BEIGE PROVINCETOWN will continue Jay Critchley’s twenty-five year exploration of sand and the cosmological link between its beige color, light and the color spectrum, and the beige color of the universe. The use of sand began with the artist’s debut “sand car series” in Provincetown’s waterfront parking lot from 1981-1984 ? “Just Visiting for the Weekend” ? with sand-encrusted cars, sand-filled cars, sand-blasted cars, and the “sand family”. This ongoing exploration has guided him to the recent research which determined the color of the universe is beige, discovered by physicists Karl Glazebrook and Ivan Baldry of John’s Hopkins University.

Last year’s Beige installation at artSTRAND’s storefront space featured sand-filled gallery windows and an array of early 1980s sculptures, drawings and conceptual proposals. This year’s Beige Provincetown, which includes presentations and collaborations with artists and scientists, honors and celebrates the geological sand dune that is Provincetown, transcends the objecthood of art, and creates a multi-media, sensory experience between the grains of sand and the cosmic color, dust and mystery of the universe. The artist has created a “cosmo-geophysical” image for the exhibition, which also features interactive, throw-away flash cameras.

See images from Beige at Jay Critchley' artist's page at artSTRAND HERE