Opera Gallery Miami Explores Eight Decades of Color in “In Dialogue With Color”
- camilarosiaz
- 3 days ago
- 2 min read
Opera Gallery Miami will present In Dialogue With Color: Mid-20th Century to Now from November 30, 2025, through January 5, 2026. The exhibition surveys how artists across eight decades have used color to shape narrative, perception, and meaning in both modern and contemporary art.
Organized by color groupings—Green, Blue, Red, Black and White, Pink, and Orange—the show spans intimate figurative works to monumental abstractions. The curatorial structure invites viewers to consider how artists deploy color to construct mood, symbolism, and spatial depth.
Works include Marc Chagall’s L’âne vert (1978), which uses deep blues to evoke mysticism; Keith Haring’s neon-orange Untitled (1984), capturing New York’s urban pulse; and Yayoi Kusama’s red-saturated Fire (1988), defined by its visual intensity. Feng Xiao-Min’s Composition No. 10.6.24 (2024) uses subtle pink tones to create a sense of calm.
Although created in 1887, Claude Monet’s Les Bords de l’Epte à Giverny appears in the exhibition to highlight Impressionism’s influence on 20th-century approaches to light and color, its palette dominated by greens that capture fleeting shifts in atmosphere.
The exhibition also considers dualities through black-and-white compositions. Pierre Soulages’ Peinture 202 x 143 cm (1967) demonstrates black’s ability to intensify reflected light, while Amoako Boafo’s Embrace (2023), showing two Black figures against a white ground, examines identity and cultural presence through portraiture.
According to Opera Gallery Miami Director Dan Benchetrit, the exhibition investigates how artists use color to communicate meaning, identity, and conceptual depth across varied media and subject matter. Together, the works reflect the enduring philosophical and expressive potential of color in global artistic practice.
The exhibition features artists including Karel Appel, Ron Arad, Pablo Atchugarry, Banksy, Georg Baselitz, Amoako Boafo, Mel Bochner, Fernando Botero, André Brasilier, Bernard Buffet, Alexander Calder, Marc Chagall, Cho Sung-Hee, Niki de Saint Phalle, Nicolas de Staël, Thomas Dillon, Feng Xiao-Min, Lucio Fontana, Sam Francis, Juan Genovés, Alfred Haberpointner, Keith Haring, Philippe Hiquily, Robert Indiana, Anish Kapoor, Alex Katz, Yves Klein, Willem de Kooning, Yayoi Kusama, Fernand Léger, Roy Lichtenstein, Marcello Lo Guidice, Tomokazu Matsuyama, Claude Monet, Pieter Obels, Julian Opie, Julien Rubat, Ed Ruscha, Richard Serra, Kazuo Shiraga, Pierre Soulages, Frank Stella, Manolo Valdés, Joana Vasconcelos, Andy Warhol, and Tom Wesselmann.
Opera Gallery will also participate in Art Miami, running December 2–7, 2025.