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Color Made

January 10, 2025 - May 17, 2025

West Gallery

The Marjorie Barrick Museum of Art is proud to present Color Made, an exhibition of sixteen artists who use color to define and reshape the world. Manipulating bright shades of blue, red, pink, yellow, and green across different mediums such as painting, fabric sculpture, and cast glass, these artists establish spaces where they can create narratives and build community connections. By choosing to cover a surface with color—or by making the color and the surface indivisible—they experiment with the idea of painting, turning the traditional painters’ canvas into an independent, manipulable form and asking if other materials can play the same role.

This exhibition includes a special screening of Beck + Col’s Red Night, an independent feature film set in a colorful world where five monsters come together to defend their queer chosen family against a violent intruder.


Color Made includes art from the Marjorie Barrick Museum of Art’s permanent collection (Jason Adkins, Tim Bavington, Chris Duncan, Jacqueline Ehlis, Ash Ferlito and Matt Taber, Harold Paris, Lyssa Park, Heidi Schwegler, Bettina Werner, and Thomas Ray Willis), as well as guest artworks by Michael Batty, Yoko Kondo Konopik, Naes Pierrot, and Beck + Col with Ching Ching Cheng, Sapira Cheuk, and Ofelia Marquez. The film Red Night features art by Tanya Brodsky, Ching Ching Cheng, Sapira Cheuk, Jenny Eom, Vanessa Holyoak, Hea-Mi Kim, Ofelia Marquez, Minga Opazo, Alicia Piller, and Amia Yokoyama.

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  1. Campi Neri De Pensieri by Bettina Werner, Image 3.

    Bettina Werner

    Campi Neri De Pensieri, 1991

    Salt, resin and pigment on plastic panel

    10 x 8 x 1.75 in

  2. Jawbreaker by Jason Adkins, Image 2.

    Jason Adkins

    Jawbreaker, 2008

    MDF-UL, oil lacquer, clear coat

    55 x 47 x 47 in

  3. Kite A by Thomas Ray Willis, Image 1.

    Thomas Ray Willis

    Kite A, 2013

    Canvas, wood, acrylic gesso, string, metal staples

    24 x 24 x 0.5 in

  4. Laughy Taffy: Lemon, Blueberry, Grape, Apple, Cherry, Orange by Jacqueline Ehlis, Image 6.

    Jacqueline Ehlis

    Laughy Taffy: Lemon, Blueberry, Grape, Apple, Cherry, Orange, 2004

    Acrylic on panel

    12 x 24 x 2.5 in

  5. Little Miss Lover (Study #4) by Tim Bavington, Image 4.

    Tim Bavington

    Little Miss Lover (Study #4), 2010

    Acrylic on paper

    10.5 x 9.5 x 0.5 in

  6. Oil Spill Soul by Harold Paris, Image 4.

    Harold Paris

    Oil Spill Soul, 1973

    Mixed media

    12 x 13 x 8 in

  7. Quartet in Blue by Yoko Kondo Konopik, Image 5.

    Yoko Kondo Konopik

    Quartet in Blue, 1994

    Oil on canvas and wood

    47.75 x 36 x 1.375 in

  8. Quartet in the Night by Yoko Kondo Konopik, Image 4.

    Yoko Kondo Konopik

    Quartet in the Night, 1994

    Oil on wood

    48.5 x 48.5 x 0.75 in

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About the artist

Yoko Kondo Konopik

Yoko Kondo Konopik is a Japanese-American painter whose abstract compositions bring shape, line, and color together in precise harmony. She studied painting at the ateliers of artists S. Etchuya, T. Daikubara (Tokyo, Japan), and Richard Wilhelm (Paris, France). She has been a member of the Koenji and Ginsai Art Groups (Tokyo, Japan), The Art League (Alexandria, Virginia, U.S.A.), and the Henderson Art Association (Henderson, Nevada). Her work has been exhibited in Egypt, Indonesia, Japan, and the United States.