Exhibits & Events
RED All About It
EXTRA! EXTRA!! RED ALL ABOUT IT!!
Gallery Issues Open Call in the One Color That Refuses to Run on Page Six
By The Powell Lane Team
STOP THE PRESSES. The headline hue is back in circulation, and Powell Lane Arts wants the whole story. RED doesn't whisper — it shouts from the newsstand, the stop sign, the warning label, the bottom line. It's the only color you can be caught in (red-handed), tangled in (red tape), buried in (in the red), and honored by (the carpet rolled out just for you).
RED is never neutral — though it's neither hero nor villain. It's the color we read meaning into: love letters and warning labels, garnets and gunshots, the bridal veil and the brake light, the blush that gives us away and the temper that gives us away too. Passion, power, danger, debt, luck, life — sometimes all in a single breath.
It's the oldest story we've ever filed: red ochre on a cave wall, our species' first headline. And it's our own front-page news — blood, the pulse, the heartbeat that reports for duty whether we like it or not.
So: what's your scoop? We want every shade and every story RED can break — the palest blush-pink, the cheeriest cherry, the boldest cadmium, the deepest oxblood and crimson and earthen red. No single piece is expected to cover the whole beat. We're just dying to read how you report it.
