I have recently been exploring installation art and particularly installations and experiences using light as the medium. Artists like Dan Flavin and Olafur Eliasson (see The Weather Project) have shown me through their art how transformative this medium can be and how much fun you can have playing inside spaces.

Carlos Cruz Diez’s Chromosaturation (2008)

I stumbled upon this show being advertised in London (Hayward Gallery) and I so wish I could attend. Any exhibit with light, mist and strobes is worthy to check out in my book. If you're in London be sure to visit and see how light can transform your environment... and if you do visit be sure to let me know how it was! xx

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Photo by LadyKdesigns

Tableau I: Lozenge with Four Lines and Gray
Piet Mondrian (Dutch, 1872–1944)
1926. Oil on canvas, 44 3/4 x 44" (113.7 x 111.8 cm) diagonal measurements. Katherine S. Dreier Bequest
179.1953

I recently headed up to The Metropolitan Museum of Art to see the Matisse: In Search of True Painting exhibit which focuses on his use of color in his paintings. I absolutely loved the show. I have always loved the color in Matisse's work, especially the oranges. And I rediscovered so much more about Matisse last year in Paris. But this show highlighted some unusual color palette's like the one in my favorite work in the show, Laurette in a Green Robe, Black Background.

Henri Matisse (French, 1869–1954)

Laurette in a Green Robe, Black Background, 1916
Oil on canvas; 28 3/4 x 21 3/8 in. (73 x 54.3 cm)

The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Jacques and Natasha Gelman Collection, 1998 (1999.363.43)
© 2012 Succession H. Matisse / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York
Image from metmuseum.org.