Seeking Color
Coming Soon:
Seeking Color
The practice of Seeking Color is one that prioritizes intuition over analysis; a peripheral blur over direct clarity; it’s about nurturing an awareness of the color networks that are all around us,
flowing in and out of one another. Seeking Color is also an approach to engaging with this ever-present force in the world—one that is reverent, responsive, and curious. Seeking Color erodes notions of genre and classification, replacing them with hypersensory experience. A practice might emerge out of the following actions: move in the direction of colors as they call, catching currents and riding on the relational
pathways between colorful phenomena.
Coming Soon
The practice of Seeking Color is one that prioritizes intuition over analysis; a peripheral blur over direct clarity; it’s about nurturing an awareness of the color networks that are all around us, flowing in and out of one another. Seeking Color is also an approach to engaging with this ever-present force in the world—one that is reverent, responsive, and curious. Seeking Color erodes notions of genre and classification, replacing them with hyper-sensory experience. A practice might emerge out of the following actions: move in the direction of colors as they call, catching currents and riding on the relational pathways between colorful phenomena.
A Prelude to This Studio is Alive! 22 Elements of a Living Studio
Soundscape of a Living Studio
This is how the studio speaks, listens, and learns. Seasonal studio soundscapes for the first two Gallery Night Happenings:
THIS STUDIO IS ALIVE!
JEFF ZIMPEL | HOLDEN SHERER | SAM KACALA |
EFRAT | ETHAN SORGE | HE WHO SEES | THE LIVING STUDIO
RECORDED AT SAINT KATE - THE ARTS HOTEL, MKE
FALL GALLERY NIGHT | 2022
THIS STUDIO IS DREAMING
JEFF ZIMPEL | HOLDEN SHERER | EFRAT | COE DOUGLAS |
SAM KACALA | ETHAN SORGE | MARK SORIANO | THE LIVING STUDIO
RECORDED AT SAINT KATE - THE ARTS HOTEL, MKE
WINTER GALLERY NIGHT | 2023
This is how the studio speaks, listens, and learns. Seasonal studio soundscapes for the first two Gallery Night Happenings:
THIS STUDIO IS ALIVE!
JEFF ZIMPEL | HOLDEN SHERER | SAM KACALA | EFRAT | ETHAN SORGE | HE WHO SEES | THE LIVING STUDIO
RECORDED AT SAINT KATE - THE ARTS HOTEL, MKE, Wisconsin
FALL GALLERY NIGHT | 2022
THIS STUDIO IS DREAMING
JEFF ZIMPEL | HOLDEN SHERER | EFRAT | COE DOUGLAS | SAM KACALA | ETHAN SORGE | MARK SORIANO | THE LIVING STUDIO
RECORDED AT SAINT KATE - THE ARTS HOTEL, MKE, Wisconsin
WINTER GALLERY NIGHT | 2023
A Soundscape of a Living Studio
A Soundscape of a Living Studio
An artist residency on vinyl. Currently pressing the records - more to come (hopefully) sooner rather than later - then again, we’re running on artist time.
B&W Images by Ethan Sorge
An artist residency on vinyl. Currently pressing the records - more to come (hopefully) sooner rather than later - then again, we’re running on artist time.
KASE + R.A.T.M.A.N
KASE + R.A.T.M.A.N
We invite you to join us for a one of a kind evening of musical improvisation, art and performance at The Ivy House on Sat Feb 17 2024!
Guests will be immersed in a fusion of musical experimentation as KASE's lo-fi Jazz inspired soundscapes blend seamlessly with R.A.T.M.A.N.'s experimental beats. The night will feature guest appearances from KASE founding member knowsthetime, as well as guests Jane Han with Ted King-Smith and Maaly Napoleon. The Ivy House will be transformed by multi-disciplinary artist Jeff Zimpel to create a truly immersive experience.
We invite you to join us for a one of a kind evening of musical improvisation, art and performance at The Ivy House on Sat Feb 17 2024!
Guests will be immersed in a fusion of musical experimentation as KASE's lo-fi Jazz inspired soundscapes blend seamlessly with R.A.T.M.A.N.'s experimental beats. The night will feature guest appearances from KASE founding member knowsthetime, as well as guests Jane Han with Ted King-Smith and Maaly Napoleon. The Ivy House will be transformed by multi-disciplinary artist Jeff Zimpel to create a truly immersive experience.
2023 collaboration installation at Saint Kate - The Arts Hotel. KASE with Father Sky & Tiffany Miller within the ARC Theatre.
THIS STUDIO IS ALIVE
THIS STUDIO IS ALIVE
Currently working on a book - mapping the elements that make artist workspaces feel especially alive. This Studio is Alive explores these so-called elements, Inklings of these ideas came about during the writing of my graduate thesis, but most have become clearer in my post MFA journey. Elements span my 3-month Ecology of Marks residency at Arts@Large, my yearlong ARTServancy residency at Forest Beach Migratory Preserve - Forest Beach is a Living Studio, and my yearlong residency at Saint Kate - The Arts Hotel, Studio Ecology.
Compositions of Collaboration (below) are a few small fragments - it’s the step I’m on in this process. At this point, I’m mostly combing through the writings, documented images, sound, and video, to gather and layout the visual presence of each of the elements. It’s compositions all the way down.
Ethan Sorge (“To See and Be Shown”) was the Studio Ecology photographer throughout my yearlong residency at Saint Kate - The Arts Hotel.
My friend and wizard brother, Coe Douglas, has been a trusted collaborator on this creative odyssey - this art-life performance. This is Coe in front of our Sigil Wall collaboration: We - the creative spirits, conjure this Ecology of Marks.
