ArtSeen
Speculative Color: 100 lines for Stephen Mueller
On View
Hunter College Art GalleriesSeptember 13 – October 28
New York, NY
- Color to haunt our homes’ discouragingly safe palate
- Color to disrupt American modesty and Puritan codes
- Color hovering between data & tantric color
- Color to help us inhabit other bodies
- Color to speak unseen alphabets
- Color to tune us into the frequencies of elsewheres
- Vernacular color
- Uncanny color
- Delicious color transgressive color
- “Painting gives us eyes all over.” (Deleuze on painting)
- Color to give us eyes inside and out
- Plaid almost impossible to bear
- Kitschy color
- Christmas color
- Excess color
- What’s color worth and why
- Goosebumps color
- Eat the colors
- A grid of functional objects to adorn our future selves
- Color to queer us
- Color to queen us
- Hot Mess color
- Lunchtimes color
- Screensaver color
- Zoned-out color
- Color without standards
- Extraterrestrial alien brocade color
- Faster future ever-after color
- “Dazzling colorless bodies,” “pathological color,” “epoptical color,” the radiant prismatic worlds in coffee bubbles (Goethe)
- Bejeweled color
- Jack Spicer color
- Deep-listening color
- Forbidden Colors (Mishima)
- Other voices color
- Greenberg would not approve (thankfully) color
- Stain-time shape-time perfume-time cartoon-time
- Color so we can see a little further
- Color for future seers/Future color
- "The sky above the port was the color of television, tuned to a dead channel." (Gibson)
- How many televisions is this color?
- Poetic surplus supplement color
- Speed suspended in color
- Color to care for the health of color
- Color to put holes in things
- Color to create porous borders
- Color to upset all hegemonic orders
- Color to overthrow power
- Radiating halos
- Cast a spell color
- Alchemical conjuring
- Poltergeist color blimpy color
- Intersections of being
- Color to slow
- Color to grow other ecologies
- A gray to spill over all the edges
- A gray to say a painting is not only a surface
- A gray along the outside have you thought about painting as functional object have you thought about how you could wear these around your body color
- Nondenominational vespers color
- Radically hospitable color
- Walking meditation color
- Sitting meditation color
- Empty mind open field color
- Multilingual color
- Mutant American patchwork color
- Potlach color
- Flowers of Evil color
- Bataille color
- “A whole is inside a part, a part does go away, a hole is a red leaf” (Gertrude Stein)
- Speculative this, speculative that, speculative anyplace color
- 24-7 color
- Sleepless color
- Are you afraid of ghosts
- Past lives color
- “Every decided color does a certain violence to the eye, and forces the organ to opposition” (Goethe)
- Maybe we need more color channels
- Hysterical arrangements of color distilled quietly in forms of brooches pins beads bottles Buddhistic eyes
- Laughter to shatter
- Please continue to unnerve us
- Pixelated plaid trophy on the shelf of a house lit by screen light
- Arcade color
- Another sun color
- Eggs ovaries uterus anus
- Virtuosic acrylic skins
- Who gets to author color
- Abundant wonder
- Radio waves from Cocteau’s Hell color
- Ecstatic funerary objects, equipment for another life
- Mantles trims ornaments plugs
- Few canvases contain so much quiet dazed-out playful drift with such attention to minutia
- Interference Color
- A flowering
- Lightness, Quickness, Exactitude, Visibility, Multiplicity (Six Memos for the Next Millennium)
- An ease about the interactions, nothing labored, never heavy-handed
- Painting grammar to upset acceptable abstraction
- A little chiffon goes a long way color
- A confederation of planets color
- Crystal candlelight tricked out rims screen glow color
- “Hypochondriacs frequently see dark objects, such as threads, hairs, spiders, flies, wasps [...] many see semi-transparent small tubes, forms like wings of insects, bubbles of water of various sizes, which fall slowly down, if the eye is raised: sometimes these congregate together so as to resemble the spawn of frogs; sometimes they appear as complete spheres, sometimes in the form of lenses.”(Goethe)
- Synesthesia Hypochondria
- Could we all be these hypochondriacs?
