Douglas Teiger - Deconstructing Color: An Invitation to Experience the Energy of Art.

When you step into a gallery, the first thing you see is color—but what if you could feel it?What if each hue carried a vibration you could sense in your body, a resonance that lifted your spirit the way a favorite song can lift your mood?

That’s the experience I hope to share with you at my upcoming exhibition, Deconstructing Color, at the Ojai Valley Museum.

This series began with a single, luminous oil painting—four feet by nine feet—created in a meditative, intentional flow. Then came the act of transformation: taking a knife to the canvas, cutting it into strips, shards, and shapes. Each fragment, already infused with quiet energy, became part of a new visual language when repositioned against and alongside others.

These reassembled pieces live on purpose-built wood panels, where colors tilt, overlap, and hover in playful, unexpected ways. Warm cadmiums lean into cool ultramarines; velvety umbers meet sparks of zinc white. The negative space between them becomes as important as the pigment itself—a breath, a pause, a moment of stillness in the dance.

The result is not simply collage, nor purely painting. It is an expanded field—a living conversation of color that shifts as you move around it. Stand close, and you’ll feel the hum of the pigments. Step back, and new harmonies emerge. Every piece is an invitation to be present, to let the colors speak directly to your senses.

Deconstructing Color is about more than what you see on the wall. It’s about what happens inside you as you experience it—the subtle, joyful uplift that comes when art resonates not just with your eyes, but with your whole being.

I would be honored for you to join me at the Ojai Valley Museum (OVM) and see this work in person.Because when we allow ourselves to truly receive art, it can do more than transform a space—it can transform us. 

OVM opening Friday, August 15^th, 5-6:30 PM. Show running through Oct