Frank Olt "Recent Work"
Lohin Geduld Gallery
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Frank Olt began his career as a ceramic artist, studying with Bauhaus-trained Rose Krebs. Through material studies and a love of Pollock and Rothko, Olt soon found himself making both ceramic work and paintings. Like Yvonne Thomas, Olt sees abstraction as a forum with limitless possibilities for formal invention. Inspired by cyclone fencing, fishing nets, and stadium backstops, Olt uses shifting and layered grids to create compositions that pulsate with a figure/ground energy. Slight curving of the grid results in the illusion of an encompassing volumetric space. Hot and cold colors collide creating spatial flip-flops, as positive forms recede and backgrounds advance.
Olt talks about the grid as a safety netting or Jacob’s Ladder, but ultimately it is his fascination with color relationships and charged fields that gives these paintings a palpable vibrancy. Far from a static pictorial device, Frank Olt's grids enliven the picture plane with movement and urgency.
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from February 12, 2009 to March 14, 2009