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KIM FOSTER - Sydney Blum, Macyn Bolt

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Macyn Bolt
Navigating Opposites

Kim Foster Gallery
529 W. 20th St. 
New York, NY 10011 

June 5th - July 3rd, 2014
Opening:  June 5th 6:00 PM - 8:00 PM

Macyn Bolt's abstract paintings posit rich spatial conundrums. By employing a full 
vocabulary of painterly approaches, he contrasts interior with exterior, fluid with 
flat, motion with stasis. Foreground and background are likely to repeatedly switch 
identities. Bolt's folded, distorted shapes often speak with a sculptural voice while 
simultaneously affirming the two dimensional plane. The multiplicity of 
perspective and dimensional ambiguity are visual riddles that tempt resolution.

Sydney Blum
Fuzzy Geometry

We are pleased to announce our new exhibition by Sydney Blum titled Fuzzy 
Geometry. This series is informed by the mathematics of "fuzzy geometry" where 
spatial coordinates become a variable with a range of value, rather than being 
defined by a discrete singular location in space. The points can be more or less, 
plus or minus. The result being an ill defined shape with non-crisp boundaries, a 
nesting of geometric forms contracting and expanding offering a sense of 
continuum and interrelatedness, as well as tolerance for uncertainty and an 
indefiniteness to the space.

Despite the implications of the word "fuzzy" the mathematics is constrained by a 
rigor and discipline of its own. Blum, however, is interested in the visual and 
physical playing out of the concept beyond the mathematical formula. She is 
interested in a broader definition of visual space--the visual play, the tactile 
components, the influence of color, boundaries, beginnings and endings, 
contraction and expansion, complexity and entropy. In sum, she is interested in the 
interplay between conceptual formalism and the intuitive experience of the 
artwork.

This series of sculptures, Fuzzy Geometry, works to define space within 
concentrated dimensions, creating a chaotically ordered and increasingly focused 
energy with an intrinsic symmetry. The forms are built with colored synthetic hair 
that is tightly wrapped with fine wire around heavier wire grid substructures and 
interior grids. Blum has restricted the forms to familiar geometric shapes where the 
forms within forms direct the eye back and forth, from outer to interior space, 
interior to exterior space - a contraction and expansion. The repetitive work of 
wrapping the hair gives Blum a sense of time standing still. The hair in its fuzziness 
softens the edges of the layers and confuses the eye by forcing it to focus and 
refocus, while the grid and the geometric shapes contain the disturbance and 
reinforce the boundary. This sets up a vibration both within the form and color 
range. The structure and repetition, and the need to focus and refocus lead to an 
immersion into the form. The layers create a fuzzy "betweenness" which is an 
elemental notion of fuzzy geometry. The exploration of this geometry uses an 
intuitive and casual logic that results in defining an awkward space, generating a 
discomfort where things wobble between too loose or too tight, asking how far 
the concept might be stretched before references are lost.

Music by:
Chill Carrier - A New Day

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