Macyn Bolt
American, b. 1954
Macyn Bolt is an American abstract painter. Using a visual language informed by geometric abstraction, he creates artworks that examine how color and form create shifts in visual perception. He lives and works in Brooklyn, NY, and upstate Pennsylvania. Bolt graduated with a BFA in 1979 from Calvin College, in Grand Rapids, MI, and earned his Masters of Fine Arts from Syracuse University in 1981. Macyn Bolt has exhibited in multiple solo and group exhibitions throughout the United States. Work by Macyn Bolt is included in many corporate and institutional collections, including those of the Newark Museum, Grand Rapids Art Museum, the Blanton Museum of Art, the Boca Raton Museum of Art, Progressive Companies, the Janet Turner Print Museum, Deutsche Bank, JPMorgan Chase, and TIAA-CREF. Bolt works with acrylic paint on a variety of surfaces including canvas, wood panel, vinyl and paper. Using scrapers and palette knives, he builds up layers of paint, creating surfaces that seem both polished and hand made. He often strives to achieve heightened areas of contrast, exploring relationships between the painterly and the flat, the loose and the opaque. That contrast is further explored in relationships between colors. His process mirrors the balance he seeks between boldness and delicacy in his compositions. Scale is also an important aspect of his work. His smaller works, which start around 16 x 15 inches, create opportunities for intimate viewer interactions. His larger works, which can range up to 84 x 180 inches, encompass viewers in a contemplative aesthetic space. The differences in size result in a range of perceptual experiences that is integral to the work.| Styles |
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Macyn Bolt, Dark Pool III, acrylic on canvas, Minimalist, 18 x 60, 2018
By Macyn Bolt
Located in Darien, CT
At the heart of Macyn Bolt’s artistic practice is an interest in qualities of reflection, mirroring and contrasting perspectives that are unique to the space of abstract painting. W...
Category
2010s Minimalist Macyn Bolt
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
$5,000
H 18 in W 60 in D 2 in
Skipstep (DE) (Abstract Painting)
By Macyn Bolt
Located in London, GB
Skipstep (DE) (Abstract Painting)
Acrylic on canvas. Unframed.
The skipstep and Shadow Boxer paintings grow out of an interest in the paradox of spatial comprehension found in abs...
Category
2010s Abstract Geometric Macyn Bolt
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Macyn Bolt, Shift IV, 2018, Minimalist, acrylic on canvas, 16 x 20 x 2 inches
By Macyn Bolt
Located in Darien, CT
At the heart of Macyn Bolt’s artistic practice is an interest in qualities of reflection, mirroring and contrasting perspectives that are unique to the space of abstract painting. Wi...
Category
2010s Minimalist Macyn Bolt
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
$2,500
H 16 in W 20 in D 2 in
Skipstep (DE)
By Macyn Bolt
Located in London, GB
Acrylic on canvas. Unframed.
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...
Category
2010s Abstract Geometric Macyn Bolt
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
High Frequency/Slow Shift (Abstract Painting)
By Macyn Bolt
Located in London, GB
High Frequency/Slow Shift (Abstract Painting)
Acrylic on canvas. Unframed.
This work is a triptych which focuses on a shallow, mostly monochromatic surface that include bas-relief planes “locked” together against a more “fluid”, painterly background.
The dripped surface of that background is only seen through small openings, or gaps between the flat, assembled forms.
The tension of overlapping foreground shapes and the contrary background treatment is accentuated by the high-key yellow color that pushes the composition forward toward the viewer.
It creates a drama that might not readily be associated with such a shallow space that includes subtle shifts and provides a perceptual twist that has a kind of electric visual charge.
Macyn Bolt is an American abstract painter. Using a visual language informed by geometric abstraction, he creates artworks that examine how color and form create shifts in visual perception. He lives and works in Brooklyn, NY, and upstate Pennsylvania.
Bolt works with acrylic paint on a variety of surfaces including canvas, wood panel, vinyl and paper. Using scrapers...
Category
2010s Abstract Geometric Macyn Bolt
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Slow Turn
By Macyn Bolt
Located in London, GB
Acrylic on canvas - Unframed
Using the geometric vocabulary found in architectural schemata, Bolt tries to create a dynamic tension between foreground and background, center and edg...
Category
2010s Abstract Macyn Bolt
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
OC 19 (Abstract Painting)
By Macyn Bolt
Located in London, GB
OC 19 (Abstract Painting)
Acrylic on paper - Unframed.
Using the geometric vocabulary found in architectural schemata, Bolt tries to create a dynamic tension between foreground and...
Category
2010s Abstract Macyn Bolt
Materials
Paper, Acrylic
Day for Night 7
By Macyn Bolt
Located in London, GB
Acrylic on canvas - Unframed.
Using the geometric vocabulary found in architectural schemata, Bolt tries to create a dynamic tension between foreground and background, center and ed...
Category
2010s Abstract Macyn Bolt
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
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