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On occasion, one observes a color so beautiful that it must be committed to memory, but what happens to its exact shade, dimension and luster as it is filed, to be recalled at a later date?

Liam Stevens and Sarah Kaye Rodden produce work that explores this elision of memory and color, time and tone – generating color not through observation but through the act of remembering. For Kaye Rodden, it is Whistler and Vermeer that are called upon, as are Piero Della Francesca and Morandi – artists whose treatment of tone is in equal parts subtle and sublime. For Stevens, it is André Derain and Monet …