Skipstep (CD)

Macyn Bolt

2,000 GBP (£)

Date:2015

Art Form:Paintings

Medium:Acrylic on canvas

Dimensions:51 x 46 cm

Signature:Verso

Edition Notes:Unique artwork

Condition:Perfect. First hand item.

Status:Available For Sale

Provenance:From the artist’s studio

Citation:The gallerist and curator Harry Simon, owner of Simon Gallery in Morristown, New Jersey, wrote about Bolt’s work in 2016, saying: “These paintings represent the new visual foundation that Bolt has employed over the last three years which utilizes a symmetrically divided composition to posit open and closed forms, interlocking shapes and illusionary spaces. In doing so, he affirms the complex, often contradictory, nature of spatial comprehension.” Timothy Van Laar, artist, critic, author and curator of the “About Painting” exhibition Bolt’s work was included in at the Simone DeSousa Gallery, Detroit, MI in 2016 wrote about Macyn Bolt: “Macyn Bolt’s Shadow Boxer series investigates the qualities of reflection and mirroring that are unique to the space of abstract painting. These are paintings in which rigorous, reductive imagery shifts between flat and illusory. Anchored within the symmetry of two equal divisions, the crosscurrents of these spatial polarities ricochet off each other to create a subtle equilibrium.”

Link URL:http://www.ideelart.com/artists/941-macyn-bolt.html

Country:United States

Tags:abstract art,abstract painting,painting

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The skipstep and Shadow Boxer paintings grow out of an interest in the paradox of spatial comprehension found in abstract painting.

As with the shadow boxing practice in which the athlete spars with his or her own shadow, Bolt finds that the illusory qualities of abstract composition initiate a similar exercise of perception and expectation.

Using the geometric vocabulary found in architectural schemata, Bolt tries to create a dynamic tension between foreground and background, center and edge, inside and out. The dual spatial identities that the myriad forms have with one another create a visual riddle.

His goal as a painter is not to solve the riddle as much as pose it as a unique perceptual challenge. And it is that challenge that fulfills the experience one has with the painting.