Variations on Cerulean Phthalo, and ice blue collects 68 of the works on paper exhibited during Emma Kohlmann’s April 2018 exhibit at the Jack Hanley Gallery (New York City). Kohlmann has painted people, often in various erotic poses or interactions, and miscellaneous objects in the titular hues, as well as some yellow ochre.
According to the foreword, Kohlmann’s work “is that of dreams rising up to declare themselves equal to the reality that encases them. The images she conjures point to ancient remembrances, satellites of the soul that orbit our center as they orbit their own. … In this collection, images of transition reveal their still point. Doubles dance with themselves and apparitions collect in the mirror. … Things take flight, limbs separate and branches bend. The chimera stirs. The form springs from itself, a human droplet, a face in the foot. … one of the first expressions of psyche: energy made matter.”