Loren Howard's thematic color for the Prism exhibition was orange, a choice the sculptor favors because he loves the golden glaze for his ceramics.If you go
› What: Prism Pop-Up Gallery› Where: Granfalloon, 400 E. Main St., Suite 120› When: 6-10 p.m. Tuesday, June 7› Admission: $5; free for children under 12
Artists in the Show and Their Colors
Adam Kirby – RedAmy Dinsmore — OrangeAntony Squizzato — RedClaire Bloomfield — YellowDana Ortega — IndigoDerick Shaffer — VioletJullian Walther — BlueKayla Coolan — VioletLeah Hoffman — IndigoLoren Howard — OrangeMary Hamby — YellowMyles Freeman — BlueRon Johnson — GreenSean Clark — RainbowYuri Ozaki — Green
Prism Pop-Up Gallery is, like all pop-ups, designed to be magically fleeting but leave a permanent impact.
Instead of assigning topics or themes to her artists, curator Lizi Campbell asked each one to name his or her favorite color. She then assigned two artists per color to produce a work of art that was primarily red, green, orange, yellow, indigo, violet or blue.
"The 15th artist was assigned rainbow, all of the colors together in one work of art," says Campbell, a 22-year-old studying for a career in science.
"It's the first show I've ever curated, so I was a little nervous, and I felt that I needed to reassure veteran artists here that I knew what I was doing. And I think I did. They produced beautiful, amazing art in different media - acrylic and oil paintings, different types of sculpture."
She was pleased to see that several artists offered works priced below $50 in an effort to make them affordable to art lovers at every income level.
The works will be displayed in the Granfalloon on Tuesday, June 7, from 6 to 10 p.m. Two artists, Susan Creswell and Tony Marz, will be painting live at the show.
Sculptor Loren Howard studied engineering at Southern Adventist University, including 3-D animation and modeling, and those skills served him well for the Prism show when he envisioned an object emerging from a lump of clay.
"Lizi asked me what I wanted my color to be, and I said orange because my favorite ceramic glaze is this deep, golden orange," Howard says. "Having one color as the theme was not restrictive, not at all. It's an inspiring color for me."
He describes his bronze-hued urn as a "stoneware, 17 1/2 inches high, gas-fired to 2,380 degrees with propane."
Tickets to Prism are $5, and 10 percent of sales will go to the Hart Gallery, a nonprofit on the Southside that displays art and jewelry created by the homeless and the disabled.
But money from the sale of the actual artwork will go "100 percent" to the artists, Campbell says. "There is no middleman getting a cut."
Contact Lynda Edwards at 423-757-6391 or ledwards@timesfreepress.com.