Paul Pfeiffer, Red Green Blue (still), 2022, single channel video with surround sound, dimensions variable, running time: 31 minutes, 23 seconds. © Paul Pfeiffer. Courtesy Paula Cooper Gallery, New York.
The Joslyn, Omaha, Nebraska
October 11, 2025–April 26, 2026
Deploying an array of digital technologies, Paul Pfeiffer explores popular culture, including concerts, Hollywood films, and live sporting events. Red Green Blue stitches together audio and video recordings the artist made of the University of Georgia Redcoat Marching Band. Named for an image display system that responds to how the human eye perceives color, this immersive video installation layers sensory components to reproduce the experience of attending a college football game. Upending expectations, Pfeiffer shifts focus away from the competing teams to the student musicians, band conductors, and support staff who collaborate to execute such carefully-orchestrated performances.
Red Green Blue debuted at Paula Cooper Gallery in November 2022 and was included in his critically-acclaimed retrospective Prologue to the Story of the Birth of Freedom that traveled from the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles to the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao and the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago.