[October 18, 2007] In forms, spaces and surfaces, Kolker employs art as an experiment to test and question experience, especially when it involves perception. The forthcoming show, an experiment in stereopsis and neocubism, tests and questions what we see. Stereopsis,...
[May 17, 2007] “Surge on to the gardens,” is about the urgency to rescue our hibernal and wintry hemisphere by re-greening our environment, thoughts and feelings. What began as an experiment about minimalism in 1980 has evolved into Kolker’s...
[March 29, 2007] “Knots and dots” is about the dynamic tension in ideas and feelings between the physical world we see highly defined from afar (knots) and that same world up-close (dots). What began as an experiment about minimalism in 1980 has evolved...
[December 14, 2006] “About Faces” highlights a panorama of twelve portraits of Kolkers stars of science and mathematics, the arts and communication media, installed in a super-sized suite, 96 x 288 inches. Also included is a retrospective of paintings...
[October 19, 2006] Paul Kolker’s H5N1 Flu Over the Cuckoo’s Nest — Picture an avian flu virus, a rooster, pigeon droppings, attacking birds, Alfred Hitchcock, The Birds, hysteria, Jack Nicholson as Randle, inflatable fowl, chicken, eggs, vintery,...
[April 6, 2006] Paul Kolker’s “Surge on to the operating room” — Kolker is Chief of Cardiothoracic Surgery at North Shore LIJ / Glen Cove Hospital on Long Island. As a surgeon, the artist has “star[ed] productively at naked bodies”...
