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Experience an evening of vivid cinema, conversation, and celebration with COLOR, a luminous journey through global festivals, landscapes, and artistic practice. From Holi in India to Mardi Gras in New Orleans, from Morocco’s spice markets to the Northern Lights of Alaska, the film explores how color shapes culture and creativity. With an introduction by artist Alteronce Gumby, a movie-night concession stand, and a short Q&A to follow.
Watch the trailer here!
Alteronce Gumby is a contemporary abstract painter interested in the history of monochromatic painting, color theory, cosmology, astrophysics, and interstellar photography. Gumby’s process is the fulcrum of his work. It begins with the examination of light and its properties, and media including resin, glass and gemstones. This unorthodox blend of materials results in works Gumby calls “tonal paintings”, each producing unique hues, values and energies. Dynamic and vibrant, Gumby’s paintings propose an expanded understanding of abstraction, color, life and the origins of the universe. Gumby graduated from the Yale School of Art with an MFA in Painting and Printmaking in 2016. He has won notable awards such as the Austrian American Foundation/ Seebacher Prize for Fine Arts and the Robert Reed Memorial Scholarship. Gumby has also participated in numerous international artist residencies such as the Rauschenberg Residency (2019), London Summer Intensive (2016), Summer Academy in Salzburg, Austria (2015), 6Base (2016), Harriet Hale Woolley Scholarship at the Fondation des Étas-Unis in Paris (2016) and is the 2024-2025 recipient of the prestigious Pollock-Krasner Foundation grant for artists.