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Opening Reception: Friday, July 14, 6:00 – 8:00 PM
blue (formerly 365) is an annual member-run exhibition presenting a non-juried survey of artwork created by Gallery 44 members in the past year.
Curator's Statement
The theme of this year’s member show came to me out of the… you guessed it. And felt right immediately. In looking through the 400+ submissions and whittling them down to 119, the breadth of the work presented in the show reflects the diversity of perspectives of a vibrant artist community, brimming with possibilities.
Blue as a color is omnipresent, something I took for granted in its bounty. The blues, however, is something that I'm intimately familiar with.
As the first member show in the aftermath of the pandemic, it seemed fitting to have the ubiquitous and chameleonic word "blue" to serve as its guiding light — the blues tied us together, in one way or another, over the past few years.
Here, blue is captured and interpreted in countless ways by the 110 artists in the show. Blue is in the city, on the road, in the wild expanses and gentle corners, in tenderness and starkness, softly and solemnly, in swaths and smudges, light and shadows, reflections and multiples, morning lights and evening fog, magic hours and blue hours, caught between windows, doorways and gazes.
This year we asked that all submissions be shot after Jan 1, 2022, so these images are a visual time capsule of what photographers in the city have been thinking about over the last 18 months. We also opened the call earlier, giving artists a few months to make work in response to the theme.
I hope something in them moves you, as it did me.
- Grace Wang, curator
About the Theme
blue
a ubiquitous color
from the faintest wisp that pulses in your veins, the creamy cobalt of Chinese porcelain, the deep richness of lapis lazuli, to the indigo of a pair of jeans
blue is a feeling, music, the heart of a flame. More than anything blue is a chameleon — transforming and transmuting our emotions and lives.
What does blue mean to you?
- Grace Wang, curator
Participating artists include:
Richard Ashman, Tobi Asmoucha, chenxi bao, Ellsworth Bell, Andrea Bellemare, Cat Belshaw, Sarala Bhukal, Daphne Boxill, Mike Callaghan, Daura Campos, Brittany Carmichael, Katherine Cheng, Jeyolyn Christi, Giulia Ciampini, Maria Ciampini, Lorenzo Cinco, Celeste Cole, Alex Coley, Antony Creary, Anna Currier, James Dallo, Spencer Davis, Zoi de la Peña, Skip Dean, Ben Dickey, Malik Dieleman, Ulla Djelweh, Ken Doody, L!N Duperron, Courtney Fairweather, John Faragher, Erin Fitzgibbon, Richelle Forsey, Susan Fothergill, Sylvia Galbraith, Danielle Goshay, Noam Hacker, Samantha Hansel, Brian Hart, Felicity Hauwert, Shafina Hayat, Xin He, Laura Honsberger, Gustavo Jabbaz, Ryan Jakubek, Ali Kamali, Ruth Kaplan, Susan Kerr, Margit Koivisto, Rasha Kubba, Caitlin Kuly, Chris Lashbrook, Mike Lau, Soka Lazara, Frank Lepre, Angela Lewis, Changhao Li, Jeffrey (Jingyuan) Li, Max Lorenz, Lucy Lu, Elena Lu Wen, Samuel Lui, Fred Lum, Loraine Luong, Theresa Ma, Andrew Macrae, Kadee McFarlane, Cass Meinwen, Sandy Middleton, Anne Milne, Marzieh Miri, Eliza Moore, Andrew Moreno, Huw Morgan, Lisa Murzin, Matthias Musch, Muna Muse, Michael Neal, Alex Neumann, Ademola Oladipo, Liban Osman, Selena Phillips-Boyle, Gerald Pisarzowski, Atia Pokorny, Negar Pooya, Zack Pospieszynski, Glenn Pritchard, Parvaneh Radmard, Sandi Ralph, Ramo, Terence Reeves, Janne Reuss, masoud riyazati, Joel Rodriguez, Michelle Rosenblat, Nadine Ryan, Lilianne Schneider, David Scriven, Woo See-Ming, Dave Shuken, Kristofer Sonderskov-Lamb, Salima Sora Kouaci, Jeff Stephenson, Bryan Stewart, James Sutherland, Fernando Terrazzino, Robert Thomas, Jamie Thomson, Annie Tong, Helen Tran, Gabrielle Tyrie, Celina Virani, Yuwen Wang, Mark Watson, Shelley Wildeman, Meagan Williams, Charline Xia
