Macyn Bolt Art
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.to
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Artist: Macyn Bolt
High Wire (Abstract Painting)
By Macyn Bolt
Located in London, GB
High Wire (Abstract Painting)
Acrylic on canvas - Unframed
Using the geometric vocabulary found in architectural schemata, Bolt tries to create a dynamic tension between foreground...
Category
2010s Abstract Macyn Bolt Art
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
OA 19 (Abstract Painting)
By Macyn Bolt
Located in London, GB
OA 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 Art
Materials
Paper, Acrylic
Shadow Boxer (D.1) (Abstract Painting)
By Macyn Bolt
Located in London, GB
Shadow Boxer (D.1) (Abstract Painting)
Acrylic on canvas - Unframed
The Shadow Boxer and skipstep 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...
Category
2010s Abstract Geometric Macyn Bolt Art
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Shadow boxer (A.2) (Abstract Painting)
By Macyn Bolt
Located in London, GB
Shadow boxer (A.2) (Abstract Painting)
Acrylic on canvas. Unframed.
The Shadow Boxer and skipstep 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...
Category
2010s Abstract Geometric Macyn Bolt Art
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Day for Night 3 (Abstract Painting)
By Macyn Bolt
Located in London, GB
Day for Night 3 (Abstract Painting)
Acrylic on canvas - Unframed.
Using the geometric vocabulary found in architectural schemata, Bolt tries to create a dyna...
Category
2010s Abstract Macyn Bolt Art
Materials
Acrylic, Canvas
01-19 (Abstract painting)
By Macyn Bolt
Located in London, GB
01-19 (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 Art
Materials
Paper, Acrylic
Shadow Boxer (D.3) (Abstract Painting)
By Macyn Bolt
Located in London, GB
Shadow Boxer (D.3) (Abstract Painting)
Acrylic on canvas - Unframed
The Shadow Boxer and skipstep 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.
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 Art
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Day for Night 4 (Abstract painting)
By Macyn Bolt
Located in London, GB
Day for Night 4 (Abstract painting)
Acrylic on canvas - Unframed.
Using the geometric vocabulary found in architectural schemata, Bolt tries to create a dynamic tension between for...
Category
2010s Abstract Macyn Bolt Art
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Shadow Boxer (B.2) (Abstract Painting)
By Macyn Bolt
Located in London, GB
Shadow Boxer (B.2) (Abstract Painting)
Acrylic on canvas - Unframed
The Shadow Boxer and skipstep paintings grow out of an interest in the paradox of spatial comprehension found in...
Category
2010s Abstract Macyn Bolt Art
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Day for Night 7 (Abstract Painting)
By Macyn Bolt
Located in London, GB
Day for Night 7 (Abstract Painting)
Acrylic on canvas - Unframed.
Using the geometric vocabulary found in architectural schemata, Bolt tries to create a dynamic tension between for...
Category
2010s Abstract Macyn Bolt Art
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Day for Night 3 (Abstract Painting)
By Macyn Bolt
Located in London, GB
Day for Night 3 (Abstract Painting)
Acrylic on canvas - Unframed.
Using the geometric vocabulary found in architectural schemata, Bolt tries to create a dyna...
Category
2010s Abstract Macyn Bolt Art
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Intersect (High Frequency) (Abstract Painting)
By Macyn Bolt
Located in London, GB
Intersect (High Frequency) (Abstract Painting)
Acrylic on canvas - Unframed
Using the geometric vocabulary found in architectural schemata, Bolt tries to create a dynamic tension b...
Category
2010s Abstract Macyn Bolt Art
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Shadow boxer (D.4) (Abstract Painting)
By Macyn Bolt
Located in London, GB
Shadow boxer (D.4) (Abstract Painting)
Acrylic on canvas. Unframed.
The Shadow Boxer and skipstep paintings grow out of an interest in the paradox of spatial comprehension found i...
Category
2010s Abstract Geometric Macyn Bolt Art
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Relay Race 2 (Abstract Painting)
By Macyn Bolt
Located in London, GB
Relay Race 2 (Abstract Painting)
Acrylic on canvas - Unframed.
Using the geometric vocabulary found in architectural schemata, Bolt tries to create a dynamic tension between foregr...
Category
2010s Abstract Macyn Bolt Art
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
High Wire
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 Art
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Shadow Boxer (D.1)
By Macyn Bolt
Located in London, GB
Acrylic on canvas - Unframed
The Shadow Boxer and skipstep 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 Art
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Shadow Boxer (B.2)
By Macyn Bolt
Located in London, GB
Acrylic on canvas - Unframed
The Shadow Boxer and skipstep paintings grow out of an interest in the paradox of spatial comprehension found in abstract painting.
As with the shadow...
Category
2010s Abstract Macyn Bolt Art
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Shadow boxer (D.4)
By Macyn Bolt
Located in London, GB
Acrylic on canvas. Unframed.
The Shadow Boxer and skipstep 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 Art
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Skipstep (AA)
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 sha...
Category
2010s Abstract Macyn Bolt Art
Materials
Acrylic, Canvas
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