The color studies are an ongoing series of material examinations born out of a long-term engagment with risograph printing and photogrpahy.
Each of the prints is a collaboration between artist and printer. Rather than treating color as a fixed value, these works approach it as a relationship. The prints foreground the expressive and often unpredictable qualities of RISO and are simultaneously research and as artwork: they document how color behaves while demonstrating what color could do if freed from the constraints of photographic fidelity and the limitations of process color systems such as CMYK and RGB.
Together, these prints form an expanding archive of material color to support the future publication of the [color/shift] book.
in BISQUE - SKY BLUE - EMERALD - COPPER risograph ink on French Paper Co. Construction Whitewash
[05] Ina Jang
in ORCHID - LIGHT LIME - MIDNIGHT - PUMPKIN risograph ink on French Paper Co. Speckletone Starch White
[18] Travis Shaffer
in LIGHT TEAL - RASPBERRY risograph ink on French Paper Co. Speckletone True White
[15] Anastasia Sierra
in LIGHT TEAL - COPPER - HD BLACK risograph ink on French Paper Co. Pop-Tone Whip Cream
in SKY BLUE - COPPER risograph ink on French Paper Co. Pop-Tone Whip Cream
[17] Jeremy August Haik
in MIDNIGHT - SCARLET risograph ink on French Paper Co. Construction Grout Gray
[12] Brea Souders
in SKY BLUE - CORAL - SUNFLOWER - MIDNIGHT risograph ink on French Paper Co. Construction Whitewash
[09] Nicole White
in Mint - Copper - Emerald risograph ink on French Paper Co. Pop-tone Whip Cream
[14] Jaclyn Wright
in AQUA - PUMPKIN - STEEL risograph ink on French Paper Co. Pop-Tone Sweet Tooth