In a career that spanned six decades, Jules Olitski (1922–2007) never lost his sense of playfulness, capturing both color and light in radiant, luminous canvases. Continually pushing the limits of painting, color, scale, and composition, Olitski invested abstraction with a powerful range of emotions.

“Painting is made from the inside out. I think of painting as possessed by a structure—i.e., shape and size, support and edge—but a structure born of the flow of color feeling. Color in color is felt at any and every place of the pictorial organization; in its immediacy—its particularity. Color must be felt throughout.”—Jules Olitski

For the April Artful Thursday, CORE Performance Company and artistic director Sue Schroeder—highly acclaimed for their choreography responding to the visual arts—present The Flow of Color, a new dance inspired by the exhibition REVELATION: Major Paintings by Jules Olitski.

CORE Performance Company is funded in part by grants from the City of Houston through the Houston Arts Alliance, the Pattillo Foundation, Texas Commission on the Arts, Houston Endowment, Inc., and AirTran Airways.

Admission is free and open to the public. A reception follows the program.

Promotional support for Artful Thursday is generously provided by KUHF 88.7 FM and KUHA 91.7 FM, Houston Public Radio.

Refreshments generously provided by the Starbucks located at Buffalo Speedway/Westpark and Rice Village.