‘Chromophilia’, guest-curated by Dr. Royce Smith, is an homonym exhibition on display at Fisch Haus Studios in Whichita, Kansas.
Based on a seminal contemporary text by English artist, David Batchelor, entitled Chromophobia (2000), this exhibition brings together some artist from Whichita local artists –such as Ted Adler, Christopher Crabtree, Cory Medina, Linda Robinson, Annie Strader, Sarah Turner, and Aaron Vague–and explores how color is a crucial, if not often-sidelined, component of contemporary expression. Through a showcasing of photographic, ceramic, and installation-based media, this exhibition will interrogate the various roles that color plays for different artists and their unique practices. While color, as Batchelor asserts, is a universal phenomenon “in” everything, does it also maintain an independence that transcends materiality? Is color what Jacqueline Lichtenstein calls “a pleasure that exceeds discursiveness,” or is it an excess and an indulgence that distracts from the conceptual? This exhibition will also be accompanied by a catalogue and essay available to viewers for free on the evening of the opening.
Dr. Royce Smith is an assistant professor of Modern and Contemporary Art at Wichita State University and a regular contributor to Review Magazine, published in Kansas City.
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