This Aries palette intrigued me so much I had to play with it some more. It’s hard not to do an energetic painting with these colors but I also challenged myself with a calmer, more minimalist vibe as well. I don’t know that I would ever try this color palette with real paints tbh. I know how but mainly I’m not sure I could pull those incredibly saturated colors. Maybe I could. But that is one of those things with digital painting is sometimes the values aren’t quite possible with real paint.
That said, there are ways to make non neon colors look neon (I avoid neons generally the shit just ain’t lightfast even the pro stuff it’s just the nature of the beast. I do love neon pink though) maybe I would challenge myself sometime with this palette irl
Right now though I’m enjoying playing with it and just exploring what can be done with it.
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Some of my favorites from the VIP Preview and Opening Night of Expo Chicago on Thursday. The art fair is now open to the public!
1. Declassified CIA documents chronicling US interventions replacing left-wing governments with right-wing regimes, primarily in Latin America. Voluspa Jarpa, Desclasificados (Declassified), NOME.
2. Monica Ikegwu, Jessica and Jazz, Galerie Myrtis.
3. After viewing the above booth, I heard someone shout, "JENNY?!" and it was my friend Krystal Boney, pictured here with Manolo Valdés, Helene I - Gustav Klimt Judith, bogéna galerie. We hadn't seen each other in 5 years! And we ended up walking the entire fair together (even though she'd gotten there earlier and had seen most of it already) and it was so great. <3 Running into friends is always the best part about Expo!
4. Manyaku Mashilo, How About a New Way to Pray, Southern Guild.
5. This painter is always a favorite of mine. Antonio Santín, Alboroto, Marc Straus.
6. Thandiwe Muriu, Camo-Untitled, 193 Gallery.
7. Nir Hod, 100 Years Is Not Enough and Scratches of Butterfly, Michael Kohn Gallery.
8. Selfie by Krystal of us in front of the above. I'm not ducking down; Krystal was amused she could do this.
9. Whitfield Lovell, Wayfarer series, DC Moore Gallery.
10. Jacob Rochester, Residency Art Gallery.11. Mohau Modisakeng, Imvu Nomfula (The Lamb and the River), Martin Art Projects.
12. Stephen Eichhorn, Window to the (Passion Flower), Secrist | Beach.
13. Robert Pruitt, Monster and Lemon Tree, Vielmetter Los Angeles.
14. Anahita Akhavan, Duran | Mashaal.
15. Ian Davenport, Blossom, Kasmin.
16. Olasunkanmi Akomolehin, Kornfeld Galerie Berlin.
17. Kim Piotrowski, Caprice, McCormick Gallery.
18. Zanele Muholi, Galerie Carole Kvasnevski.
19. Bassim Al Shaker, Swarming, Resurrection, and Termination, Rhona Hoffman Gallery.
20. Seba Calfuqueo, Labor.
[Edit: Thank you Carol Fox and Associates for sharing my Instagram post in your stories and thank you Do312 for retweeting my Twitter thread!]
// (c) Jenny Lam 2024
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