Leah Rosenberg: Color for the People

Color for the People is a site-specific exploration of color and taste. Rosenberg's process begins with a daily routine of observing colors outdoors and capturing them with her smartphone camera. Each week, she selects a color from Charlotte's landscape and applies it to the gallery walls and furniture to create an immersive color-field painting and meditative space. To deepen visitors' sensory engagement with her project, Roseberg hosts a series of "Color Bar" events over the course of her residency: on selected Thursday evenings, she serves cocktails and treats to match the color of the week, encouraging the public to reflect on the relationships between experiences of color, flavor, and people. Amid growing social tensions and extreme xenophobia, Color for the People intends to create space for remembering the vital roles that art and food continue to play in fostering shared experiences of pleasure and joy, which are, as the artist says, “medicine for times like these.” Color for the People was exhibited at McColl Center from September 14 to December 2, 2017.