DANBURY, Connecticut — The Gallery at The Visual & Performing Arts Center at Western Connecticut State University, 43 Lake Ave. Extension in Danbury, will present the exhibit “Color and Light” on view Feb. 6 through March 2, 2025, featuring the work of artists Fritz Horstman, Anne Lindberg, Greg Lock, Pete Mauney, Colleen McGuire, and Julia Rooney.
This exhibition’s focus is as simple as the title suggests: six artists explore the interaction of color and the phenomenon of light, considerations that have captivated and challenged visual artists throughout history, even as the tools and techniques of creating art have expanded. This multi-media exhibition includes works in painting, drawing, sculpture, photography, cyanotype, animation, virtual environments and video.
The gallery’s exhibition shares its title with a song performed in Act I of Stephen Sondheim’s Pulitzer Prize-winning musical, “Sunday in the Park with George,” which imagines the creation of Post-Impressionist painter George Seurat’s 1884 masterpiece, “A Sunday on La Grand Jatte.” The musical will be presented by WestConn’s Department of Theatre Arts Feb. 21 – March 2. Seurat’s preoccupation with understanding optics and perception via the artistic process holds just as true for visual artists today.