Who’s Afraid of Red, Yellow, and Blue? is an installation that examines the ambivalent relationship I have with colour by creating an environment for the blending of primary colours through chance. A “cleaning” cycle is staged for the digestion and recreation of colour using sand and robot vacuum cleaners.

Barnett Newman’s paintings bearing the same title as my exhibition challenged the purist ideology that Piet Mondrian had assigned to the primary colours, returning them to their expressive role as colours. Newman’s challenge and my response create the framework around which this installation is built.

Tyler Hodgins lives with his family in Victoria, BC. He has exhibited widely, and his work appears in public and private collections in Canada and the United States. Hodgins works primarily in sculpture, focusing on themes of home, language, repetition, reproduction, and chance.