From Charles Adams Gallery:

“The aim of our studies is to prove that color is the most relative means of artistic expression, that we never really perceive what color is physically.” - Josef Albers

In Living Color is a communal statement of shared discoveries and understanding of process, form and color as means of expression. As Josef Albers eloquently points out color is the most relative means of expression in art and yet its physical essence is never fully perceived. The core of this conundrum is what unifies the physical representation of these artists' intimate exploration in art making with their unique practices.

Efrén Candelaria (San Juan, PR, 1980). Puerto Rican Interdisciplinary artist and social entrepreneur. Efrén has had a highly prolific artistic practice that led him to present his works (including multimedia installations, paintings, drawings, and other social projects) in the United States, Argentina, Puerto Rico, and Germany, among others. For the past 20 years Candelaria has held art studios in Miami, NYC, Chicago and most recently, in 2022, he re-established his studio practice in Brownsville, Texas. This new home for his painting atelier is one of the southernmost cities in the contiguous US, where he is exploring the parallelisms in the lived experiences and cultural manifestations of colonialism related to living in the Border.

Russell Dammers is a New Zealand artist based in Marfa Tx. He uses everyday materials such as non-slip floor mesh as painting surfaces to explore Nature of Nature. Russell Dammers is influenced by Op art, and the light and space movements, metaphysical science, and arcane geometry.

Noah Kashiani (b.1992 Cleveland, Ohio) lives in Chicago Illinois after receiving his MFA from Northern Illinois University (2019). Kashiani's work carefully balances harmony and discord. The exploitation of late capitalism is often represented as it explores the reality of class disparity, value, and what objects mean to us as humans. Recent exhibitions include Oh, Gods of Dust and Rainbows Front International Triennial at Curated Storefront (Akron, OH), V Crushable at Carthage College (Kenosha, WI), and Big Box Country at Marfa Open (Marfa, TX). With upcoming exhibitions in 2023 at Heaven Gallery in Chicago.

Paul Clarence Oglesby, self-trained artist born in San Antonio, Texas, early life spent on a farm at the edge of the Texas Hill country. Graduate of Devine High, one semester at S.W.T.S. in San Marcos, 12 years working in horticultural therapy doing vocational and cognitive retraining with head injured and psychiatric patients from around the world. Paul is a commercial interior exterior designer, garden designer/builder, environmentalist, and sculptor.

Curtis Paul Bordenave lll, aka Noodle. I am a creole artist From New Orleans, LA. I live in Marfa, Texas, and I love making art that is raw and filled with love.

Martha Hughes began life in the Texas Panhandle where she accompanied her archeologist father and journalist mother on their travels across the High Plains and acquired a love of landscape and art. She obtained a BFA in Studio Art from the University of Texas at Austin in 1973, and her work is included in numerous private and corporate collections.