"Welcome to White & Texture [Monochrome Unity], perhaps our most challenging calls for art to date.

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Subtitled Monochrome Unity, we invited artists to explore the profound subtleties and striking complexities of using white as the driving color and how texture within the white and informs the execution and the narrative of an artwork. We wanted them to explore the effect of this limitation – without a “conventional” color palette.

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When artists are freed from tradition, from expectation, and from the weight of history, there is an opportunity for release, exploration, and the unexpected and we looked for artworks that found emotion without using color. Uniformity, tranquility universality, simplicity, purity, or abstraction may all come to the surface and create a beautiful tension between what is missing – color, tradition, and form – and what is gained – innovation and the unexpected.

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Our desire from this exhibition is not the search for simplicity but the discovery of a new way of creating and a different way of expression. We hope Monochrome Unity achieves this and finds new solutions to an artistic challenge.

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Using the work of such artists as Michael Buthe, Piero Manzoni, Joan Nixon, and ceramic sculptor Maria Barttuszova provide us with a broad template of the experience we aim to create in the Cultural Center.

White & Texture [Monochrome Unity] will fill our galleries, creating a visual harmony and coherence and like never before, give a visitor experience like no other."

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Molly Demeulenaere, Executive Director.