Art today increasingly breaks down the barriers between the traditional categories assigned to artistic practices during the art historical canon. Lines are continuously being blurred between low and high art, painting and sculpture, etc… Holton Rower fits well in this category of contemporary artists exploring and experimenting with different media and techniques to see how far these boundaries can be moved around.
Grandson of Alexander Calder, he inevitably grew up surrounded by art, but also by a large amount of materials used in the construction business owned by his father. Best known for his “pour paintings,” where he pours up to 50 gallons of different brightly colours paints over blocks and panels. However, he works in a range of techniques, including assemblage, sculpture, installation, and painting. His pour paintings seem to find themselves somewhere between art and sculpture, as the paint pours and spreads around the object it is being poured on. The concentric circles formed from the excessive layering of paint morph themselves with the object, creating abstract psychedelic patterns in and around the object. Nevertheless, while these sculpture-paintings are entirely un-representational, Rower’s intelligent use of chance and gravity creates wonderful artworks that resemble elements seen in the natural world, such as tree trunk circles, or even the beautiful, vibrantly coloured geysers at Yellowstone National Park.
Since the early 1990s, Rower has been in numerous solo exhibitions, as well as a few group ones. He was last exhibited at the Hole Gallery in New York (2013), but has also been featured at the Galerie Maeght in both Barcelona (2001) and Paris (1998), the Moving Museum in Dubai (2013), and the Shizaru Gallery in London (2011).
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