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• "Color": a documentary by contemporary artist Alteronce Gumby (USA)

  • When
    13 Apr 2025
  •  
    10:00 AM - 11:30 AM
  • Location
    Zoom
  • Spaces left
    21

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  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".
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  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.

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  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

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• CSA National Conference - Colour Matrix Sydney 2025

  • Start
    31 Oct 2025
  •  
    9:00 AM
  • End
    2 Nov 2025
  •  
    5:00 PM
  • Location
    RAHS History House, 133 Macquarie Street, Sydney + online

  
  

  The New South Wales Division of the Colour Society of Australia is pleased to announce that it will be hosting the 2025 CSA national conference in Sydney on October 31 to November 2. 

  We invite you to apply to give a presentation at our conference by submitting an Abstract according to the instructions set out below, and to pass on our open Call for Abstracts to your colleagues and postgraduate students.

  Our conference venue is the Royal Australian History Society's History House at 133 Macquarie Street, Sydney, directly across the road from The Royal Botanic Garden Sydney. The conference will be hybrid with provision for both in-person and online presentations and attendance.

  We ask our members and friends to please spread word of our conference by sharing this link or our Facebook, Instagram and LinkedIn posts. A pdf poster can be downloaded here.

  Important dates

                           

  First Call for Abstracts	13 December 2024
  Second Call for Abstracts	31 January 2025
  Submission deadline for abstracts	25 April 2025
  Notification of acceptance for full-length/ short presentation	06 June 2025
  Registration opens	13 June 2025
  Early bird registration deadline	29 August 2025
  General registration deadline	26 October 2025

  
  

  About the conference theme

  The theme Colour Matrix acknowledges the importance of cross disciplinary approaches to colour in this era of ever-narrowing specialization. Participants are invited to consider how their own work involving colour may be of interest and of importance in other disciplines, or to critically contrast and perhaps reconcile different specialized approaches to colour within their own discipline. We encourage participation from designers, artists and other colour practitioners whose work references scientific or philosophical understanding of colour, from colour educators whose teaching programs span the art-science divide, and from scientific, historical and other researchers who believe that their insights about colour have relevance beyond their specialized areas of interest. 

  Enquiries: csa.nsw.chair@gmail.com

  
  

  Call for Abstracts

  Submissions on a broad range of colour-related topics are sought, including but not limited to:

  • Artificial Intelligence and colour | Impact of AI on colour research, colour technology, applied colour in art and design, and colour education | Limitations of language-based models given the perceptual nature of colour
  • Colour Vision I Neuroscience I Phenomenology of Colour I Colour Perception and Illusions I Colorimetry | Colour Appearance Models 
  • Colour and Language | Psychology of Colour I Colour Aesthetics I Colour Symbolism I Philosophy of Colour
  • Colour in Graphic Design, Fashion Design, Communication Design, Product Design, Packaging Design and Marketing I Colour in Photography, Image Processing, Television and Cinema
  • Colour in Architecture, Urban Environments, Landscape Design, Interior Design, Stage Design or Lighting Design and Technologies I Colour in Virtual Reality (VR) and Augmented Reality (AR) Environments
  • Colour in Painting, Sculpture, Drawing, Theatre, Dance, and Music I History of Colour Theory and Practice in the Fine and Applied Arts
  • Colour Education in the Arts, Design, Science, Engineering and in Schools I History of Colour Education

  To submit your abstract for consideration for a full-length/short presentation at Colour Matrix Sydney 2025, please download and fill in the Colour Matrix Abstract Template and return it to csa.nsw.chair@gmail.com by 25 April 2025.

  Please indicate your preference for either full-length oral presentation (30 minutes including introduction and some questions) or a short presentation of up to 5 slides accompanied by an up to 10-minute oral summary, and also indicating if you intend to give your presentation in person or via Zoom. All abstracts will be reviewed by the Program Committee and scientific submissions will be anonymously peer-reviewed. In general, outreach-style papers of broad interest would be best suited to full oral presentation, while specialized original research might be better suited to our short presentation format. All presenters may be invited to take part in panel discussions at intervals throughout the conference program.

  Authors will be notified if their abstract has been accepted for full/short presentation by 06 June 2025. A pdf volume of all the accepted abstracts will be posted on the CSA website shortly before the conference.

  
  

  Copyright & Legal Obligations

  All information in the abstract submission, including author’s names, affiliations, authors order of listing, and the content of abstract, will be used in the conference publications. The contributor carries legal obligations of the abstract; any violation to a third party’s right will be the responsibility of the contributor themselves.

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• Add your name to the Colour Society of Australia Contact list!

  • When
    31 Dec 2025
  •  
    12:00 PM
  • Location
    Online

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