Johansson Projects presents work by Susie Taylor and Craig Dorety, two artists who love the experience of exploring the relationship of colors, how they affect one another, and us.

Craig Dorety’s pastel palettes are rich in celestial reference points and create a wonderfully updated language and landscape for abstraction. Concentric circles of kinetically colored space interact amongst peers and dance for us in ways that suggest movement, metamorphosis, and magic.

Susie Taylor‘s expert use of a loom allows her to explore ideas and interactions of translucency and opacity. Pattern and symmetry, saturation and color interaction. Her intersections of warp and weft create beautifully ordered systems that still flirt with chance, interruption, and improvisation.

Taylor and Dorety dive deep into their processes in producing sensual, other-worldly, and dimensional constructions. Their technical fascinations couldn’t be more distinct – Taylor finding proficiency on a loom while Dorety is awash in a landscape of ones and zeros. Taylor expresses in cotton thread, while Dorety finds his expression through light-emitting diodes. Both are applying their color mediums to a substrate in their search for the sublime. But regardless of how one viewer’s experience of color can be different from another’s, it is the way we enjoy our experience that speaks to our humanity and awareness of our being in the world.