Chroma+Lux: Abstractions in Color and Light 

Larry Akers and Janet Brooks

Exhibition Dates: 10/05/2023 - 10/29/2023

Opening Reception: 10/05/2023 6-8pm

Artists’ talk: Thursday, October 19, 7:30 pm. Gallery open 6-9 pm

 Larry Akers is a constructive sculptor with mathematics and computer science degrees; his career included formal methods for computing, artificial intelligence, and software engineering. This background has led him to an affinity for pattern that infuses artwork in which he explores both pattern and color with complexity and nuance. He honors Carlos Cruz-Diez, Bridget Riley, and Jesus Soto in his work for this show.    eyeplaystudio.ne 

Janet Brooks is a visual artist, book designer, and art educator. She is a 2nd generation student of Josef Albers [1888–1976], the master colorist – two of her professors were his students at Yale, where he taught after leaving the Bauhaus in Germany. Her pure-abstraction series of designs, drawings, paintings, and serigraphs combine color and pattern in varied compositions that celebrate mental and visual geometric play. She is further inspired by Wassily Kandinsky, Richard Anuszkiewicz, and Vincent Mariani. www.JanetBrooks.com 

Larry and Janet were neighbors in their college days at the University of Texas at Austin. Years later, they crossed paths at art shows and found that they both have a love of color, pattern, and abstraction in art. This exhibition is an exciting intersection of styles, methods, and materials – while some works are similar, others are quite divergent.