AIPAD Exposure highlighted five exhibitions on view this month at AIPAD member galleries, from gestural color work and unconventional portraiture to activist images.
COLOR TAKES CENTER STAGE
Vivid color - pink, green, red, and yellow hues - are common elements in the work of Blandine Soulage and Laura Bonnefous, whose work is on view through August 23 in the exhibition Concentrique at Koslov Larsen Gallery (Houston). Both photographers focus on bodies in space. In Soulage's series Déviation, bodies interact in unexpected ways with architectural elements: people cling to columns; drape over walls; or form sculptural elements within architectural shapes. Soulage worked with dancers for this series, photographing them without showing their faces, allowing for open-ended narratives. Bonnefous was drawn to the city of Kilamba, in Angola, for the distinctive color schemes of its neighborhoods, for the pastel-hued architecture and the quality of light, and out of a desire to explore the lives of the few occupants of this ghost town. She photographed people embracing, the gestures graceful and affectionate, and girls with beads and ornaments in their hair, images that capture a sense of beauty and tenderness, imbued with color.
