Liz Goldner reviews Marcia Hafif: From the Inventory recently on view at the Laguna Art Museum.

Goldner writes: "By studying, 'the colors of the sea, the sky and the sand, the seashells and seaweed, the dark clouds over the horizon in the evening,' Hafif says, she made these vibrant paintings using colors as Indian yellow, green earth, rose and ultramarine blue, and muted shades of indigo, silver and violet grey. Joan Waltemath explains in the catalogue, 'The pure sensation of light that bounces off the surface of each of her canvases seems to indicate colors so precisely calibrated that each emits a single frequency of light.' As [curator Mike] McGee observes, 'We experience her colors on a tactile, physiological and even feeling level.'"