In Living Color is a group exhibition that presents a chromatic study from a wide range of artists, including assume vivid astro focus, Kristin Baker, Olaf Breuning, Dan Colen, Mark Grotjahn, Anselm Reyle, Gerhard Richter, Fred Tomaselli, Cy Twombly, and Rachel Whiteread. The majority of the artworks in the exhibition were completed in the past two years, many are on view for the first time in the U.S., and several have never been exhibited prior to this show.

Among the newly completed works are Kristin Baker’s Once in a Mooning, 2011, which depicts a night sky streaked with hues of luminescent blue and injected with electrifying pink. Dan Colen created Zero for Conduct, 2011, a flower painting of deep reds, purples, and blues specifically for the exhibition.

Several works in In Living Color will be on view in the U.S. for the first time. Gerhard Richter’s digital print Strip, 2011, is comprised of a system of parallel lines generated by dividing an earlier abstract painting by the artist vertically into a pattern of 8190 strips. Cy Twombly’s Leaving Paphos Ringed with Waves (IV), 2009, which was shown in Athens at the last gallery exhibition of his work prior to the artist’s passing, employs rich tones of turquoise with vermilion and yellow to portray the Mediterranean landscape and reference ancient literature and mythology. Rachel Whiteread’s sculpture A.M., 2011, from her last show in Rome , inhabits the negative space within a windowpane, utilizing a jewel-like pink resin.

The exhibition explores color in a variety of contexts and ranges: within a framework of order and chaos, as a signifier of time and place, in relation to the medium of the work, and in monochromatic forms.

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