Kaffe Fassett and his niece Erin Lee Gafill have a new exhibit on display at the Monterey Museum of Art capturing their weekends working together in Big Sur and "pulls back the veil, revealing the inspiration, craft, and environment that bring new artworks into being." (Photo: Monterey Museum of Art)

From Monterey Museum of Art:

"In a redwood canyon down the Big Sur coast sits a small cabin. Each spring artists Kaffe Fassett and his niece Erin Lee Gafill share a stolen week sitting side by side at their easels to paint. During these stolen weeks, they share a decade long visual conversation that began long ago in their family home at Nepenthe. Fassett is known as a textile designer, Gafill as a landscape painter. The two share a common language in paint, and a passion for color.

Color Duets invites us behind the scenes of two artists’ vision, process, and influences. It pulls back the veil, revealing the inspiration, craft, and environment that bring new artworks into being. There are more than just two voices here. One sees echoes of Giorgio Morandi, a favorite of both artists, with his obsessive repetition of subjects and soulful chromatic grays, the color-drenched influence of Emile Nolde and his flower portraits, and the delight of color, bold pattern, and the home celebrated by Matisse."

The exhibiti will be on display at the Monterey Museum of Art from Thursday, May 13, 2021 through Sunday, October 9, 2021.

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