Casey Bolding
"Routine Malfunction" examines the absurdities, extremes, and maleficence of the everyday. Bringing together an eclectic group of eight artists and paintings, sculpture, photography and works on paper, the exhibition is united under the umbrella of contemporary cultural critiques. Dark humor runs rampant, as artists examine the beauties, cruelties, and misgivings of daily life. With humor and compassion, the works seek to reflect upon how we navigate this unforgiving terrain. And though our navigations tend to be clumsy, occasionally, there is grace.
Bolding builds an eerie painterly world in which the compositions showcase ambiguous figures and vivid colours. Often, his narratives overlap each other within the same canvas underlying fractures of a lively abstraction. The artist describes his work as both “incidental” and “intentional“, stating the contradictory duality of his compositions. In terms of his themes, his pictorial variation coincides with the array of the stylistic features that do not easily reveal themselves on the canvas’ surface. Some painting attempts seem to make sense while others flirt with creative randomness. Actually, what the viewer’s eye sees can be a deliberately executed composition of reality and imagination, whereas other painting outcomes are more orchestrated.
Casey Bolding is a Postwar & Contemporary artist who was born in 1987. Their work was featured in several exhibitions at key galleries and museums, including the 1969 Gallery and the Catinca Tabacaru Gallery, New York. In MutualArt’s artist press archive, Casey Bolding is featured in Routine Malfunction Group Show at 1969 Gallery, NYC, a piece from the JUXTAPOZ in 2019.
Reiterating the symbolic nature of his work, Bolding is keen on utilising subliminal imagery, or subtle shapes and signs, to capture something primal in his audience. Some things that we relate to, we can't explain. His paintings are often such things. Out of the gallery and studio, whilst working in the street, Bolding's paintings appear even more out of context, using forms and techniques largely unseen in street art.
On his website, Bolding's works are described as taking 'on a high art facade, executed with low brow materials'. Another paradox. Another level of contradiction and depth.
Throughout all of his works, faces remain largely obscured, yet despite that, convey a deep and kinetic expression of pain; ecstasy; grief and torment. Sometimes all of these things indistinguishably at once. Bolding's paintings are always simply and clean in execution, but pack in many styles, genres and themes contributing to the underlining feeling that they're both art and puzzles to chew over - some of which seem to be about the individual, others the collective, but always the universal.
Acrylic and enamel on board
36 in X 36 in
$2,500
Acrylic and Enamel on Canvas
32 in X 32 in
$2,100
Acrylic and enamel on board
26 X 16 in
$1,700
Acrylic and enamel on board
36 in X 36 in
$1,300
Acrylic and enamel on board
36 in X 36 in
$2,500
Acrylic and Enamel on Canvas
32 in X 32 in
$2,100
Acrylic and enamel on board
26 X 16 in
$1,700
Acrylic and enamel on board
36 in X 36 in
$1,300
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