North Room
Alyson Shotz
Chroma
May 30 - June 29, 2013
Opening Reception: Thursday, May 30, 6-8pm
Derek Eller Gallery is pleased to present Chroma by Alyson Shotz.
Chroma expands upon Alyson Shotz’s ongoing interest in the perception and sensation of color. The sculpture, a half sphere laminated inside with thin strips of clear acrylic and dichroic film, appears to be full of color that shifts as the viewer moves. However, there is no intrinsic color to any of the material. Instead it is the physical properties of the metallic oxides in the dichroic film that cause different wavelengths of light to either reflect or transmit some wavelengths more than others. This causes the color of the sculpture to change depending upon the viewer’s spatial relationship to it, in addition to the added variables of angle and intensity of incident light. In collaboration with environmental and viewer interaction,Chroma is a vehicle for the experience of intense pure color.
Alyson Shotz has a current solo exhibition at the Edythe and Eli Broad Museum, East Lansing, MI. Recent solo exhibitions include The Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indianapolis, IN; The Phillips Collection, Washington, D.C.; Espace Louis Vuitton, Tokyo, Japan; and the Borås Konstmuseum, Borås, Sweden. Her work is included in the permanent collections of the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington D.C., San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, and Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, among others.
Derek Eller Gallery is located at 615 West 27th Street, between 11th and 12th Avenues. Hours are Tuesday - Saturday, 11am - 6pm. For further information or visuals, please contact the gallery at 212.206.6411 or visit www.derekeller.com.