New York-based artist Audrey Stone has a fascination with light. Her paintings are in-depth studies of how color shifts into one another and the tensions created by juxtaposing one color against another. On the one hand, they are glowing, retinal delights, but I wouldn’t be writing about one of them if that’s all there was.
Consider “Red Cloud.” When I first saw it, I resonated with a kind of primal pleasure. Seeing the golden yellow at the bottom move upwards through the spectrum to intense reds, passing through dark purples that deepen into indigo at the top, is akin to beholding a spectacular sunset, as the evening light intensifies before giving way to darkness. The sky reminding everything below of its encompassing glory. It’s a moment of awe and of being humbled.
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