Be it politics, finances or changes in the weather – colors are used to depict psychological landscapes. Current in today’s society as it has been throughout painting’s history; colors create contrast and evoke emotions.

In PALETTE POLES, warm and cool colors generate notions of tension, distance and moods.

The Emotion of Color paintings by Cristobal Dam

Realizing nature (in its uninhibited splendor) is organized is not an abstract idea. Such thought is the fodder for Cris Dam’s work. Patterns composing Dam’s paintings are organic, repetitive and disciplined.

Color schemes of night vs day, green/ blue/ red/ white cellular structures and bursts of plant or animal lifeforms inhabit Dam’s canvases. The artist’s unique visual language develops from what viewers are already universally familiar with. Without being tied to a specific art history movement, moment, place or culture- Dam’s paintings rediscover the structural components at the heart of communication. Dam speaks through colors and shapes understood and identified on an emotional level.

Gallery 2: The Psychology of Color paintings by Jeff Schneider Cowboys in saddles, smoking models, posed fruit and drapery are given room and strength to claim their own identity within a single canvas. In Schneider’s paintings, independent fields of unlikely imagery pulsate. Foreground and background vibrate off each other, switching roles.

Sophisticatedly staged, the artist utilizes color to create frictional, fictional, interchangeable relationships among the paintings’ components. Schneider’s colors separate and engage elements of his paintings in active play for presence, dominance and the favor of the crowd’s eye.