“Color Me” Exhibition Fellowship
Case Study
Participating in the gallery fellowship through Artworks in Cincinnati allowed me to learn and collaborate with the artists-in-residence, Andrew Neyer and Andy J. Pizza, and nine other fellows selected. Andrew and Andy’s exhibition “Color Me” is a collaborative project where they create monoline black and white doodles, intended to be a larger-than-life coloring book. They manufacture huge markers for the gallery goers to color on the walls to bring their doodles to life.
We, the gallery fellows, were appointed to create a poster design for display and sale at their exhibition. The prompt for our posters was to design a coloring book page but was very open concept. When given direction, however, my attention was to promote and give understanding to the exhibition.
Inspired by the abstract, surreal, and expressionist outcomes that can be colored in. I liked the idea that the poster can change tone or narrative by the color theme of choice. Taking that note, I pushed my concept of implying human participation, personification, and the motion of coloring.
Narrowing my options and after multiple ideas, renditions, and decision making I chose the design that felt most in tune with what I wanted to transpire and contribute to the exhibition. I went in the direction of displaying the act of how it feels to color, create, and mark make. Representing the human figure in an abstract form where it expands from itself and its outer influence. Titled “Collective Coincidence.”
Reflecting on my formal decisions and the concept of the exhibition; I drew inspiration from the coloring book aspect and open-ended possibilities when coming into the gallery space…
