COLOR: Willamette Week

Color
Visual Arts
JENNIFER RABIN

PDX Contemporary Art
925 NW Flanders St.

No exhibition can better be described by the phrase “you had to be there.” PDX Contemporary [sic] invited six artists to explore color, and it is impossible to appreciate the results without seeing it for yourself. No amount of pouring over the images on the gallery’s website will give you any indication of what it feels like to stand in front of Peter Gronquist’s green-blue color field, wondering how he manipulated light and space. Or how the subtle tones in Anne Appleby’s oil and wax diptych make you feel like you might get sucked into the wall. Sometimes, abstract canvases covered in pigment can elicit loud and disinterested eye rolls from passersby. This is not one of those times. JENNIFER RABIN. PDX Contemporary [sic], 925 NW Flanders St., 222-0063. Through Jan. 9.