“About Topsy Turvy Perceptions… October 1962” Exhibition

“About Topsy Turvy Perceptions… October 1962” Exhibition

PAUL KOLKER collection

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Paul Kolker presents About Topsy Turvy Perceptions… October 1962, at the PAUL KOLKER collection in Chelsea. The 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; as if the world had then gone topsy turvy… turned upside down in utter confusion.

The artist has created and curated this exhibition to be hung upside down… topsy turvy, to test the viewer’s perception of faces, places and objects. Watching television sidewise from the supine position can be perceptually challenging enough. Watching upside down can be utterly confusing. Brain science defines specific areas in the brain for the recognition of faces, places and objects. Inverted faces and some text seem to be the most difficult to perceive without the crutches of an inverted video display screen or glass gazing ball; or standing on one’s head.

Paul Kolker (b. 1935) is a New York based artist with doctorate degrees in medicine and law. He is Fellow American College of Surgeons, Fellow American College of Legal Medicine and Emeritus Chief of Cardiothoracic Surgery at Northwell Glen Cove Hospital, having practiced cardiothoracic surgery on Long Island from 1969 to 2013. In October 2001 Kolker moved his Long Island studio to his current address in the Chelsea art district so that he could produce his works and curate his exhibitions as an experiment in perception. His studio and gallery have together become his laboratory in which the viewer is the measuring instrument for Kolker’s art as a perceptual experiment. About Topsy Turvy Perceptions… October 1962 is Kolker’s sixty-seventh solo exhibition.

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