Color Soirée: Macro Vision is less a history of ANDart, and more an articulated idea which traverses the subjectivity of its point of view. The approach is both one of addition - a gradual visual and theoretical expansion - and of subtraction - the simplification and the optimization of its artwork. ANDart shows an exciting way to experience color and its relationship to light and space, shadow and reflection within specific contextual environments. Macro Vision means to turn introversion and detachment from surroundings to extroversion capable of absorbing an atmospheric space.

Color is Perpetually Transformative

As a departure from the past, images of indoor/outdoor surrounds are presented in regard to emotional response and value judgement of color, I.e. human behavior. - Mexican architect Luis Barragan (1902-1988) was considered an "arbiter" of color and light and their relation to spacial paradigms. His work reflected the spirit of location and was influenced by local aesthetics. Contemporary art is the logical result of what happened in the past, so just as Barragan had been inspired by Le Corbusier (Franco-Swiss architect) and Bauhaus (German) concepts (Kandinsky, Albers), so did he influence U.S. artists Dan Flavin and Agnes Martin.

-  Pay to Park, we see the other extreme, the concrete structure of a parking garage with imposing silent walls casting shadows across a motionless space waiting for some event to happen. The indecisive, tentative quality of the space is interrupted with colorful shapes that relieve tension.

-  The decisive nature of past events might make Altar and Belgium feel temporary, fragile and heavy. Saturated colors help stabilize what could be an emotional viewing experience.

-  Super Cart likes "white light" and black.

-  Trash Heaps stimulated the making of the Box Top Series: Color as Content.

-  Cans lights up in a spectrum of color used boldly to reflect advertising methods with

consumer appeal.

-  Lobby, superimposed optical abstraction, neutral gray absorbs the colors to influence color

and space perception

Color perception is contextual in terms of abstract sensations that can be generated in all media - pigment, ink, dye. Color is subjective and can be excited in various ways by external stimuli (environment) or internal bodily conditions (human). (Color theory- Wikipedia)

Pay 2 Park

Erik R. Peterson

digital collage

Ofrenda/Altar

Erik R. Peterson

installation/digital photograph

Belgium

Mimi Peterson

digital photograph

Super Cart

Erik R. Peterson

digital photograph

Trash Heaps

Mimi Peterson

digital photograph

Box Top #5

Mimi Peterson

assemblage

CANS (From the SuperMarket Series)

 Erik R. Peterson

Digital photograph 

Lobby

Erik R. Peterson 

Digital collage

October 2016

Making the most of the past five months:

[email protected]  (launched April, 2016) continues to provide a brief but evocative picture of the original idea that experiments with select fine art in the healthcare environment.  

Color Soirée (coming October) will introduce a more specific relationship between our artwork and designed space through color.

ANDart has taken it upon itself to design an art program that is a template for building a symbiosis of mutual esteem and exchange of ideas that envisage color-coded healthcare facilities.  Six artists offer six typologies about health and healing, human and nature.  The original works, alternatively capturing traces of memory and visions of future, want for placement in a context often characterized by vernacular cliches.  Their strength is in "...using the physics of color to model space, ...to compose with color as we have done with forms ...". (Le Corbusier).  

Color Soirée presents a micro-story of our work - painting, printmaking, photography, drawing, collage, sculptural assemblage - through subtle photo close-ups, revealing variations on color and texture in a grid composite.  It is all about freedom of color, range of palette, aesthetic refinement and interpretation of experiences.  Each artist in reconciling their concept has skillfully interpreted colors as reflective (transience), complex (permanence), ethereal (fragility) and practiced polychromatic balance (solidity).

To follow: more Color Soiree, a macro-history of the artwork. The intent is to present a series of sequenced images in surrounds that underlie their color effect.

ANDart, as an urban ensemble of artists, encourages the concept of social planning through art and design in the belief that the audience will come to realize the importance of artwork to health, wellness, and healing.