Run Together and Look Ugly After the First Rain
Casey Kaplan•Feb 28, 2025 — Apr 26, 2025
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In 1927, George Washington Carver (b. 1864, Diamond, MO, d. 1943) patented a formula for a Prussian Blue pigment that was never realized to its potential. Over the last two years, Amanda Williams (b. 1974, Evanston, IL) collaborated with chemistry and research students at The University of Chicago and Xavier University in New Orleans to rekindle and catalyze Carver’s process. Williams’ debut exhibition at the gallery, titled Run Together and Look Ugly After the First Rain, actualizes her version of the pigment, called Innovation Blue. A new series of paintings on panel and collages on paper resist the margins of the color blue in a meditation on Blackness.
In a topographical study of medium, Williams and Carver sourced (a century apart) Alabaman red clay soil to produce their unique blue pigments. The soil and ingredients for a traditional chalk gesso binder are mixed and methodically applied as a foundation to wood panels laid horizontally on the floor of Williams’…
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Run Together and Look Ugly After the First Rain
Casey Kaplan•Feb 28, 2025 — Apr 26, 2025
Press Release
In 1927, George Washington Carver (b. 1864, Diamond, MO, d. 1943) patented a formula for a Prussian Blue pigment that was never realized to its potential. Over the last two years, Amanda Williams (b. 1974, Evanston, IL) collaborated with chemistry and research students at The University of Chicago and Xavier University in New Orleans to rekindle and catalyze Carver’s process. Williams’ debut exhibition at the gallery, titled Run Together and Look Ugly After the First Rain, actualizes her version of the pigment, called Innovation Blue. A new series of paintings on panel and collages on paper resist the margins of the color blue in a meditation on Blackness.
In a topographical study of medium, Williams and Carver sourced (a century apart) Alabaman red clay soil to produce their unique blue pigments. The soil and ingredients for a traditional chalk gesso binder are mixed and methodically applied as a foundation to wood panels laid horizontally on the floor of Williams’…
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