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Upcoming Events

    • 13 Apr 2025
    • 10:00 AM - 11:30 AM
    • Zoom
    • 21
    Register

    We invite you to attend our first-ever online film screening, presenting a 40-minute trailer of highlights of the documentary Color in the company of its maker, exploratory abstract artist Alteronce Gumby. For our event Alteronce will give a live introduction before the screening and will also participate in a Q&A with attendees at the conclusion. Please join Alteronce on his personal exploration of the world of colour, to discover what it means to him and how it has influenced his creative expression. 


    "Color takes viewers around the world starting with captivating discussions and demonstrations with pigment expert Michael Ambron and celebrity stylist Jerome Lamaar in the Bronx, NY and then to Mardi Gras in New Orleans, Louisiana, to celebrate the vibrancy of French Creole, Caribbean, African, African American, and global cultures. The documentary then travels internationally, experiencing the vibrant colors of the Holi Festival in India, the red sands of the Sahara Desert, the crimson-hued city of Marrakech, Morocco, and to the Great Barrier Reef featuring conversations with marine ecologist Dr. Catherine Kim. The adventure concludes in Alaska with the Northern Lights in Fairbanks, featuring conversations with documentarian Shondiin Mayo".
    @alteroncegumby


    Alteronce Gumby. Photo courtesy of  Alteronce Gumby Studio

    Alteronce Gumby is a New York artist whose practice includes painting, ceramics, installation, performance, and film. He is represented by Nicola Vassell in New York and parrasch heijnen in Los Angeles, and he has exhibited widely in the USA and internationally, including solo shows in Tokyo, Mexico City, Berlin and Paris. Gumby graduated from Yale University’s MFA program in 2016, where he was awarded the Robert Reed Memorial Scholarship and the Austrian American Foundation/ Seebacher Prize for Fine Arts. He has also participated in numerous international artist residencies such as the Rauschenberg Residency (2019), London Summer Intensive (2016), Summer Academy in Salzburg, Austria (2015), 6Base (2016), and as the 2016 recipient of the Harriet Hale Woolley Scholarship at the Fondation des Étas-Unis in Paris.  

    "Alteronce Gumby's paintings subvert traditional understandings of light and color through the nuanced application of glass and oil paint on panel. This unique crafting technique stems from the artist‘s concern of constantly redefining color and materialities’ meaning and connotations. Challenging the reception of the viewer, Gumby’s work pushes the boundaries of color and form through their intricate web of layers of darkness and light, reflection and interference, spatiality and its »auratic« experience, such as art theorist Walter Benjamin would define in »The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction«. Through Alteronce Gumby’s fluorescent and chromatic spectrum of iridescent color, the artist engages the viewer and expands the notions through which we perceive form and color, the subjectivity on identity, the materiality on earth and in cosmic space.

    The apparent and striking materiality of the works gives reference to their process of creation and allows the viewer to see and re-feel the literal crafting behind each work. Referring to Stanley Whitney, Jack Whitten, Mark Rothko and Robert Rauschenberg as the painters’ influences, Alteronce Gumby’s artistic technique constitutes a jigsaw pattern of precise and hidden references, inserting raw materials such as fragments and pigments, glass, rocks and gem stones, while abandoning traditional forms and painting techniques". 
     Bode Gallery, Berlin


    The Sky is Not the Limit, 2021. Gemstones, painted glass, and acrylic on panel, 47.5”x60"


    In Black and White We See Color, 2023. Glass, gemstones, and acrylic on panel, 24 x 24 in.


    Games That the Light Plays (detail), 2024. Bismuth, citrine, glass, and acrylic on panel, 72x72 in.

    For more of Alteronce's work please see his website and the websites of Nicola Vassell in New York and parrasch heijnen in Los Angeles, We gratefully thank our Canberra Colour Club including Dr Jean Pretorius, Nick Harness and Laura Berman for suggesting and organizing this event with Alteronce.

    Registration

    Successful registrants will be notified by reply email and will be sent the Zoom link and instructions shortly before the event. To receive this email with the Zoom link, you must register by the deadline of midnight AEST on Friday April 11th, but please note that this event may be booked out in advance of that date. If you're unable to attend live, please do not register.

    We ask our members and friends to please pass on news of this event to their contacts by sharing our Facebook/ Instagram/ LinkedIn posts or the following link: https://coloursociety.org.au/event-6120186

    • 31 Dec 2025
    • 12:00 PM
    • Online
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Past Events

21 Mar 2025 International Colour Day Forum: The XRF Revolution in Painting Analysis and Painting Conservation
9 Mar 2025 "Pursuit of Happiness" exhibition, Ngununggula Gallery, Bowral
10 Dec 2024 CSA national Annual General Meeting 2024
10 Dec 2024 CSA NSW Division Annual General Meeting 2024
26 Nov 2024 Fifteen years of spinning colour wheels and analysing dragons: Alexandra Loske's work on colour
10 Oct 2024 "The Book of Colours (Das Farbenbuch)" with Dr Juraj Lipscher
21 Sep 2024 "The Art and Science of Crafting Successful Hair Colour" with Julie Kleine
11 Aug 2024 "Every Colour" (Articulate project space exhibition & events) and upcoming NSW Division webinars
8 Jun 2024 From Screen to Print: Mastering Colour Fidelity in Digital Media by Dr Les Walkling
13 Apr 2024 "Conversations on Colour and Place" with Dr Natalie O'Connor and Jo Mellor
22 Mar 2024 International Colour Day 2024 event: Phyllis Shillito and her Colour Curriculum 1945-79 (ONLINE ATTENDANCE)
20 Mar 2024 International Colour Day 2024 event: Phyllis Shillito and her Colour Curriculum 1945-79
17 Feb 2024 "Dynamic Colour in Digital Art" with Steve Forster (Long Island Academy of Fine Art, USA)
18 Dec 2023 CSA national Annual General Meeting 2023
18 Dec 2023 CSA NSW Division Annual General Meeting 2023
3 Dec 2023 Jocelyn Maughan on Colour
12 Oct 2023 CSA National Conference 2023 Colour Sense and Sensibility
17 Sep 2023 "Dyes Ancient and Modern" with Dr Mark Liu
27 Aug 2023 "The Colour Circle at the Bauhaus and Beyond" with Michael Mentler
30 Jul 2023 Creating Colour 2: A Practical Guide for Beginner and Intermediate Painters with Dr Jean Pretorius
1 Jul 2023 CSA NSW gallery visit: Francis Giacco (Australian Galleries) and Kerry McInnis (Wagner Contemporary)
25 Jun 2023 "Objectivity in colour experience and the elusiveness of aesthetic description" with Dr Joaquim Marcelino Santos
25 Apr 2023 "Creating Colour 1: Paint Making" with Ulysses Jackson (Golden Artist Colors Inc., USA)
26 Mar 2023 International Colour Day 2023 event: "Controlled Palettes in Painting" with Tristan Elwell (USA)
5 Feb 2023 "Colour in Scientific Imaging and Space” with Dr Balthasar Indermühle
17 Dec 2022 CSA national Annual General Meeting 2022
17 Dec 2022 CSA NSW Division Annual General Meeting 2022
20 Nov 2022 "Making Sense of Ancient Greek Colour Names" with Dr Peter Gainsford (NZ)
2 Oct 2022 CSA NSW webinar: "A Colourful Life" with Linda Jackson AO
24 Jul 2022 CSA July Webinar: "Teaching (and Learning) Color Theory on Tiktok" with Peter Donahue (USA)
18 Jun 2022 CSA NSW June event: Darlinghurst Gallery Walk
29 May 2022 "Painting Light and Form" with Todd Casey (USA)
20 Mar 2022 CSA International Colour Day 2022 event: Progress in Colour Education
5 Dec 2021 CSA December webinar: "Colours of Light: An Emotive Exploration" with designer Ilan El (Melbourne)
29 Nov 2021 CSA national Annual General Meeting 2021
29 Nov 2021 CSA NSW Division Annual General Meeting 2021
31 Oct 2021 CSA NSW October webinar: "A Conversation about Colour" with sculptor and painter Ron Robertson-Swann, hosted by artist Aly Indermühle
25 Sep 2021 CSA NSW September webinar "Concerning the Shape of Color" with Marcia R. Cohen, Professor Emerita SCAD Atlanta (USA)
15 Aug 2021 CSA NSW August webinar: "Light on Painting" with Adrien Lucca (Belgium)
3 Jul 2021 CSA NSW July webinar: "Colour and Composition in Hilma af Klint's Swan Series" with Kristen Tivey
22 Apr 2021 CSA NSW April webinar: "Scandinavian Colour Design of Today" with Berit Bergstrom (Berit Colour Talks, Sweden)
21 Mar 2021 CSA National Conference "Colour Connections" SUNDAY ONLY
20 Mar 2021 CSA National Conference "Colour Connections" SATURDAY ONLY
19 Mar 2021 CSA National Conference "Colour Connections" (OVERVIEW PAGE)
19 Mar 2021 CSA National Conference "Colour Connections" FRIDAY ONLY
19 Mar 2021 CSA National Conference "Colour Connections" (video registration)
20 Dec 2020 CSA National AGM 2020
6 Dec 2020 CSA NSW December webinar: "The Paint Detective" with architectural paint researcher and consultant Patrick Baty (UK)
29 Nov 2020 CSA NSW Division 2020 AGM
27 Sep 2020 CSA NSW September Webinar: "Colour Notes" with abstract painter Dr Liz Coats
22 Jul 2020 CSA NSW July Webinar: A Colour Journey Through the Loire Valley with Virginia Handel
14 Jun 2020 CSA NSW June webinar: Paints and Paint Making with Michael Harding
22 Mar 2020 ICD 2020 event: The Routledge Philosophy of Colour Project
19 Feb 2020 Peter Tasker on "Heritage to Contemporary Projects with Murobond Paints"
4 Dec 2019 CSA NSW End-of-Year Event with Karen Haller on The Little Book of Colour.
28 Nov 2019 CSA National and NSW Division 2019 AGMS
3 Nov 2019 CSA NSW event: Encaustic Painting: History and Contemporary Perspectives with Randal Arvilla
11 Aug 2019 CSA NSW event: Aristotle and the Philosophy of Colour Perception with Professor Mohan Matthen
4 Jul 2019 CSA NSW event: Affect, Motion and Light with Christopher Moulder
29 May 2019 CSA NSW event: Leonardo da Vinci on Colour, Light and Vision with Dr David Briggs
23 Mar 2019 CSA NSW event: International Colour Day with Resene Paints
6 Mar 2019 CSA NSW Sydney Design Festival event, Unlocking the Structure of Colour with David Briggs & Annamaria di Cara
12 Feb 2019 CSA NSW event: Newton's red Hering? with Professor Paul Martin

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