International Colour Day | DFZ Colour Connections
Honored and excited to join Dr. Alexandra Loske on International Colour Day 21 March 2024.
Thanks to the German Colour Association for the invitation.
DFZ COLOUR CONNECTIONS
Shades of HERstory: Exploring Women’s Influence on Colour Through History
You are warmly invited to join the German Colour Association, Deutsches Farbenzentrum e.V. (DFZ), for an online talk on International Colour Day, Thursday, 21 March 2024. Save the date!
The DFZ is delighted to offer a new format for this colour conversation: a joint presentation by German-British museum curator and author Dr. Alexandra Loske (who is also a new DFZ board member for Colour Theory and Colour Literature) and US-American artist Brece Honeycutt. The theme will be “Women and Colour”. Dr. Alexandra Loske is Curator of the Royal Pavilion in Brighton, England, and has recently published a monograph on the English artist Mary Gartside, who was the first woman who published a colour theory, five years before Goethe’s Doctrine of Colours. Her hand-painted illustrations for her book show a high degree of abstraction, making her a pioneer in the field. Artist Brece Honeycutt frequently references historical sources and has made colour and materiality a focus of her work, with Gartside being one of her inspirations. The presentation will begin at 8pm CET and will be in English. Each speaker will talk for around 30 to 40 minutes, followed by a Q&A session. Questions can be asked in English or German.
Registration link: https://lnkd.in/eM7ZpaXP
> Dr Alexandra Loske is a German-British art historian, writer and curator with a particular interest the history of colour in Western art, print culture, and architecture. Her main research project is the lives and work of women in colour history. She has published and lectured widely on one of the earliest female colour theorist, the English artist Mary Gartside (c.1755-1819), and has just published a monograph on her (Thomas Heneage Art Books, 2024) and a large double volume on Colour Concepts (TASCHEN, 2024).
> Brece Honeycutt, a multi-media artist, uses research as a material for her history and nature based works. She holds a B.A. in Art History from Skidmore College (Saratoga Springs, NY) and an M.F.A. in sculpture from Columbia University (New York, NY).
Her current projects include: Prismatic Utopia, researching the Shaker communal society and their temporal and spiritual use of color, for which she received a 2023 Maker-Creator Fellowship at Winterthur Museum, Library and Garden (Wilmington, DE); and makingAWARE, manifesting in walks, archival research, poetry & natural dye work. In 2022, Copy Press UK published her audio-visual essay “A Bird to overhear-“ based on Honeycutt’s nature observations and research conducted during her fellowship at the American Antiquarian Society (Worcester, MA).
> Brece Honeycutt, a multi-media artist, uses research as a material for her history and nature based works. She holds a B.A. in Art History from Skidmore College (Saratoga Springs, NY) and an M.F.A. in sculpture from Columbia University (New York, NY).
Her current projects include: Prismatic Utopia, researching the Shaker communal society and their temporal and spiritual use of color, for which she received a 2023 Maker-Creator Fellowship at Winterthur Museum, Library and Garden (Wilmington, DE); and makingAWARE, manifesting in walks, archival research, poetry & natural dye work. In 2022, Copy Press UK published her audio-visual essay “A Bird to overhear-“ based on Honeycutt’s nature observations and research conducted during her fellowship at the American Antiquarian Society (Worcester, MA).