True Colors: Art Reception

Everyone knows that what you see isn’t always what you get. So, what’s really behind an image? Two Brooklyn artists approach the question from different angles in the exhibition TRUE COLORS.

Natale Adgnot’s series Minerals focuses on the images projected by public personas, comparing the characteristics of rocks to such cultural references as Clint Eastwood (hard), Paris Hilton (dense) and Kim Jung-Il (opaque). In the science of mineralogy, the true color of a specimen is only revealed by subjecting it to a streak test. Sometimes what appears to be a red stone leaves a white streak – the true color of the mineral. In the less exacting science of sociology, a cliché, a stereotype or a façade, whether deliberate or objectionable, always hides something more complex.

The artwork of Edward Granger deals in the more literal sense of the image: color spaces. The glowing “white” of our televisions and digital devices is actually made up of tiny dots of red, blue and green light, or RGB. And those luscious photographs of models in magazines trick us into seeing millions of colors when, for the most part, there’s really only cyan, magenta, yellow and black. Like the human body, made up of much smaller cells, images are made up of pixels that add up to a very different whole. They are invisible but show us everything. Granger’s work untangles these colors from each other and presents them together in a new, prismatic way.

Natale Adgnot was born in California and lived in Paris, France for 10 years before moving to New York in 2009. She comes from a graphic design and fashion background including stints at Chanel, Christie’s and FIT. Her Minerals series will take her to Tokyo this summer to conduct research on Japanese culture. Learn more about the artist at www.nataleadgnot.com.

Originally from Louisiana, Edward Granger has lived in New York since 2012. He earned a BS in Architecture from the University of Louisiana in 2011 and began showing at Sibley Gallery in New Orleans in 2010. His work encompasses collage, mural and three-dimensional creative direction for luxury brands. Notable collectors include Betsey Johnson, Bradford Shellhamer and Arthur Rogers. For more information, visit www.egranger.com.