 29, 2018:
Patrick Hughes’ work is “concerned with optical and visual illusions, the science of perception and the nature of artistic representation.” In The Domestic Life of the Rainbow, a screenprint series made early in his career through a collaboration with Coriander Press, Hughes invites the viewer to encounter the rainbow, an ephemeral visual illusion, as a solidified object of pure color. The rainbows vibrate against their gray backgrounds as they sneak past doorways, arc through windows, and flop over chairs, activating the architectural space of the print. Far from keeping color contained, Hughes’ drab gray rooms grant his embodied rainbows the ideal environment to escape the bounds of their images and invite the viewer’s attention. The gray wall opposite these works mimics Hughes’ interiors allowing color to vibrate to its full capacity. The gray wall, the picture frame, and even the borders of the work of art itself as dictated by the artist serve to limit color. However, these limitations are what heighten color’s potency, allowing it to push against its containment and invite a more vivid encounter with the viewer. - Margaret Wilson (M.F.A. Studio Art 2019) and Alison Ritacco (M.A. Art History 2019)
2 Hughes, Patrick, “Biography,” http://www.patrickhughes.co.uk/
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