Polychromatic Worlds opens Saturday, March 9 at 4 pm in the Coleman Hall featuring the work of Karin Denson, Chris Hagie and Gurdon Miller. 

“Our work questions the purity of the concept of abstraction.  Specifically, we ask: how do the elements of color, from, shape, line, texture, space and value interact reciprocally irrespective of the presence or absence of pictoral content”

The artists present three different perspectives on abstraction.

While one artist initially identifies an object (typically wildlife), and keeps some of its recognizable features, another one is also inspired by observable natural settings, like landscapes, but the increasingly abstract forms diverge from the original landscapes. The third artist starts painting with an absence of any concrete image but with a general feeling for shape, color and composition, and from there layers are applied that change the image until completion.  With this range of abstract expressions, we invite the viewer to experience these possibilities and examine their own viewpoint on this wide area of abstract art.

Karin Denson, Chris Hagie and Gurdon “Murph” Miller are part of Edgewater Gallery, an artist collective founded in Fort Bragg, CA in 2003.