The color palette an artist picks for their work is one of the most important aspects of a painting. In the new exhibition I Love Hue at Robert Lange Studios in Charleston, South Carolina, artists will “pay homage to a tube of paint they cannot live without.” Each participating artist was asked to create one work for the show based around a specific color from a specific brand of paint. Hanging next to each work will be a new tube of the color paint selected so visitors can see how it can be transformed in a painting.
Joshua Flint, Infinity Pool, oil on canvas, 36 x 48"
Joshua Flint’s Infinity Pool primarily features dioxazine purple along with other shades of violet, which Flint says, “makes the painting feel more like a dream state since purple is associated with the dream world.” He adds, “I often use color as a way to bring the viewer to ‘another place,’ whether it’s emotional or cerebral, or both. I employ color to generate a type of mood that I feel is important to my artistic process.”
Kerry Simmons, Hand Towel, Prismacolor colored pencil on Pastelmat, 20 x 16"
Holbein Permanent Yellow was the color selected by artist Robert C. Jackson for his painting titled after the show, I Love Hue. “I’m not one of those with a favorite brush or tube of paint usually. But, I’ve always loved yellow, have started all my paintings with yellow and to me it is a vibrancy of life. And when asked to do this show, of course, knew my color had to be yellow but thought it was an odd concept. Paint is just paint,” says Jackson. “Now researching it has really made me wonder...infants love yellow more than any color...but that gets lost and the least favorite color for adults is yellow. Egads. What’s wrong with me? Regardless, I centered my work on yellow for I Love Hue, loving it enough that I pressed my hands and fingerprints into my yellow and made my mark. Not really as simple as it looks as these aren’t actual crates, the handprints go in spots I have to scrape back out and repaint over.”
Marina Dieul, Chat 28, oil on panel, 12 x 12"
In the work Hand Towel—depicting a girl in a fancy dress that she views “just as handy as any rag or hand towel”—Kerry Simmons used a light peach Prismacolor colored pencil for most of the piece. “It’s essential for most skin tones and for the pink dress as well. I asked my niece to model for this piece; the idea is to show the depth of who she is as a person, pretty and delicate but also rough and tumble,” Simmons says. “Sometimes in imagery children can be flattened and made two dimensional, [but] I wanted to show a fuller picture of who a child can be. My niece loves to wrestle as much as she loves to cuddle! She is both sweet and tough at the same time.”
Robert C. Jackson, I Love Hue, oil on linen, 14 x 18"
Known for her small-scale paintings of mice and cats, Marina Dieul will present Chat 28 for this show. Explaining the subject, she says, “The day I realized that I could merge both my passion for Trompe l’Oeil and for felines was a glorious day, and over the years of fostering kittens for a local shelter I certainly didn’t lack of inspiration.” The work features Transparent Oxide Red by Kama Pigments, which Dieul uses when she paints red cats because “it allows me to play with the transparency of the paint while keeping the intensity of the chroma.”
I Love Hue opens with a reception on October 1 from 5 to 8 p.m. and will be on view through the end of the month. —
Robert Lange Studios
2 Queen Street • Charleston, SC 29401
(843) 805-8052 • www.robertlangestudios.com
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