Joanne Mattera Art Blog: Color! The Glorious RGB

Don’t confuse them. One is the beloved Supreme Court Justice. The other, with the flip of a letter, refers to the color wheel used in electronic media. Much as we hold dear the inimitable—and, we hope, immortal—Ruth Bader Ginsburg, RGB refers to the three colors that combine to produce the range of hues we see in electronic devices. For this curated post we focus on The Glorious RGB. In other words: C O L O R  and all its variations of hue and saturation, tint and tone. 

All images (c) the individual artists

Doreen McCarthy

While many images here feature paintings and works on paper, a number of other mediums step outside those parameters–sculpture, installation, and prints, as you can see in these opening images–as well as assemblage, light sculpture, cyanotype, photography, digital drawing, and work in fiber, cardboard, wax, and the detritus of family life. Most of the works you see here are recent, but I encouraged artists to dip into their archive for their most chromatic expressions. Although abstraction prevails, there’s some fine representational work in the mix, including an homage to R.B.G. in RGB.

Susan Luss 

in collaboration with Alexandra Rutsch Brock

Summer in the City, 2020, installation in the Sheep Meadow in Central Park

Karen Freedman

Ruche-0352.127A, archival pigment print on aluminum, 16 x 16 inches

Deanna Sirlin

Strata V, 2020, translucency on glass, installed at Centro de Arte e Cultura,  Fundação Eugénio de Almeida, Évora, Portugal; one of 20 windows, each 94 x 45 inches

Mark Wethli

Turnstile, 2015, flashe on canvas, 24 x 18 inches

Lloyd Martin

Verve, 2018, oil on canvas, 66 x 84 inches

Steven Baris

Drift
D2, 2013, oil on Mylar, 24 x 24 inches

Don Voisine

Lipstick Traces, 2020, oil on panel, 10 x 10 inches

Gabriele Evertz

Karen Hubacher

Local Color.01, 2012; paper, canvas, cane, acrylic, oil on panel, 8 x 6 inches

Ian MacLeod

Sudoku #111, 2011, digital image, 18 x 18 inches

Carolanna Parlato

Hopscotch, 2020, acrylic on canvas, 24 x 30 inches

Altoon Sultan

Two Handles, 2020, egg tempera on calfskin parchment, 12 x 9.5 inches

Laurie Goddard

Words, 20189, acrylic on panel, 14 x 10 inches

Beverly Rautenberg

[My] Favorites, 2018, enamel on wood, 2 x 10 x 2 inches

Jeanne Williamson Ostroff

Resilient Fences #1, 2019, mixed media on stiffened fabric, 24 x 57 inches

Mamie Holst
A Town Called Mindington #14, 2010, acrylic and colored pencil on paper, 13 x 22 inches

Nancy Natale

Climbing, 2020, monoprint collage, 27 x 21 inches

Jerome Hershey

Fields #11 (Despite the Pandemic), 2020, acrylic on panels, 71 x 71 inches

4.19. 2019, acrylic on fabric, 10.75 x 10.25 inches

Cyndy Goldman

In the Pocket #10, 2017, wax and oil on panel, 12 x 9 inches 

Assunta Sera 

Fragment 2, 2018, oil on shaped panel, 25 x 22 inches

Cora Jane Glasser 

Query (Red), 2009, encaustic on 400-lb. paper, 15 x 12 inched, two parts

Darla Bjork

Windows. With a Nod to Philip Guston, 2020, oil pastel on panel, 24 x 24 inches

Anne Russinof
Through the Roof, 2016, oil on canvas, 40 x 46 inches

Ken Johnson

Lynda Ray  

Red Eclipse, 2014, encaustic on panel, 20 x 24 inches

Jane Sangerman

Kelvin D105, 2020, mixed media on Shizen paper, 18 x 12 inches

Karen Schifano

Wide Open, 2014, acrylic on canvas, 32 x 38 inches

Laura Gurton

Body of Light, 2020, archival digital print on paper, 24 x 24 inches

Jo Yarrington

After Rotary Demosphere, 2018, cyanotype, 15 x 15 inches

Lisa Barthelson

Mandala All Consuming, Family Debris, 2016, mixed media on raised panel, 46 x 46 x 7 inches

Susan Lasch Krevitt

Squared Peg, 2020, mixed media with encaustic and cardboard, 16 x 9 x 5 inches

Winston Lee Mascarenhas

Black Lake, 2015, encaustic on panel, 48 x 48 x 5 inches, shown against detail

Barbara Laube

After Giotto, 2020, oil on panel, 11 x 9 inches

Robin Feld

Blossom Crush, 2020, oil on canvas, 40 x 30 inches

Kylie Heidenheimer

Hedge, 2019, oil on canvas, 52 x 43 inches

Alyce Gottesman

Rangadravya, 2018; acrylic, ink, graphite on canvas, 66 x 50 inches

Deborah Peeples

Through the Quagmire, 2020, encaustic on panel, 16 x 16 inches

Pat Spainhour

Sashay, 2019, encaustic on paper, 26 x 26 inches

Jodie Manasevet

Greenorangespace, 2005, oil on canvas, 54 x 54 inches

Claire Seidl

It Goes Without Saying, 2015, oil on linen, 51 x 45 inches

Bernd Haussmann

Red, Green, Yellow, and Blue (#2485), 2015, mixed media on Dibond, 56 x 48 inches

Vivian Wolovitz

Artifact VIII, 2020, oil on canvas, 12 x 12 inches

Lynda Fay Braun

New England Summer, 2017, image transfer and acrylic on panel

Dona Mara

Verdant Field, 2019, oil and cold  wax, 24 x 18 inches

Dora Ficher

Water Blue, 2017; encaustic, collage, and oil pigments, 8 x 8 inches

Michael Palladino
Ether I, 2009, photograph with encaustic, 16 x 16 inches

Carol Pelletier

West
Beach, 2019, oil and cold wax on panel, 10 x 10 inches

Terri Dilling

Eventide, 2020, acrylic on canvas, 41 x 54 inches

Josette Urso

Slippery Stone 2, 2017, watercolor on paper, 12 x 16 inches

Serena Bocchino

Surfboard, 2016, enamel and mirrors on canvas, 42 x 36 inches

Lia Rothstein

Untitled, 2018; joomchi with encaustic, handmade papers, paper yarn; 12 x 8 x 1.5 inches

Alicia Forestahl-Boehm
Living Together-but-Separate Lives, 2012; encaustic, cheesecloth, wire, twine; 5 x 8 x 9 inches

Ravenna Taylor

Many Rivers, oil, 24 x 22.5 inches

Oriane Stender
Untitled Woven Painting, 2020, handwoven silk and cotton, painted with screenprinting ink and pigment dispersion, 38 x 27 inches, with detail in foreground

Stephanie Sachs

Wide Open Dreams 12, 2017, oil on panel, 10 x 8 inches

Joanne Mattera
Silk Road 425, 2108, encaustic on panel, 18 x 18 inches

Louise Blyton
The Sky Wanders By, 2019, acrylic on linen, 10 x 12 x 12 inches

Maddy Rosenberg
Yellow, Red, Blue, 200-2001, oil on panel, each 22 x 20 inches
Above: Blue

Below: the three together

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Lucy Meskill

A Well-Deserved Rest, 2016,12 x 12 x 12 inches

Petey Brown

Olive Oyl, 2020, oil on linen, 16 x 16 inches

Caroline Golden

Bluebird of Happiness, 2015, paper collage, 20 x 25 x 2 inches

Dan Addington

Blood Ties, 2018; oil, pencil, plaster on found book; 9 x 6 inches, with side view right

Helen Dannelly

Two Cottages with Pasture, 2020, acrylic on canvas, 18 x 14

Andrea Goldsmith

Delray Canal, 2020, acrylic on canvas, 16 x 12 inches

Lily Prince
American Beauty, 17, 2020, acrylic on canvas, 60 x 60 inches

Debra Claffey

Blue
Monk, 2019; encaustic, oil, paper; 44 x 90 inches 

Jeri Eisenberg
Lily Pads, No. 7, 2019, pigment ink on Kozo with encaustic medium, 36 x 22.5 inches

Sas Colby

Summer Garden, 2014, acrylic on canvas, 40 x 35 inches

Frank Hyder

Sequestered
Dream, oil on carved wood, 42 x 48 inches

Bascha Mon

POW! For R.B.G.–Power and Love–Intermezzi #13, 2018; carbon pencil, gouache, charcoal pencil on paper; 5.5 x 8 inches

What’s a post on RGB without R.B.G.? Yes, that’s the Justice, painted by the artist with her left hand, due to a right-shoulder injury that prevented her from using her dominant hand. Says Mon: “There was no attempt at a likeness, but I gave her the white
ruff for her black gown. I was more interested in the color contrast–the red/green duality–to help show her power. I was not conscious of this at
the time, but made her head larger than the sun, perhaps to show her importance
to our world.”

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