Tom Bolles | Subliminal
Charles Ross | Recent Work
May 24 - June 23, 2007
Reception: Saturday, May 26, 2007, 3:00 - 5:00 PM
Bolles Biography
Ross Biography

The recent work of Tom Bolles continues his exploration of light, color, and surface.  Bolles combines the painterly approach of his earlier minimal acrylics with the tinted epoxy resins used in recent monochromatic pieces.  With this combination Bolles achieves a greater luminosity and a seductive finish while maintaining the subtle qualities of paint.

Bolles incorporates text and numbers into several paintings in the exhibition, as he has done in the past, but here the context is more timely; one diptych lists the number of American and Iraqi dead in the current Middle East conflict.  "While one rarely finds topical material in minimal art," says Bolles, "the events of our times apparently seep into every genre of work."

Braunstein/Quay Gallery reintroduces to the Bay Area the work of Charles Ross.  In the last five years, Ross has recreated a series of solar burns documenting every half-hour between sunrise and sunset on the cusp of each month.  Each burn was made during the time it takes sunlight to reach Earth, 8 minutes and 19 seconds.

Twenty-five years ago, after exploring solar burns, Ross developed an interest in naked eye astronomy.  He started an earthwork project in the desert of New Mexico entitled Star Axis.  Nearing completion, this architectonic sculpture is eleven stories high, 1/10th of a mile across, and places the viewer inside the trajectory of Earth's axis.

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