The Color of Memory opens August 25, 2021 at TAG Gallery, 5458 Wilshire Blvd, Los Angeles, CA 90036. TAG is open 1pm-7pm, Wed-Sun
The old woman paints a cone-shaped green mountain onto heavy white paper…. Her brush wavers as she streaks thinned cerulean blue across the remaining white expanse.
The young teacher approaches her: “a lovely picture,” she says.
“My hand used to be so steady,” the old woman laments, thinking of the fine calligraphic strokes that once had been hers.
“Look,” the teacher says,” the white you’ve left visible is like a bank of clouds sailing across the blue sky.”
“I don’t remember how the sky behind the mountain really appeared,” the old woman says.
“Maybe your hand has remembered for you,” the teacher says.
“The Color of Memory” reveals what artist Shirley Asano Guldimann’s hand remembers. (Passage from Guldimann’s published short story “Kioku.”)
About the Artist: Shirley Asano Guldimann is a Southern California artist, whose works emerge as visual poetry. Her figurative art, painted with water-based mediums, evokes what is fleeting and elusive about her subjects, and reflects her Japanese-inflected aesthetic.
About the Gallery: TAG is a fine art gallery located on Museum Row in Los Angeles, California. Founded in 1993, the gallery represents award-winning contemporary Southern California artists working in all mediums and styles.