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New Color in the Times of Slow Coffee / Michelle Maguire, Kelsey McClellan, Kristin Texeira
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Edition 28 of 50
Description from book:
"Color is the magnetic force that bonds this trio, asserting their collective vision. New Color in the Times of Slow Coffee is the result of the asynchronous exploration they shared in a year otherwise defined by insularity and isolation. As ordinary patterns and familiar ways of living continued to upend amid the onset of coronavirus, Kelsey, Kristin, and Michelle found themselves working together in a sort-of artists’ residence. Despite the suspension of traditional “work,” they chose to work together, a continuous exercise in inspiration. They found common studio space between lines of snail mail, text messages, video chats, and volleys of emails.
Kelsey, living and working in San Francisco, California, and Michelle in Columbus, Ohio, first offered a series of ten photographs inspired by the shapes and palettes of Kristin’s paintings. Under stay-at-home orders and reliant on using items already in their respective possessions, Michelle and Kelsey worked together to assemble props and materials to create sets that replicated Kristin’s paintings. From a cabin in upstate New York, Kristin answered each of the curated compositions with paintings that closely (but not exactly) resembled Kelsey and Michelle’s images."
"Published by Michelle Maguire, Kelsey McClellan, and Kristin Texeira on the occasion of the exhibition "New Color in the Times of Slow Coffee" at Stephanie Chefas Gallery, Portland, Oregon, April 3-24, 2021."
