More Than Black & White
Beyond Color
Bedford Gallery
Ongoing – September 14
Detail of Frank’s It’s Never Just Black and White
The sculpture sits outside the Gallery, Perhaps it’s in a timeout, since it includes a soupçon of silver.
Exploring the complex simplicity and expressive power of artwork rendered exclusively in black and white, Bedford Gallery’s annual juried exhibition presents a stunning survey of 80 local, national, and international artists. Featuring a diverse range of work in a variety of mediums, Beyond Color highlights the remarkable ways artists harness the stark contrasts and subtle gradations of achromatic media to convey profound emotion, intricate detail, and striking composition.
L to R: Liell-Kok, Beginnings; Branwell, Intergenerational Horizons on a Thousand Plateaus; Quevedo, Chaos
Restricted to working within a limited palette, the absence of color invites deeper investigation of the principles of balance, line and space. Through these limitations the artists push the traditional boundaries of creative expression, revealing expansive and innovative ways of conveying narrative, emotion, discourse and reflection.
🧡 A special surprise treat awaits as the installation includes the works of two Friends of SLAA. Demo Artists Debra Collins (Papercutting) and Denise Howard (Colored Pencil)
Collins’ amazing papercutting and insert of detail from Have Mercy.
Howard’s usual exquisite colored pencil looking more like a painting than a drawing in All That I Once Was Is Lost.
