The orange and yellow leaves framed against a bright blue sky had good company on October 25 as Art Mob members arrived at the Charles Biederman-designed home of Chuck and Carol Thiss in Greenwood, Minnesota. Decked in primary colors, the home was the setting for the latest Weisman event for members of the Art Mob, a membership category that offers bi-monthly behind the scenes access to art and artists in our community.

One member, smiling ear to ear, described the experience as “being miniaturized, shrunken� enough to literally walk through one of Biederman’s signature wall sculptures of red, blue and yellow planes he created over the course of 40 years at his isolated farm in Red Wing, Minnesota.

The informal Saturday morning gathering featured a tour of the home and a discussion of the work of the artist led by museum director Lyndel King, who came to know the artist over the course of a couple of decades before he died in 2004.

The 2,000-square-foot house is organized around one large red-floored great room at the center and small bedrooms, a gallery kitchen, and bathrooms anchoring each corner. Every surface is a plane of blue, red, or yellow.

Standing in the great room, participants asked what it was like to live in such a colorful construction with two young children. Chuck Thiss, an architect , happily described it as “a small house with small bedrooms, but there’s this big open space where our kids can run. It makes us smile.�

Judging from the crowd gathered on the room’s bright red sofas, he’s right.