Artist Spotlight: Isabelle Hope Grahm - My Color Garden

Isabelle Hope Grahm, Felicis Celebritas, Acrylic on canvas, 60.5 x 72"

Isabelle Hope Grahm’s debut exhibition at TAG speaks from an ethereal or aerial view depicting civilizations from a great distance; not only from above in the sky but in the minds eye of God. My Color Garden shows human beings simultaneously through a macrocosm as well as a microcosm.

Isabelle Hope Grahm, Energetic Photon Flash, Acrylic on canvas, 48 x 60"

The energetic patterning of living forms are seen through color, the relationships shown are very close, yet apart. Each individual space, utterly influenced by the space next to it, remains its own entity amidst the whole. The work, although comprised of a multiplicity of separate parts, cannot be denied as one organism itself.

Isabelle Hope Graham, Instructions, Acrylic on canvas, 48 x 48"

Grahm states: “While it appears (and feels) as if we are living our own separate existence, our true condition is more like a solitary communal one. If mankind does not become extinct, some secret doctrine extolling this ancient paradox may be revealed as THE ONE hidden amongst the many.”

Isabelle Hope Graham, Boop Boop Ditum Datum, Acrylic on canvas, 36 x 48"

These paintings provide a lens showing people, culture, and city life patterns forming and shaping autonomous compartments, businesses and social juxtapositions. The stark lack of differences between “inner and outer” are demonstrated as Grahm’s primary influence. Looking closely one can catch a glimpse that the seer and the seen cannot be separate.

Tuesday, May 15 - Saturday, June 9 

Artist Talk: Saturday, June 2, 3pm