PAUL KOLKER

exhibitions

ONGOING

» 600 Third Ave. [Masks + Distancing]
Abstract Decalcomania –
An Experiment In Perception

ONGOING

» 511 West 25th St. [Masks + Distancing]
The Ishidots Festival

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The Best Is Yet To Be…
Overpainted Tears

PAUL KOLKER

Exhibitions

Dialogical Perception… Art as Experiment

Dialogical Perception… Art as Experiment

Paul Kolker is pleased to present his seventy-third solo exhibition, Dialogical Perception… Art as Experiment at his studio, the PAUL KOLKER collection, 511 West 25th Street from February 6 through March 27, 2020.

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About Atmosphere…Synthèse

About Atmosphere…Synthèse

Paul Kolker is pleased to present his seventieth solo exhibition, About Atmosphere… Synthèse at the PAUL KOLKER Collection, 511 West 25th Street from June 6 through September 6, 2019…

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About Space… Synthese

About Space… Synthese

Contemporary artist Paul Kolker’s exhibition of paintings and photographic prints is about an experiment which questions how we perceive the illusion of three dimensional static space in a two dimensional canvas; while using a sculptural control group of volumetric pyramids of spheres.

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About Synthèse… The Marriage of Figural

About Synthèse… The Marriage of Figural

Paul Kolker is pleased to present About Synthèse… The Marriage of Figural. The exhibition, produced and curated by the artist, features Kolker’s new experimental paintings, prints, sculpture and videos which he calls ‘synthèse’ because they evoke the illusion of a synthetic transformation fusing his abstract and figural paintings…

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About Topsy Turvy Perceptions… October 1962

About Topsy Turvy Perceptions… October 1962

The “About Topsy Turvy Perceptions… October 1962” exhibition features paintings, sculpture and live interactive video documenting some of the the artist’s most difficult to fathom perceptions experienced while Chief of the 3565 USAF Clinics at James Connally AFB, Waco, TX during the 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis…

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The Long Drive Home

The Long Drive Home

Paul Kolker is pleased to present The Long Drive Home at the PAUL KOLKER collection from July 19 through September 13, 2018. This exhibition of so-called synthèse paintings, which are both abstract and figural, and light sculpture is produced and curated by the artist as an experiment in perception…

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Origins… Helen’s Dots

Origins… Helen’s Dots

Contemporary NYC artist, Paul Kolker presents Origins… Helen’s Dots contemporary art exhibition in New York City from January 25 through March 16, 2018.

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Gesundheit Reimagined!

Gesundheit Reimagined!

The show’s title is derived from our “gesundheit” response to hearing a nearby person’s sneeze; a proclamation of our wishes for his good health. Kolker curates this exhibition, using his works as a projective psychological experiment, to test the viewer’s perception of imagery, cognition and understanding generated from the viewer’s reading Kolker’s text painted over an abstract or figural painting; or in viewing figural paintings without text…portraying our governmental health care leaders, legislators and justices, which we also perceive visually, but as Kolker’s aesthetic, yet graphic and painterly sign language.

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The Dot is in the Sky

The Dot is in the Sky

Paul Kolker presents The Dot is in the Sky at the PAUL KOLKER collection from August 3 through September 20, 2017. The exhibition is an experiment testing indirect perception…

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The Dot is in the Park

The Dot is in the Park

Paul Kolker presents The Dot is in the Park at the Paul Kolker collection from May 25 through July 28, 2017. The exhibition of paintings, prints and light sculptures is an experiment testing how the viewer perceives elemental colors placed one next to the other…

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The Ishidots Festival

The Ishidots Festival

Paul Kolker presents The Ishidots Festival at the PAUL KOLKER collection from May 12 through September 9, 2016 in attribution to Dr. Shinobu Ishihara and his century-old color vision charts of painted dots; still used by ophthalmologists to test for color blindness…

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Is Seeing Believing?

Is Seeing Believing?

Paul Kolker collection is pleased to present Paul Kolker: Is Seeing Believing?, a summer-long solo exhibition curated and produced by the artist as an experiment in perception, from July 9 through September 11, 2015…

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The Droste Effect

The Droste Effect

Paul Kolker presents The Droste Effect exhibition, which features paintings, prints and sculpture as an experiment in perception based on the artist’s first use of iterative processes generated by a television screen’s moving image repeatedly reflected in a mirrored room…

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Flatland Reimagined…A Romance of the Line and the Dot

Flatland Reimagined…A Romance of the Line and the Dot

Paul Kolker presents Flatland Reimagined…A Romance of the Line and the Dot, an exhibition of light sculptures and paintings of dots overlaid with lines in the form of grids, curves, squares and squiggles that suggest a melee of dimensionality and gestural movement.

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Flatland Redux…The New Abstract!

Flatland Redux…The New Abstract!

Paul Kolker presents Flatland Redux…The New Abstract! – an exhibition of paintings, drawings, photographic prints and light sculptures is about the sectioning of our multidimensional world of space and time into flat planes of canvas, paper and mirror.

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The Space Between – Group Exhibition Curated By Diana Buckley

The Space Between – Group Exhibition Curated By Diana Buckley

Diana Buckley, guest curator presents the group exhibition, The Space Between from November 13-16, 2014 at the PAUL KOLKER collection. Artists include, Joe Ball- weg, Brent Birnbaum, Vince Contarino, Erik Gonzalez, Sarah Han, Jeffrey Kessel, Paul Kolker, Visakh Menon and Serry Park…

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Speak to Me…About Healthcare!

Speak to Me…About Healthcare!

presents his sixth solo exhibition about healthcare since 2006, “Speak to Me…About Healthcare!” – opening at the Paul Kolker collection in Chelsea New York on February 27, 2014. Paintings and video infinity light sculptures provide the historical narrative for more than a century of US federal governmental healthcare reform as transformed by the artist, who is also a physician, lawyer and, at one time, director of a healthcare insurance company.

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Crossing Tenth Avenue

Crossing Tenth Avenue

Paul Kolker is pleased to present Crossing Tenth Avenue, an exhibition of his light sculptures and paintings opening on October 10, 2013 at Paul Kolker

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Standards and Horizons

Standards and Horizons

Paul Kolker is pleased to present Standards and Horizons, an exhibition of light sculptures and paintings opening on July 11, 2013 in the Chelsea gallery district New York City…

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Shapes, Spaces and Surfaces, Redux

Shapes, Spaces and Surfaces, Redux

Paul Kolker presents an exhibition of his new paintings which test the viewers’ perceptual relationships between abstract and figurative images superimposed on the same canvas…

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In a Blink of the Eye!

In a Blink of the Eye!

Paul Kolker is pleased to present “In a Blink of the Eye!” from March 7 to April 26, 2013 at the artist’s Chelsea gallery.

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Water, Water Everywhere

Water, Water Everywhere

Paul Kolker Gallery is pleased to present “Water, Water Everywhere”, an exhibition of Kolker’s new works on canvas based on his iPhone photographs of his Chelsea gallery’s flooding during superstorm Sandy.

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The Dot is In…Speak to Me!

The Dot is In…Speak to Me!

Paul Kolker presents The Dot is In…Speak to Me! – an exhibition of Kolker’s paintings and light sculptures that has been produced and curated by the artist with the intent of fostering an age-gone-by Schopenhauerian etiquette dictating that one must stand before a picture, as before a prince, waiting to see whether and what it will speak to us.

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The Dot is In!…Reflections on Roberts Rules

The Dot is In!…Reflections on Roberts Rules

Paul Kolker presents “The Dot is In!…Reflections on Roberts Rules,” an exhibition about the past hundred years in the development of American healthcare as influenced by the political process and most recently by the judiciary through a metaphorically ethereal, yet heroic, decision by Chief Justice Roberts.

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Over & Over

Over & Over

[May 26, 2011] Paul Kolker: Over & Over continues his bold experimentation with light as a medium...

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Go Gesundheit!

Go Gesundheit!

[September 29, 2010] Paul Kolker: Go Gesundheit! is a five part series of exhibitions based on the...

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The Dot is In!

The Dot is In!

[December 11, 2008] In "The Dot is In!", Paul Kolker exhibits a new series of modular and colorful...

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About Faces, too

About Faces, too

[July 17, 2008] In "About Faces, too", Kolker continues his art as an experiment by using the...

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The Rule of Nine

The Rule of Nine

[March 13, 2008] In "The Rule of Nine", Kolker uses his process based art as a perceptual...

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Knots and Dots

Knots and Dots

[March 29, 2007] "Knots and dots" is about the dynamic tension in ideas and feelings between the...

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About Faces

About Faces

[December 14, 2006] "About Faces" highlights a panorama of twelve portraits of Kolkers stars of...

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Expansions of Color

Expansions of Color

[April 1, 2004] Paul Kolker's current works in progress, Expansions of Color bridge the chasm of...

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In Perspective

In Perspective

[March 20, 2003] Paul Kolker's In Perspective is the artist's first solo exhibition in New York....

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UPCOMING EXHIBITION

The Best Is Yet To Be…
Overpainted Tears

The Best Is Yet To Be - Overpainted Tears

The Best Is Yet To Be… Overpainted Tears

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Opening September 10, 2020

The works were produced by Kolker while in COVID-19 quarantine at his Long Island studio to study and test the many procedural variables used in his making abstract decalcomania paintings, and by overpainting newspaper tears laid on canvas to test the viewer’s indirect-perception, an automatic brain function which fills in visual blind spots such as those obscuring the newspaper texts.

Abstract Decalcomania – An Experiment In Perception

Ongoing

This ongoing satellite exhibition of select works from Abstract Decalcomania – An Experiment In Perception can be viewed at 600 Third Avenue in New York City. Kolker, as both artist and curator, is known to create and exhibit his art as an experiment in perception, testing our experience. Because technology has changed the ways we see, understand and communicate by using devices with flat screens, display grids and colored dots of light, the dot remains Kolker’s focus; but in this expansive exhibition, there is a new twist.

Feb 22, 2020

Paintings Which Speak to Me… Grandpa Murray and His Amazing ‘Fire Engine Red’ Super Pumper

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