James Howell - Painting / Malerei

Shades of grayAmerican painter James Howell found the subject of his art in the color gray. He explored the color-s sensual variety diligently over decades. In 2022, the Josef Albers Museum in Bottrop dedicated an exhibition to Howell presenting his work in the context of Albers- paintings. This catalogue documents this remarkable artistic encounter and explores Howell-s work in all its conceptual depth, transcending the seemlingly monothematic of the color gray. His paintings are meditations on the relationship between color and light, based on a refinement of painterly means that, despite their extreme reduction, allow for a paradoxical emphasis on expression.