“The Essays Of My Perception… Paintings Which Speak To Me” Exhibition

PAUL KOLKER collection

[Image: Paul Kolker "a breath away... synthése" (2018) inkjet and acrylic on canvas 33 x 33 in.]

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Paul Kolker presents The Essays of My Perception… Paintings Which Speak to Me. The exhibition is an experiment in perception testing whether having read essays written by the artist and curator influence the beholder’s perception of the exhibition and the works in it, whether abstract or figural. Depicted above is one of nine control paintings not directly referenced in the essays.

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. The Essays of My Perception… Paintings Which Speak To Me is Kolker’s sixty-fourth solo exhibition.

In Paul Kolker: The Essays of My Perception… Paintings Which Speak To Me, twenty-two works.