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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