The Robin Rice Gallery is pleased to present Erica Hauser’s second painting exhibition, ‘No Ordinary Blue’, and her first at the gallery’s location in Hudson, NY. This new collection, all acrylic on canvas, employs her love for color and composition conceptually, as she interprets the play of patterns and shapes on a surface, with vibrant and earthy variations of blues side by side. In mixing shades from pale sky to dark navy, with a palette of cobalt, steel blue, ultramarine and soft white, she finds a sense of depth and calm within the formal parameters of ‘blue’. Titles are drawn from song lyrics, moods, nature, and pigments to further suggest the range of feelings and associations that the color holds.