Explosions of Color by Carlos Hernández Chávez

If you were hoping for demure neutrals and pastels, you won’t find many here.

Carlos Hernández Chávez’s new solo exhibit, Dialogues: Impromptu Conversations in Color, provides a diversion from the time of year when winter is often less than lovely: now. The snowbanks are hard and gray, the streets are still a mess from last week’s storm, and if we hear one more debate over television stations naming winter storms, we are going to scream.

So, thank the artist for a free, temporary escape.

In his artist statement, Hernández Chávez’ says that color “brings consciousness into things that may be insignificant to others: the iridescence of a bird’s plumage, or the morning’s pink and yellow sunbeams washing on my bedroom wall; the orange glow of streetlights on freshly fallen snow; the shiny rainbows flowing in an oil slick washed by the rain.”