PRISMA: Color Coding
@ Art City
1400 N Halsted St, Chicago, IL 60642
Opening Friday, September 12th, from 5PM - 9PM
On view through Friday, October 10th
Combining painting and textile practice, PRISMA creates vibrant moments of intimacy and reflects on identity with fabric, dye, and plush. Anna Maria Andrade, who goes by the artist name PRISMA, was born and raised in Dallas, Texas to a Honduran-Spanish father and an American mother. Andrade discovered fiber arts in high school and then moved to Chicago to further study fiber and material studies at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.
Color Coding calls into the history of color signaling in queer communities and other historically marginalized groups, where color signals identity, intimacy, and resistance. PRISMA pulls from this color language to create her own color code and vocabulary of bodies, recalling moments of intimacy. The work in this show documents PRISMA’s transition from painting to textiles. Limited by traditional paint, she turned to synthetic fabric dye, which when combined with sodium alginate turns into a paint-like substance that bonds directly with natural fibers. By playing with fabrics by cutting, resewing, adding plush, and stitching to abstract the human figure, PRISMA transcends her paintings into textiles.
Join us for the opening reception of the artist’s debut solo exhibition at 1400 N Halsted, on Friday, September 12, 5-9 PM.
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Tags: Art City, Chicago Fine Art Salon, Color Coding, Lincoln Park, PRISMA, Prisma Andrade
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