Magical Magenta show open at Gallery One
Gallery One in Ocean View announced its Magical Magenta exhibit is open to the public through Tuesday, March 29.
Magenta, a color created by mixing blue, light blue, violet and red, is an extra-special hue. In the 1700s, Goethe described magenta as the eighth color, which mysteriously appears beyond violet and before red, which in effect creates a color loop rather than a line as in the rainbow. Therefore, it is both the beginning and end of the color spectrum.
This month, Gallery One’s artists share their love of magenta. The expression, “Red sky at night, sailors delight; red sky at morn, sailors be warned,” is based on the observation that a reddish glow of the morning or evening sky often results in dramatic weather changes. A magenta glow signifies a high-pressure air mass with stable air trapping particles, like dust, which scatter the sun’s blue light. That scientific explanation is more beautifully and romantically depicted in these artists’ landscapes this month.
In Leo Kahl’s acrylic “Snow Birds,” the rosy glow of dawn after a snowstorm bathes the marshland and a local shorebird in its magenta hue.
Mary Bode Byrd ‘s “Magenta Sunrise” features a lone shorebird scanning the water line for food while the morning sun casts a magenta glow over the fronds and grasses.
Joyce Condry’s flamingos make their own magenta in “Pretty in Magenta.”
Lesley McCaskill’s “Catch the Light,” an acrylic, captures the intricate patterns made by the reflections of a magenta morning sky streaked with the colors of dawn, while artist Cindy Beyer’s pastel painting, “Pink Angel Sunset” captures the fleeting magenta light of sunset.
Marybeth Paterson’s oil, “Canary Creek,” highlights the wispy magenta clouds floating above a classic marsh landscape in complementary greens. And in “Majesty,” an oil painting by Eileen Olson, the lush foliage on the shoreline vibrates in magenta.
Artists Dale Sheldon’s “Keukenhof Colors II” and Jill Glassman’s oil painting, “Precocious,” celebrate the beauty of magenta in florals. In Sheldon’s painting, the blue and magenta flowers create a pathway between the trees at Keukenhof Gardens in Amsterdam. In Glassman’s painting, tulips, the harbingers of spring, pose for their magenta portrait.
For Laura Hickman, a drive through Fenwick Island after the last snow provided inspiration for her pastel painting, “Fenwick Cottage.” “I came upon this small cottage with a slightly faded magenta chair and shutters. It seemed to be waiting for all this to melt and warmer days to finally arrive. At this point in the season, we are all waiting for that,” she said.
Gallery One is open from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. every day at at 32 Atlantic Ave., Ocean View.
For more information, call 302-537-5055, email art@galleryonede.com or go to galleryonede.com.
