COLOR Screening

Saturday, February 8th 2025

2:00PM-4:30PM, Doors 1:30PM

Screening and Post-Screening Discussion

Presented in partnership with The National Gallery of Art

as part of their Celebrate Black Art & History on Screen series.

East Building Auditorium

4th Street and Constitution Avenue NW

Color explores many facets to the world’s abundant spectrum. Beginning by exploring what color means to visual artist Alteronce Gumby and how it influences his work, this new documentary highlights conversations with scholars, artists, and advocates from around the world, each offering a unique take on the role of color in their lives. It includes commentary by renowned color expert Jerome Lamaar, pigment specialist Michael Ambron, marine ecologist Catherine Kim, filmmaker Shondiin Mayo, and advocate Karima Bengara.

Join us on February 8th for a screening and post-screening discussion with artist Alteronce Gumby, Director John Campbell, and Kanitra Fletcher, Associate Curator of African American and Afro-Diasporic Art at the National Gallery of Art. This program is presented in partnership with National Gallery of Art. COLOR, written, directed, and produced by John Campbell, with Alteronce Gumby as Artist, Creator, and Producer, is now streaming on Black Experience on Xfinity and Xumo Play.

Born in Paddington, London England, John’s career first started in the music industry. With significant opportunities to work with some of music’s most prolific artists in the industry, including Whitney Houston, Elton John, George Michael, Boy George, Jon Secada, Zucchero, Nu Colors, Brand New Heavies, and Eurythmics, and contracts signed with Warner Bros. and A&M records. He went on, and moved his career into the financial industry, with 17 years of experience, working in many global divisions including Citi Private Bank, and then landing an opportunity as Chief of Staff for Citigroup’s Global Digital Strategy.

Utilizing management and creative skills, John left the financial industry and went on to become founder of JCINTIME, LLC, a creative management & production company with significant productions including directing and writing the new 2023 docu-series Who’s Behind Black Art - a groundbreaking story of five emerging Black Artists from GOOD BLACK ART with many of the artworld’s celebrity guests, also, John directed and wrote the new documentary feature COLOR, traveling to many countries around the world with renowned multi-disciplinary artist Alteronce Gumby, exploring the concept of COLOR. Additional projects include the 2022 film ‘5150’, where John Campbell is co-executive producer along with Critic’s Choice and SAG Award winning actor & executive producer David Oyelowo, directed by Denzel Whitaker, and stars Jovan Adepo. John is lead producer on the FIPRESCI Award winning 2022 feature film ‘The Sleeping Negro’. John is also producer on award winning films and upcoming television dramas and documentary releases including the recent feature film, ‘A Boy, A Girl, A Dream’ on Amazon Prime Video, and producer of 6 time Film Festival Award winning feature ‘Destined’. John Campbell is writer and executive producer of HBO Max and 5 time film festival award winning documentary ‘The Infamous Future’ highlighting the prolific and inspiring Eagle Academy Black and Brown boys, the Eagle Academy Foundation and its educators including the Chancellor for the Department of Education Mr. David C. Banks. also starring the Mayor of New York City Eric L Adams. John was the producer of the 2018 March on Washington Film Festival in Washington, D.C.

Alteronce Gumby is an artist and local of New York City. His artistic practice includes painting, ceramics, installation, performance, and film.

Alteronce’s work has been exhibited at galleries such as Nicola Vassell Gallery, Hauser & Wirth, Gladstone Gallery and Camden Arts Centre. His work was exhibited in his first museum solo show titled Dark Matter at Allentown Art Museum. In his recent solo exhibition, The Color of Everything at Nicola Vassell, lessons from Monet’s Water Lilies and NASA’s James Webb telescope commingle meaningfully. Through Gumby’s fluorescent and chromatic spectrum of iridescent color, the artist engages the viewer and expands the notions through which we perceive form and color, the subjectivity of identity and the materiality of earth and cosmic space. Alteronce is currently in production for his first documentary feature, COLOR exploring the many facets to its abundant spectrum experienced around the world.

Gumby graduated from the Yale School of Art with an MFA in Painting and Printmaking in 2016. He has won notable awards such as the Austrian American Foundation/ Seebacher Prize for Fine Arts and the Robert Reed Memorial Scholarship. Gumby has also participated in numerous international artist residencies such as the Rauschenberg Residency (2019), London Summer Intensive (2016), Summer Academy in Salzburg, Austria (2015), 6Base (2016), and as the 2016 recipient of the Harriet Hale Woolley Scholarship at the Fondation des Étas-Unis in Paris.