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Meg Cranston: Hue Saturation Value
Friday, November 9th - Friday, December 21st 2018 Eastern Star Gallery at The Archer School for Girls The Eastern Star Gallery is pleased to present Hue Saturation Value, an installation by artist Meg Cranston that explores color theory and the visual components that are encaptured in the concept of color. In her paintings, Cranston delves into color within our world. She explores how color is a concept that is both culturally and industrially programmed into our everyday lives, inspiring us to look at and rethink the associations we have with them. Born out of her interest in color forecasting and its domination by the Pantone corporation, her work resists corporate color programming and offers the audience the opportunity to create an alternative. The Pantone corporation forecasted the colors Turmeric and Aspen Gold (otherwise known as Cadmium Yellow and Cadmium Yellow Light) for Spring 2019. Yellow is a color rich in hue, saturation, and value, the three properties of color, as well as the name of the show. The show is titled this because hue is the broad term which we typically us when refer to when describing a color, such as yellow. It describes the dimension of color we readily experience upon looking at color, color in its purest form. A homonym of hue is you, highlighting how the hue is the purest form. |
When artists or designers describe color, saturation refers to the purity of the hue. A hue yellow at full saturation has nothing but yellow in it, making it almost as bright as white. Saturation as ubiquity or the point of total absorption means to fill until there is no further tendency to combine.
The value of a hue does not only refer to how light or dark the hue is indicating the quantity of light reflected, but also contributes to our society’s aesthetic in a larger sense. All manufacturers pay attention to the Pantone forecast: Tumeric and Aspen Gold
will saturate the market in 2019 to generate value, further proving the importance of hue in our world.
Given the Eastern Star Gallery’s rich history as a chapel before the school was established, for this exhibition, Cranston has created four works that are made up of colorful rectangles in the same or similar hue, resembling stained glass windows. The artist will be holding focus groups on campus about color theory and will create a final painting based on the Archer students’ favorites.
Raised in Baldwin, New York, Meg Cranston currently lives and works in Los Angeles. She earned her B.A. in Anthropology/Sociology from Kenyon College and her MFA from the California Institute of the Arts. Cranston has been exhibiting internationally since 1988. Her early exhibitions include the Helter Skelter exhibition at MOCA, the Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles, and the Venice Biennale (1993). Her work has been included in the Hammer Museum’s Made in LA 2012 exhibition and is part of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art’s private collection. She is also the recipient of numerous awards, such as the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship, J. Paul Getty Community Foundation Artist Grant, Architectural Foundation of American Art in Public Places Award, and a COLA Artist Grant. She currently serves as the Chair of Fine Arts at Otis College of Art and Design in Los Angeles.
The Eastern Star Gallery is a unique art exhibition space located on the campus of The Archer School for Girls, an independent middle and high school in Brentwood, Los Angeles. On Friday, November 9, Archer will host a public gallery opening and reception for the artist from 6:00-8:00 PM. The exhibition is open to the public by appointment Monday through Friday 8 AM-5 PM. The Archer School for Girls is located at 11725 Sunset Boulevard, Los Angeles, CA 90049. To make an appointment to visit the exhibition after the opening, please call (310) 873-7013 or email [email protected].
The value of a hue does not only refer to how light or dark the hue is indicating the quantity of light reflected, but also contributes to our society’s aesthetic in a larger sense. All manufacturers pay attention to the Pantone forecast: Tumeric and Aspen Gold
will saturate the market in 2019 to generate value, further proving the importance of hue in our world.
Given the Eastern Star Gallery’s rich history as a chapel before the school was established, for this exhibition, Cranston has created four works that are made up of colorful rectangles in the same or similar hue, resembling stained glass windows. The artist will be holding focus groups on campus about color theory and will create a final painting based on the Archer students’ favorites.
Raised in Baldwin, New York, Meg Cranston currently lives and works in Los Angeles. She earned her B.A. in Anthropology/Sociology from Kenyon College and her MFA from the California Institute of the Arts. Cranston has been exhibiting internationally since 1988. Her early exhibitions include the Helter Skelter exhibition at MOCA, the Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles, and the Venice Biennale (1993). Her work has been included in the Hammer Museum’s Made in LA 2012 exhibition and is part of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art’s private collection. She is also the recipient of numerous awards, such as the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship, J. Paul Getty Community Foundation Artist Grant, Architectural Foundation of American Art in Public Places Award, and a COLA Artist Grant. She currently serves as the Chair of Fine Arts at Otis College of Art and Design in Los Angeles.
The Eastern Star Gallery is a unique art exhibition space located on the campus of The Archer School for Girls, an independent middle and high school in Brentwood, Los Angeles. On Friday, November 9, Archer will host a public gallery opening and reception for the artist from 6:00-8:00 PM. The exhibition is open to the public by appointment Monday through Friday 8 AM-5 PM. The Archer School for Girls is located at 11725 Sunset Boulevard, Los Angeles, CA 90049. To make an appointment to visit the exhibition after the opening, please call (310) 873-7013 or email [email protected].
ABOUT THE TITLE: BY THE ARTIST
Hue saturation and value are the three properties of color. I like the homonym hue/you. I also like multiple meanings of words saturation and value. When artists or designers describe color, saturation (or chroma) refers to the purity of the hue. Value refers to how light or dark the hue is. The hue yellow at full saturation or full chroma has nothing but yellow in it. Yellow at full saturation is very high value color because it is nearly as bright at white. We can also talk about saturation as ubiquity or the point of total absorption. For Spring 2019 the Pantone corporation forecasted the colors Turmeric and Aspen Gold (aka Cadmium Yellow and Cadium Yellow Light). Because all manufacturers pay attention to the the Pantone forecast Tumeric and Aspen Gold will saturate the market in 2019 to generate value in the other sense of the word.
Hue saturation and value are the three properties of color. I like the homonym hue/you. I also like multiple meanings of words saturation and value. When artists or designers describe color, saturation (or chroma) refers to the purity of the hue. Value refers to how light or dark the hue is. The hue yellow at full saturation or full chroma has nothing but yellow in it. Yellow at full saturation is very high value color because it is nearly as bright at white. We can also talk about saturation as ubiquity or the point of total absorption. For Spring 2019 the Pantone corporation forecasted the colors Turmeric and Aspen Gold (aka Cadmium Yellow and Cadium Yellow Light). Because all manufacturers pay attention to the the Pantone forecast Tumeric and Aspen Gold will saturate the market in 2019 to generate value in the other sense of the word.
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