Shadow Boxer (D.1) Macha Poynder raw canvas

raw canvas

and paint thinners)

and the contour of downtown Chicago was a crystalline mirage in the dusk

Each layer of paint is like a veil

began in April 2013 is about time-keeping

Shadow Boxer (D.1) Macha Poynder raw canvasThe 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