Tom Bolles - Stripes
June 10 - July 24th, 2015
Andrea Schwartz Gallery is pleased to announce a solo exhibition for Tom Bolles, opening Wednesday, June 10, 2015.
For over 25 years, Tom Bolles has created minimalist works on canvas, that are chiefly identified as color field paintings. In this new body of work, which consists of his well known transparent acrylic paintings and also newly developed pigment prints, the artist has experimented with digital media more so than in his previous series.
These works have brought Tom back to his earlier influences from the 1960’s, mainly the “Op Art” or Optical Art movement. This style asks the viewer to confront an artwork that gives the impressions of movement, vibrating patterns, creating an optical illusion within the work. Though these pieces are not truly Op Art, they maintain varied yet uniform stripes with intense colors that are reminiscent of many mid-sixties paintings.
Tom still maintains his original technique of applying multiple translucent layers of acrylic in an attempt to create weight, depth, and a rich surface. Intermittently, for many of his new works, particularly the pigment prints, Tom has enjoyed utilizing the computer as a tool to develop an ideal composition. Within these two mediums, Tom has created a unified marriage between the technological and traditional approaches to art making.
(More of his works may be found on his portfolio page.)
June 10 - July 24th, 2015
Andrea Schwartz Gallery is pleased to announce a solo exhibition for Tom Bolles, opening Wednesday, June 10, 2015.
For over 25 years, Tom Bolles has created minimalist works on canvas, that are chiefly identified as color field paintings. In this new body of work, which consists of his well known transparent acrylic paintings and also newly developed pigment prints, the artist has experimented with digital media more so than in his previous series.
These works have brought Tom back to his earlier influences from the 1960’s, mainly the “Op Art” or Optical Art movement. This style asks the viewer to confront an artwork that gives the impressions of movement, vibrating patterns, creating an optical illusion within the work. Though these pieces are not truly Op Art, they maintain varied yet uniform stripes with intense colors that are reminiscent of many mid-sixties paintings.
Tom still maintains his original technique of applying multiple translucent layers of acrylic in an attempt to create weight, depth, and a rich surface. Intermittently, for many of his new works, particularly the pigment prints, Tom has enjoyed utilizing the computer as a tool to develop an ideal composition. Within these two mediums, Tom has created a unified marriage between the technological and traditional approaches to art making.
(More of his works may be found on his portfolio page.)
