The Dot Is In!… Shadows Of The Real
[March 8, 2012] Paul Kolker: The Dot Is In!… Shadows Of The Real is an exhibition of abstract paintings and light sculptures based on the photographs of the real objects from which the projected shadows were derived. Kolker’s works are founded in the intersection of the empirical or digital world of data symbolized by the dot and the artful world of our senses, intuitions and feelings. The show has been conceived and curated by the artist as an experiment in perception using the viewer as the analytic, albeit subjective and biased, measuring device. Each work challenges and...
read moreThe Dot is In…Framed!
[November 17, 2011] Paul Kolker: ‘The Dot is In…Framed!’ is an exhibition of new dot paintings which are painted on ink-jet on canvas prints of eighteenth and nineteenth century gilded frames, photographed and transformed by the artist in such a manner that the frame becomes an integral and compositional part of the subject rather than a mere decorative appendage of the work. Kolker portrays the dot as the primordial building block of our digital world; iconic for the sub-atomic particles which we cannot see with our naked eyes; or the glowing pixels, which we can barely...
read moreTints and Shades Redux
[September 22, 2011] Paul Kolker: Tints and Shades Redux is an exhibition of dot paintings, prints and light sculpture is about how color is perceived in relation to its presentation. In this show, Kolker explores the question of the aesthetic values of perceived color through new dot paintings made in his limited color palette, but in tints and shades painted on black, white or grayscale background fields. Kolker paints or prints dots of solitary color. His palette is minimal,consisting of red, green, blue and yellow; the physiological human vision colors. Although he adheres to the...
read moreThe Art of Medicine: Empirical, Intuitive or Both?
[July 1, 2011] A medical school may seem like an unlikely location for an art exhibit, but to artist Dr. Paul Kolker, a cardiothoracic surgeon and Hofstra Law School graduate, the Hofstra North Shore- LIJ School of Medicine provides the ideal setting. The educational environment at the School of Medicine meshes perfectly with Dr. Kolker’s intention–creating the idea of how art and medicine are intrinsically linked. “The Art of Medicine: Empirical, Intuitive or Both?” is now on exhibit through 2012 at the School of Medicine, located at 500 Hofstra University on the north...
read moreOver & Over
[May 26, 2011] Paul Kolker: Over & Over continues his bold experimentation with light as a medium while preserving those minimalist standards fundamental to the aesthetic purity of his work. However, in this show he dazzles the viewer with the subtleties of light trapped in glossy colored layers painted over each other on his canvases and with cascades of that more intense light reflected over and over between the mirrors in his sculptures. Those minimalist aspects of structure and color, as in the dot grid patterns of television and computer screens and those of half tone color...
read moreLet There Be Light!
[February 1, 2011] Paul Kolker, ‘Let There Be Light!’ is an exhibition of twenty-four recent sculptures, using light as its primary medium, speaks to the minimalist concepts of a new and more expansive geometry which have driven our digital graphics technology and how we see things in our illuminated world of television, computer and cell phone display screens. Kolker’s art addresses that digital culture in which we are immersed and barely notice because it has become an autonomic part of how we now perceive the world around us. In this show, he makes us aware of the new...
read moreThe Pandora Syndrome…Go Gesundheit!
[December 16, 2011] Paul Kolker: The Pandora Syndrome…Go Gesundheit! is an exhibition of paintings, prints and sculpture about our nation’s focus on health and healthcare and how we, like Pandora, continue to open the lids and covers of products that give us both pleasure and illness. Kolker uses his already well established process of fractionation and color transformation which he calls fracolor. A combination of photography and light optics, computer graphics and plotter scanning, and inkjet and screen printing techniques are used to create the acrylic on canvas paintings,...
read moreGo Gesundheit!
[September 29, 2010] Paul Kolker: Go Gesundheit! is a five part series of exhibitions based on the artist’s visual calculus of insights and intuitions about health and healthcare. In “…and Healthcare for All: The Prologue”, Dr. Kolker engages the viewer in a visual dialogue with paintings, prints and sculpture to promote feelings for and an understanding of America’s century-long journey towards ‘healthcare for all.’ Kolker’s dot matrix canvases are iconic of our digital age of cell phone, computer and television screens. However, it is his...
read moreColor, color, everywhere… Go yellow! Go green!
[June 3, 2010] Paul Kolker: Color, color, everywhere… Go yellow! Go green! is an exhibition of paintings, high definition photographs and light sculptures, about the sensory and aesthetic effects of yellow and green on the way we see in color. The rods and cones of the human retina are optical sensors. The rods are excited by low intensity light, as in night vision, perceived as a gray scale of black and white. The cones are of three types called S, M and L cones and are excited by the short wavelength of blue, the medium wavelengths of green and yellow, and the long wavelength of red....
read moreEinstein, Mandelbrot & their Footprints on the Sands of Time
[February 25, 2010] Paul Kolker: “Einstein, Mandelbrot, and their Footprints on the Sands of Time…Go Digital! The Epilogue” is the last installment of the artist’s yearlong, six-part Go Digital! series celebrating our nation’s communication media conversion to digital. In this exhibition, Kolker sets his iconic dot of television, computer and cell-phone screens in motion while creating lines, curves and loops in an experiment in perception which questions our experience. This dense (compilation of sixty-five works) and bold installation by the artist, in the...
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