WHERE ART INSPIRES CONNECTION
Coloring Perception
featuring works by
Alexis Arnold
Cécilia Lusven
November 1 - December 21, 2025
TINT is pleased to announce Coloring Perception, featuring works by Alexis Arnold and Cécilia Lusven.
Pattern, repetition, material, and color are central elements to both artists’ works. Arnold uses these elements to play with perception. She transforms a variety of analog materials and processes to create stationary works that appear kinetic, three dimensional, or even digital. Lusven uses color and repetition to explore both internal and external landscapes, encouraging reflection on our interactions with both our environment and one another. Both artists seduce the viewer into questioning what they are looking at and how the artwork is made.
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Arnold’s mixed media two-dimensional, sculpture, and installation artwork explore the subjective perception and experience of color, pattern, light, space, time, and material. She provides optical experiences for viewers to inspire them to think about visual perception, the physics of light and color, and the optical effects found in daily life. The changing perceptions also prompt interactions and dialogue between viewers. Arnold is interested in transforming the recognizable, recontextualizing the commonplace, and highlighting the possibilities of the material, techniques, and processes she uses in her work.
Through her work, Lusven aims to illuminate the dedication and intricacy that lies at the heart of weaving. Each piece is a testament to the laborious process, where every hand-cut fringe is meticulously inserted, one by one, revealing the journey of each thread – coiled, warped, beamed, threaded, tensed, and finally woven.
Lusven uses discarded materials or scraps of leather in her weavings. These materials are transformed through her hands as she hand-cuts then handweaves them with dead stock linen threads from shoemaking or bookbinding. Lusven’s process is not just about reclaiming materials; it’s about revealing the inherent beauty and value in them. Lusven uses color and repetition to draw the viewer into a world of revery and contemplation.
Arnold’s recent series include patterned paper pulp paintings, moiré mesh works, marbled prints made with mesh fabric, cyanotypes, and crystallized books. Her work often references Op Art and Light and Space movements and uses pattern, grids, and color theory to explore perception across several media. Arnold’s works are further connected through undulating and optically vibrating patterns made of repeated and altered surface marks, shapes, and textures to add additional elements of visual and material perception.
