March 14, 2024 Image Ta-coumba T. Aiken '74 is exhibiting his prismatic paintings in The Way I See at the Duluth Art Institute. Aiken is a fully color-blind painter who translates his visual experience through art. Aiken’s paintings emerge from what he calls “spirit writing”—an intuitive, freeform paint application that creates repetitive lines and abstract shapes in purely black and white. Aiken then uses color reductively as guided by the labels on his paint tubes to discard certain aspects, sometimes utilizing tape to aid in the emergence of additional patterns. Aiken is a 2022 Guggenheim Fellow. He is also donating a piece to the Minneapolis College of Art and Design Auction in May that funds student scholarships. The Way I See On Display in the Morrison Gallery at the Duluth Art Institute (Duluth, MN) January 9, 2024–April 8, 2024 Learn More Ta-coumba T. Aiken | The Way I See (duluthartinstitute.org) Explore more about Ta-Coumba Aiken