Of Color

Contemporary Art Museum Saint Louis, May 6-August 21, 2016

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> Interview with Seth Lewis

Of Color situates eight life-size assemblages onto an asphalt basketball court, re-creating an outdoor setting within the gallery space. Both abstract and anthropomorphic, each mixed-media sculpture combines cropped images of athletes and fashion models with pictures of domestic objects culled from lifestyle and sports magazines. The images are transformed into rigid free-standing props and positioned onto boxes of printer toner. Visually recalling players in the midst of a scrimmage game, the sculptures are separated into two teams, one printed in color, the other in grayscale. While seemingly divided into opposing chromatic groups, all of the players are unified by the halftone dots that make up their original source material.