Yellow

Few colors command attention as immediately as yellow. It evokes sunlight and harvest, celebration and caution, divinity and decay. Across centuries of painting, artists have embraced yellow, ochre, and gold not merely as descriptive hues, but as a visual language that shapes emotion, directs the eye, and transforms meaning.

The works in this exhibition reveal the remarkable range of yellow's expressive power. In Beauford Delaney's Abstraction No. 9, radiant yellows transcend form, creating a luminous field of color and light, while Mary Whyte's Shroud employs pale golden washes to convey the delicate weight and enveloping presence of a bolt of cloth. Together, these paintings demonstrate yellow's capacity to command attention through both brilliance and restraint.

Rather than tracing a single chronology or artistic movement, this exhibition invites visitors to consider how one color connects works created across different places, periods, and perspectives. Seen together, these paintings reveal yellow as more than just a pigment.