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Wet Paint Connection to Re-Opened Walker Art Center Exposed!


PHOTO COURTESY WALKER ART CENTER

In April of this year the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis re-opened it’s doors to universal art world acclaim. Newly expanded to nearly double it’s previous size, the Walker now boasts a 385-seat theatre, new galleries and facilities for education programs, a new restaurant and, abstractly, a Wet Paint connection: several of the installations were produced using products from your favorite artists’ supply store! We thought it might be fun to highlight these materials so that the next time you visit the Walker you can see how world-renowned artists use them.

Flashe is a line of vinyl based color that thins with water, yet becomes completely water-resistant when dry. The unique qualities of Flashe are it’s intensely opaque paint film and it’s velvety matte finish. Flashe is also extremely flexible and lightfast, and its color does not shift as the paint film dries. The opacity and flatness of Flashe makes it a perfect choice for painting on the wall, as exemplified by Kara Walker’s wall painting in the Friedman Gallery at the Walker Art Center. Walker is known primarily for her large scale, narrative, cut paper installations depicting issues of race, gender and sexuality. The use of Flashe in the wall mural simulates the black cut paper with which Walker is often associated; flat, smooth and consistent.

Wet Paint stocks Flashe in 80ml jars, new 60ml tubes and larger sizes are available for special order. Go look at Kara Walker’s mural then come to Wet Paint and purchase Flashe!

You can buy Flashe right at this website!

Go to the Flashe Page by clicking here!

Before you leave the Walker, however, you should stop at the Gallery 8 Café, to enjoy both Wolfgang Puck’s delicious soups, salads and sandwiches and Sol LeWitt’s wall drawing executed with Lascaux acrylic paint. Lascaux Artists’ Acrylic is intensely pigmented, lightfast and resistant to aging. With 54 hues to choose from, Lascaux offers an acrylic paint with a body and texture similar to oil paint. It is particularly brilliant, with pure, strong colors that dry to a semi-matte surface. The color consistency is also an important feature of Lascaux Artists’ Acrylic. Mr. LeWitt develops the concept of his wall drawings in advance, specifying, amongst other things, exact color formulations. Installers certified by the artist, like builders working from an architect’s renderings, then execute the wall drawings. If the color has shifted by even a little bit the painting can be compromised, thus the critical nature of Lascaux acrylic’s consistency.

We think that you will enjoy all of the properties of Lascaux Artists’ Acrylic whether you paint on canvas at your studio or on the walls of the Walker Art Center.

You can buy Lascaux acrylic right at this website by clicking here!


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