Black, White and Gray: An Achromatic Color Exhibit Drawing Rooms Solo Project Space

Black White & Gray: An Achromatic Color Exhibit

SOLO SPACE- Lori Ortiz: Keys to the City
ALCOVE GALLERY-
Susan Reedy: Urban Narrative

Gallery Hours:
Thurs/Fri, 4-7p
Sat/Sun, 2-6p

Exhibition Dates - 6/11/26 - 7/12/26

EVENTS

* Opening Reception: Saturday, 6/13/26, 6-8p
* Meet the Artists: Sunday, 6/28/26, 3-5p
* Closing Reception Sunday 7/12/26 4-6p

Black White and Gray: an Achromatic Color Exhibit is an elegant show which includes exciting nature drawing, graphic form and a wide range of abstraction using only black, white and works in gray too.
Black and white sit on opposing ends of the grayscale. As with all achromatic colors, black lacks hue and absorbs all light wavelengths. White combines and reflects all visible wavelengths, so while it contains all colors, it is still perceived as lacking hue. The contrast between white and black is the greatest of any color combination, providing a bold and dramatic look.
Famous artworks using an achromatic color scheme—composed entirely of black, white, and grey—focus on form, contrast, and texture over color include Bridget Riley’s op-art piece “White Disks”, Kazimir Malevich’s “Black Square”, featuring a simple black square on a white background, Robert Motherwell’s “Elegy to the Spanish Republic” series, Vija Celmins’ gray-toned illustrations of oceans, deserts, and night skies, and Franz Kline’s large-scale, black-and-white abstract expressionist paintings, such as “Black, White, and Gray”. The artists in Black White & Gray: An Achromatic Color Exhibit present works in black, white and gray using their own monochromatic voice and vocabulary.

Drawing Rooms Solo Project Space:
Lori Ortiz: Keys to the City
Lori Ortiz is a Brooklyn-born painter whose work explores the tension between geometric structure and intuitive expression. Lori focuses on cityscape-based abstractions and responses to the contemporary world. The work is informed by her commute and LICs industrial geometry and abundant sky as seen from the elevated #7 train. Lori is interested in creating illusive motion or depth on a surface, without using traditional perspective: focusing on only one plane. She allows evidence of the fallible hand; visible evidence of the painting's history and the path of the brush over rough linen which helps the painting come alive and solidify its humble presence as a painting.