Anne Labovitz: The Language of Color

Speaking of bigger, I'm always curious, like from thought to execution.

So walk me through how you create.

When something comes in your mind, how does it come from your mind and then on to a canvas?

So the idea for me is the first thing.

So not necessarily the visual thing, but the conceptual idea.

So if it's a I wanna give a good example that I can articulate.

I have a good example.

So I saw a thing where my work was translucent and I could see that the light changed when it went through the artwork.

So at Concordia College, I had an exhibition and I literally, there was this much light coming through one of my works and it changed because one side was pink, one side was blue, I was inside, the sun came through this one little spot and it turned purple.

literally started freaking out.

So I thought, okay, that is transformational.

It's about, it's a kind of visual representation of optimism and of light coming through darkness.

And so it took me two years of failure to figure out how to make the thing I could imagine.

I wanted to do something that was very large scale that had light coming from underneath it, but I'd never worked with light.

So I didn't know how to do that.

So I iterated and iterated and finally came onto a custom-made plexiglass vitrine, adhering the painted material on to the box, and then doing these big panels with like 150 LED lights behind them.

And then they're just magical.

And then they become this visual representation of optimism.

However, there was an awful lot of failure in there.

There's just, I am always, and I don't settle for less.

Like if I see and know I can do a thing, I'm going to keep fighting for that thing until it gets fully realized.

Right now I'm working with fabric and I can't quite find the fabric I want.

I saw it a year ago and I'm on my eighth iteration of it and I still don't quite have what I want because I can't quite source exactly what it is.

I can see how amazing it's going to be.

So sometimes I see a thing and then I have to build backwards from it and it might take a year or two or four.

Speaking of bigger, I'm always curious, like from thought to execution.

So walk me through how you create.

When something comes in your mind, how does it come from your mind and then on to a canvas?

So the idea for me is the first thing.

So not necessarily the visual thing, but the conceptual idea.

So if it's a I wanna give a good example that I can articulate.

I have a good example.

So I saw a thing where my work was translucent and I could see that the light changed when it went through the artwork.

So at Concordia College, I had an exhibition and I literally, there was this much light coming through one of my works and it changed because one side was pink, one side was blue, I was inside, the sun came through this one little spot and it turned purple.

literally started freaking out.

So I thought, okay, that is transformational.

It's about, it's a kind of visual representation of optimism and of light coming through darkness.

And so it took me two years of failure to figure out how to make the thing I could imagine.

I wanted to do something that was very large scale that had light coming from underneath it, but I'd never worked with light.

So I didn't know how to do that.

So I iterated and iterated and finally came onto a custom-made plexiglass vitrine, adhering the painted material on to the box, and then doing these big panels with like 150 LED lights behind them.

And then they're just magical.

And then they become this visual representation of optimism.

However, there was an awful lot of failure in there.

There's just, I am always, and I don't settle for less.

Like if I see and know I can do a thing, I'm going to keep fighting for that thing until it gets fully realized.

Right now I'm working with fabric and I can't quite find the fabric I want.

I saw it a year ago and I'm on my eighth iteration of it and I still don't quite have what I want because I can't quite source exactly what it is.

I can see how amazing it's going to be.

So sometimes I see a thing and then I have to build backwards from it and it might take a year or two or four.