2014
Ellen Hackl Fagan builds connections between color and sound using installations, interactive games, and collaborative projects that combine color-and-texture saturated paintings with music and digital technologies. Each installation invites viewers an opportunity to explore synaesthesia for themselves.
Balanced between randomness and intention, like jazz music, Fagan’s art continues to reveal limitless possibilities for improvisation. Saturation, accident, and the nature of the materials impose their own voice. Color seduces.
Blue is an invitation to get reckless.
Rich, powdery, dangerous, The Void.
Jumping off generates new information. Painting opens the door to life’s patterns. Echoing life’s chaotic beauty, her sources can be linked to pop music, Rimbault, Jungian psychology, the theory of correspondences, Minimalist and decorative art.
Fagan is the inventor of the Reverse Color Organ and the ColorSoundGrammar Game, two projects that enable viewers to interact aurally with color. In collaboration with web architect Joshie Fishbein, the Reverse Color Organ is a web app, downloadable to a smartphone, thus placing this synaesthetic tool into peoples’ hands to be used, not only to expand the language of color, but also as a crowd-sourced musical instrument.
Fagan exhibits her work extensively throughout New England and New York City. In 2014 she expanded her independent curatorial practice into a full-time business and is now the owner of ODETTA Gallery in Bushwick, Brooklyn. There, she maintains her painting studio and is an active member of this vibrant arts community.
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(Biography provided by ODETTA Gallery)
Ellen Hackl Fagan, Molecules of Music_Aqua, 2014, Ink, Rag Paper
By Ellen Hackl Fagan
Located in Darien, CT
Interdisciplinary abstract painter Ellen Hackl Fagan's focus is on developing a corresponding language between color and sound . MoleculesofMusic encompasses the development of an ...
Ink, Rag Paper
Ellen Hackl Fagan, Arc, 2006, Enamel, Ink, Acrylic
By Ellen Hackl Fagan
Located in Darien, CT
Ellen Hackl Fagan is an interdisciplinary abstract painter who uses synaesthesia, digital media and interactive performance as tools for developing a corresponding language between color and sound in her work. Focused in on the core concept in her abstract work, Fagan began creating a small series of works titled ColorSoundGrammar. This series explores the nature of printmaking processes, texture and surface using everyday materials as stamping elements. Ellen Hackl Fagan is the inventor of The Reverse Color...
Acrylic Polymer, Ink, Acrylic
Daniel Hill, Untitled-7, 2015, acrylic, 11 x 15 inches
By Daniel Hill
Located in Darien, CT
Daniel Hill’s work is an exploration between vision and sound and the power of this connection to generate compelling visual environments. The inquiry of this integration has also sa...
Acrylic, Board
Daniel Hill, Untitled-3 2015, acrylic, 22 x 30 inches
By Daniel Hill
Located in Darien, CT
Daniel Hill’s work is an exploration between vision and sound and the power of this connection to generate compelling visual environments. The inquiry of this integration has also sa...
Acrylic, Board
Patricia Fabricant, 120421 2021, Gouache and Flashe On Panel, 14 x 11 inches
By Patricia Fabricant
Located in Darien, CT
Patricia Fabricant is a painter curator, and award-winning book designer, born in New York City. She received her BA from Wesleyan University and studied painting in Florence Italy. Her abstract and figurative paintings have been exhibited widely at such galleries as ODETTA, M David & Co, Front Room, SFA Projects, Equity Gallery, Morgan Lehman, the Painting Center, and 490 Atlantic. Her curatorial practice includes three editions of the benefit group show, Among Friends, Studio Mates at Front Room Gallery, and With the Grain, at Equity Gallery. She lives and works in Brooklyn, NY. Patricia Fabricant has a deep and abiding interest in process-driven work, from mandalas and yantras to Aboriginal song-line paintings, Islamic tiles...
Gouache, Panel, Acrylic
Ellen Hackl Fagan, ColorSoundGrammar_ASOG, 2010, Enamel, Latex, Ink, Graphite
By Ellen Hackl Fagan
Located in Darien, CT
Inviting the accidental while painting, the artist's materials continue to reveal limitless possibilities for improvisation, like jazz music. Influenced by scientific theories-both real and imagined, kitsch, music, decorative art and indigenous textiles, Fagan's abstract paintings and interactive performance build connections between color and surface to sound. This exploration has led to creating a series of interactive games with viewers, the most recent being The Alphabet Game. To play, viewers select, from colored squares, the color(s) that best represent each note in the familiar ABC Song melody. Through these playful interventions their thoughts about color and music are explored in-depth. Documenting their responses in the form of photographs and notes in journals, Fagan has compiled the results of fifteen artists who played the Alphabet Game during a lecture on color where the artist was the guest presenter in order to create this particular painting. Fagan distilled the data gathered and painted this visualization of a color/sound alphabet based on the colors selected by this artist's group. These alphabet paintings introduce a wonderful completion to this pseudo-scientific investigation and celebrate painting...
Enamel
Organic Geometry (El Buey I) (Abstract Painting)
By Michael Barringer
Located in London, GB
Organic Geometry (El Buey I) (Abstract Painting) Mixed media on paper - Unframed Artwork exclusive to IdeelArt. In this series, Michael Barringer wants to make deeply felt, poeti...
Paper, Mixed Media
That Also Hits the Spot - Abstract Geometric Acrylic Painting
By Michelle Feinberg
Located in Boston, MA
That Also Hits the Spot 30.0 x 30.0 x 1.5, 3.0 lbs Acrylic Painting Hand signed by artist Artist's Commentary: "Despite the chaos beneath, playful colors and measured circles can...
Acrylic
PDNH D QHZ UHDOLWB (cryptography series)
By Thomas Paul Raggio
Located in New York, NY
Abstract. Vibrant. Painting. About the Artist: "I contemplate every color, mark, and placement of the line to formulate what I call rhythmic velocities: relationships of color and motion that give life to the composition, creating a heartbeat. I am interested in the duality of math and design: through repetition, a line made of color becomes a rhythmic pattern. This concept is found when composing music, organic landscapes and architectural structures. By referencing these sources, my abstractions transcend their formal components, reaching beyond a minimalist canon. My work is composed of hard edges and thin lines set against an abstract field or a pictorial space. Each color has a quickness that is relative to the colors surrounding it; this gives my paintings visual movement and dislocates the viewer. Through linear and geometric forms, my paintings explore design and mathematical concepts found broadly throughout culture. They are improvised from a wide range of sources such as my conversations with scholars in various fields of music, architecture and engineering, my life experiences and travels." Thomas Paul Raggio...
Canvas, Acrylic
Beginnings - Abstract Geometric Acrylic Painting
By Glenn Fischer
Located in Boston, MA
Beginnings 36.0 x 36.0 x 2.0, 3.0 lbs Acrylic Hand signed by artist Artist's Commentary: "Glenn Fischer is an abstract artist working in collage and painting to create geometric-...
Acrylic
Alignment, Painting, Acrylic on Canvas
By Hilary Winfield
Located in Yardley, PA
Alignment is an original painting, created with acrylic paint on gallery-wrapped canvas. It has a width of 36 inches and a height of 24 inches with a depth of 1 inches (24x36x1). ...
Acrylic
Untitled 4. From Ritmos abstractos (Abstract Rhythms) Series
By Juan Carlos Amador 1
Located in Miami Beach, FL
"Ritmos Abstratos" invites us to explore the visual universe of the artist Juan Carlos Amador, who, through his unique perspective, translates the pulsations of space and the invisi...
Canvas, Spray Paint, Acrylic
