COLOR BAR // McColl Center For The Arts

Leah Rosenberg: Color Bar

McColl Center for Art + Innovation, Charlotte, NC
September 14–December 2, 2017

The San Francisco–based artist-baker Leah Rosenberg inaugurated McColl Center's project space with Color for the People, a site-specific exploration of color and taste.

Rosenberg’s process began with a daily routine of observing colors outdoors and capturing them with her camera. Each week, she selected a color from Charlotte’s landscape and applied it to the gallery walls and furniture to create an immersive color-field painting and meditative space. To deepen visitors’ sensory engagement with her project, Rosenberg collected seasonal and color specific ingredients to make a selection of small bites savory and sweet hosted a series of “Color Bar” events over the course of her residency: on selected Thursday evenings, she served cocktails and treats to match the color of the week, encouraging the public to reflect on the relationships between experiences of color, flavor, and eachother.

Color Bar was made possible, in part, by the generous support of students in the Culinary Arts and Baking & Pastry Arts programs at Central Piedmont Community College (CPCC).