Spinning The Color Wheel

Two shows currently on view in Litchfield County, Conn., take their prismatic canvases to the opposite sides of the rainbow's end. At Furnace Art on Paper Archive in Falls Village, Conn., Jennifer Riley's series "Arches and Arrows" gravitates to mechanical imagery — assembly lines of magic marker-colored patterns, domed acorn nuts whizzing by, the holes in a rivet spacer expanding, the inner world of a blinking circuit board. At Standard Space in Sharon, Conn., Louise Sheldon conjures ghosts from behind the yellow wallpaper in "Daisy Dew Diamond," part Victor Moscoso's psychedelic rock posters, part Takashi Murakami's super flat postmodern "Happy Flowers." Eyes, teeth, and glossy lips peak through a dizzying kaleidoscope of wild daisies and butterflies shaken in a souvenir snow globe. In Sheldon's "Slanque," look close within the falling florals to find the petal's disc where a rude face smiles back like Georges Méliès's man in the moon.

"Arches and Arrows" is on view through July 9, "Daisy Dew Diamond" is on view through June 25.

Slanque by Louise Sheldon Photo by Alexander Wilburn

Slanque by Louise Sheldon Photo by Alexander Wilburn

Slanque by Louise Sheldon Photo by Alexander Wilburn

Slanque by Louise Sheldon Photo by Alexander Wilburn

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