Chromosphere: The Color Theory Podcast

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2024-06-1159:07

The final episode of Season 3. A reflection on the past three seasons.The Book of Colour Concepts, Alexandra Loske and Sarah Lowengard, Taschen 2024Color Theory: A Critical Introduction, Aaron Fine, Bloomsbury Visual Arts, 2021Magenta + Green = Blue? Instagram video reelBlack Flag, TV Party, 1982Send us a textPlease find more information to each episode on the Chromosphere website.

Interview with Gamma Jeanne: I Love Blue

2024-05-1450:45

Interview with Gamma Jeanne; a departure from our more in-depth discussions of color theory. Jeanne's career as an artist spans over nine decades and includes working with acrylic paints in the 1940s and being at the center of department store design in the 1950s. Our conversation is wide-ranging as it addresses an artist's inner drive to create and form connections with people.Relevant links:The Terrazzo JungleBy Malcolm GladwellThe New Yorker March 7, 2004Victor Gruen; Gruen AssociatesSouth...

The Eclipse: Purkinje Shift Reprise

2024-04-0827:47

CNN online article: Wear red and green to experience the Purkinje effect during the total solar eclipseSend us a textPlease find more information to each episode on the Chromosphere website.

Interview with Luanne Stovall: A New 21st Century Color Literacy Paradigm

2024-03-1201:17:53

Luanne Stovall is an artist and color theorist with an MFA in painting from Tufts University and the School of the Museum of Fine Arts Boston. She attended the New York Studio School of Drawing, Painting, and Sculpture (New York City), and Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture (Skowhegan, Maine).Luanne is a member of the Steering Committee of the global Colour Literacy Project and a visiting lecturer in the School of Design and Creative Technologies at the University of Texas in Austin. ...

Interview with Suyao Tian: A Journey into Color

2024-02-1345:10

A conversation with artist, Suyao Tian exploring her process as a painter and her personal approaches to using color. Please find more information related to this episode here.Send us a textPlease find more information to each episode on the Chromosphere website.

Interview with Jon Reischl: Memory, Perception, and Experience

2024-01-0901:08:18

A conversation with Jon Rieschl. Please find additional resources to this episode here.Jon Reischl is a visual artist and designer specializing in mixed-media and oil painting. He has shown work locally in the Twin Cities and the greater metro area as well as regionally at venues throughout the Midwest. A graduate of St. Paul’s College of Visual Arts (RIP), He works out of Rock 9 Art Studio, located in the heart of the Creative Enterprise Zone. Jon lives on St. Paul’s East Side with his ...

Interview with Sebastián Wilson: The Mystery of Color

2023-12-1201:05:06

Sebastián Wilson is a photographer living in Santiago, Chile. He studied architecture which has a clear influence on his work both on the graphic sense, and on the way he observes and portrays light. For links and resources related to this episode, please see the Chromosphere episode webpage.Send us a textPlease find more information to each episode on the Chromosphere website.

Interview with Dr. David Briggs: Understanding and Applying Colour

2023-11-1449:35

Dr. David Briggs has been teaching classes on colour for more than 20 years, and currently teaches colour, drawing and painting at the National Art School and the University of Technology, Sydney, Australia. For links and resources related to this episode, please see the Chromosphere episode webpage.Send us a textPlease find more information to each episode on the Chromosphere website.

Interview with Jeremy Szopinski: Abstract Landscape Painting

2023-10-1037:57

I interview painter Jeremy Szopinski who is a good friend and longtime studio mate. For more information about the podcast and Jeremy's artworks, check out this website link.Send us a textPlease find more information to each episode on the Chromosphere website.

Mary Gartside and the Colour Ball: A Correction

2023-04-2530:48

The final episode of Season 2; includes a correction to the Mary Gartside episode from Season 1. The first version of this episode erroneously stated a connection between Mary Gartside and the writing of Johann von Goethe. This new episode was recorded as a correction and published on April 24, 2023. Mary Gartside was a painter, teacher, and color theorist who lived in England from 1755-1819. More information about Gartside can be found at: The Winterthur Museum's Program in American Material...

Focal Points and the Roots of Abstraction, part 1

2023-03-2833:44

Part one of a reading of an essay I am writing, Focal Points and the Roots of Abstraction.Human color vision adapts to the changing environment in many ways. Pupils dilate and constrict in order to regulate the amount of light entering the eye. The lens either bunches up or flattens out to change its shape while focusing light wavelengths along the spectral band at different proximities to the retina. Cone cells, and other light sensitive cells, perform plus-or-minus gains in activity to achi...

Red, White, Gray, and Black

2023-02-2829:59

Are nearly all the cars and trucks in your area either red, white, gray, or black? Discussion of red colors pairing to neutral colors as a color scheme.Send us a textPlease find more information to each episode on the Chromosphere website.

No Science and No Math

2023-01-2445:27

A review of a listener letter.Send us a textPlease find more information to each episode on the Chromosphere website.

Color Theory and the Grocery Store

2022-12-2719:25

A walk through the grocery store in search of the analogous split-complementary color scheme as well as other palettes.Send us a textPlease find more information to each episode on the Chromosphere website.

Harmony part 3: A New Canon

2022-11-2916:09

Part 3 of 3: The final installment, A New Canon, places the work of color theorists, Mary Gartside and Emily Noyes Vanderpoel in historical context so as to examine how their inclusion (and by extension, additional underrepresented color theorists and practitioners) may help us to understand how we may expand our contemporary approaches to color usage in all creative visual fields. Send us a textPlease find more information to each episode on the Chromosphere website.

Harmony part 2

2022-10-2516:13

Part 2 of 3. In this episode, I read the middle portion of an essay I have written, which could become a chapter in a future publication. (Read in three parts.)Abstract:This essay charts how the term harmony came to be used by European and North American artists, designers, and educators as a qualitative descriptor of color usage and design. Originating in metaphysics and philosophy in BCE Greece as a method to link the functioning of the five senses, including color vision, the concept...

Harmony part 1

2022-09-2728:11

Part 1 of 3. In this episode, I read the beginning of an essay I have written, which could become a chapter in a future publication. (Read in three parts.)Abstract:This essay charts how the term harmony came to be used by European and North American artists, designers, and educators as a qualitative descriptor of color usage and design. Originating in metaphysics and philosophy in BCE Greece as a method to link the functioning of the five senses, including color vision, the concept ente...

Primary Colors part 3

2022-08-2931:31

Welcome to Season 2! This episode features a correction on the first episode of Season 1, followed by the continued investigation of how red, yellow, and blue became known widely as primary colors.Send us a textPlease find more information to each episode on the Chromosphere website.

Green: Are There More Greens than Any Other Color?

2022-01-1830:30

The final episode of Season 1. I explore whether or not there are more variations of color within the hue of green; more than those of the other hue color families. Thank you for listening to Season 1!Send us a textPlease find more information to each episode on the Chromosphere website.

Telescopes & Color Theory

2022-01-1124:32

Discussion of the impact of telescopes on the development of color theory. Also linear & aerial perspective in relation to depth and space, and what any of that has to do with the newly-launched James Webb Space Telescope.Send us a textPlease find more information to each episode on the Chromosphere website.

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