Lisa Bolin

A smoldering Fire, Painting, Acrylic on Canvas

2015

An original one-of-a-kind palette knife painting with a gentle texture. You can feel the warmth and energy from the painting. Coral, magenta, shades of pink and red in combinatio...

Geometry lies behind a landslide of fire and ice, Oil and spray pigments over acrylic texture, :: Painting :: Abstract :: This piece comes wi...

High-contrast, bold, and impressive acrylic contemporary abstract painting. High texture to bring out the natural elements of fire and earth tones. A splash of red and gold tones c...

Inspired by fiery Hawaiian volcanoes. Layers of mineral like colors and vibrancy only found in earth formations. Very expressive and intricate color field. I include a certificate...

Artist Comments
Horizontal color fields define this abstract composition. A muted, textured grey fills the upper third and shifts into a dense black band with outward energetic...

Fire and ice (Abstract Painting) Ink on handmade paper - Unframed Mertes-Frady creates layered, expressionistic, abstract compositions She is inspired b...

Jessica Houston’s most recent works look north. What is north? Where is it? Is it a fixed place, or something else? Her second solo show at Art Mûr brings together paintings, a sound sculpture, and chine collé prints, all of which reveal a fragile, fluid, and often fractured, north. An iron ore stone becomes a speaker, playing recordings of interviews and singing, and expanding the physical presence of the stone. The exaggerated textures of the paintings give them, too, a sculptural and documentary feel. They record how actions—breaking and piercing, pushing and pulling—disrupt and transform the paintings’ surfaces. By resembling patterns one finds in the wild—scratches across the surface of a rock, uneven waves that form on melting snow—they unhinge any clear distinction between what is natural and what is made. Made with a printmaking technique that binds together distinct papers, the chine collé prints begin with photographs Houston took of Baffin Island. She then combines the images with coloured paper, creating traces of the process of extracting and replacing parts of a scene, and an equal awareness of both what is present and absent. Some are composed of double circles, like looking through binoculars. In Business As Usual, a decaying interior—peeling wallpaper...

“Burning Ember” is a captivating abstract artwork that captures the intensity of flame and heat through vivid, dynamic palettes and brushwork. The painting is characterized by bold s...