A Brilliant Spectrum: Recent Gifts of Color Photography @ Santa Barbara Museum of Art

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A Brilliant Spectrum: Recent Gifts of Color Photography @ Santa Barbara Museum of Art

January 30th, 2019 by fstop

Evelyn Hofer, Girl with Bicycle, Dublin, 1966. Dye transfer print. SBMA, Museum purchase with funds provided by PhotoFutures. ©Evelyn Hofer, Courtesy ROSEGALLERY

A Brilliant Spectrum: Recent Gifts of Color Photography
January 27 – May 5, 2019

“Embracing a broad range of artists, years, techniques, and themes, this exhibition offers viewers a rich and exciting experience of color photographs by emerging and established artists alike that have come into the Santa Barbara Museum of Art’s (SBMA) collection within the past two years by gifts of art and acquisition funds and that are on view at the Museum for the very first time. A Brilliant Spectrum presents with its 30 works a select and concise survey of the course of color photography, from its emergence as an accepted artistic tool in the 1960s and 70s, with vivid color photographs by the established artists Evelyn Hofer, Kwame Brathwaite, and William Eggleston, up to today’s most conceptually-driven practices as seen in the seemingly-abstract work of Hannah Karsen and Olaf Breuning. Thanks to the generosity of patrons who have given works of art and acquisition funds, the Museum has been able to significantly deepen and expand its holdings in the field of color photography, a groundbreaking and enduringly relevant mode of expression in the art of the past 50 years.”

Santa Barbara Museum of Art, 1130 State Street, Santa Barbara, CA.

Location: California, Santa Barbara, United States Type: Exhibition

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