Strand Gallery
January 13 – February 25, 2018
Opening Reception Saturday, January 13, 2018
6:00 – 9:00 PM
Artist talk at 6:30 PM
The Color Condition
Premium Quality
Known for their playful and immersive environments created from a variety of plastic and light weight fabrics, The Color Condition aims to make work that calls attention to the sites where they are installed. Drawn to repetition, patterns, color, and the natural motion of wind, the Color Condition transforms synthetic materials into installations that mimic objects found in the natural environment. Their exhibition, Premium Quality, explores a symbolic collision of the internal and external components of their installations, done and undone, to reveal their hidden woven structures.
The Color Condition is an ongoing collaboration and experiment established in 2010 between Dallas-based artists Marianne Newsom and Sunny Sliger. Their installations and environments have been featured across the US, including public art installations at Lollapalooza, Chicago, IL (2015 & 2016); Austin City Limits; The Pilgrimage Festival, Franklin, TN; as well as exhibitions at Umbrella Gallery and Beefhaus Gallery, Dallas, TX. Their most recent site-specific temporary public art installation for Discovery Green and Houston First Corporation was their largest to date and encompassed the park and Avenida de las Americas in downtown Houston in the fall of 2016.
