The Pit is delighted to present Water Paintings a solo exhibition of paintings by New York-based artist James Ulmer. In Interaction of Color (1963) Josef Albers compares our reading of color to our reading of text. We do not isolate individual letters in our reading of words, phrases, and sentences, we take in a gestalt image made up of the interrelationship between them. Color, likewise, isn’t read so much as perception of individual colors but their interaction. “Colors present themselves in continuous flux, constantly related to changing neighbors and changing conditions.” Albers uses the word contexture to describe this entangled mass of information, a word which is also used to describe the linear process of threading words together to express ideas.…