Sep 5th – Sep 28th, 2024
Opening Reception: Sept 6, Friday, 6-8pm

There are three traits that describe every color: hue, value and chroma. Hue are the color families – the rainbow. Value means light or dark with Zero being black and Ten being pure white. Chroma is the strength or saturation of a color – it’s intensity, it’s purity.

Gallery C brings two artists who work is Maximum Chroma. Ana Guzman is a painter and George Snyder a sculptor. This exhibition explores how these two artists’ energic and bold use of color creates alluring artworks that engage and stimulate the viewer.

George Snyder, whose career dates to the 1970’s, presents a collection of free-standing tube objects. The cylinder-tube is the “most basic element” in his work Snyder says. The cylinders are assembled in geometric post-modern towers. The hard glazed surfaces are car paint, the pure colors so vibrant that they are almost phosphorescent. A coating of wax polishes the bursting color to a high lacquer shine. The surface is seductively smooth and sensual.

Ana Guzman, who hails from Cuba, paints scenes vibrating with life. Often using a palette knife, she applies pure color energetically to her canvas. The spontaneous exhilaration of her process is clearly transmitted to the viewer/participant. Her color choices, often set against pure white, create an invigorating atmosphere in her work.

Snyder is a precisionist of edge and style. Guzman is a master of controlled inexactness. Both employ Maximum Chroma to enhance their viewers emotions.

See videos with more information below!

A CONVERSATION WITH GEORGE SNYDER

A CONVERSATION WITH ANA GUZMAN