St. Louis Artists' Guild: Friday, 28 September 2018

Margi Weir: The Politics of Hue
Opening Reception and Artist Talk
Friday, September 28 from 5pm to 8pm

The St. Louis Artists' Guild welcomes a new body of work by Margi Weir titled "The Politics of Hue." In this new body of work, Ms. Weir finds inspiration for imagery from anywhere: from the street where she lives, from television or film, or from the internet. This most recent series of paintings on Plexiglas panels surrounded by vinyl on the gallery wall is titled “The Politics of Hue.” The Politics of Hue does not connote racial or identity politics and instead finds inspiration in the color divide during the last Presidential campaign between red and blue. There are currently 9 pieces in the series; red, blue, white, green, gold, yellow, orange, silver and purple.

Weir groups images of related things or repeated objects in stacked rows in a two-dimensional composition (paintings, prints, or cut vinyl). This stacking is a visual metaphor for the ways that bits of information are thrown at us, daily, with only occasional “in-depth coverage.” By placing a row of spatially flattened imagery on top of a row of images that suggest the illusion of space, Weir finds an appropriate way to visually represent the twenty-first-century experience of receiving information from many points of view simultaneously and often without a gauge by which to determine the validity of the information. The static point of view required for Renaissance perspective doesn’t reflect my contemporary experience. Neither does the medieval correlation of scale to status. In these new works Weir intentionally gives equal weight to positive and negative space.

This handling of space encourages perceptual shifts between positive and negative imagery by employing high black and white contrasts. “The Politics of Hue,” offers viewers a visual experience that has multiple layers of both meaning and process, where opposing views coexist within the accumulation of massive amounts of information.

Gallery Hours: Tuesday-Friday 10 am-6 pm and Saturday 10 am-4 pm

St. Louis Artists' Guild

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St. Louis, MO 63105

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