2024, 9x12x14in., Media: Porcelain, Firing Process: Electric, High-fire, Oxidation, Surface: Glazed
Intersecting hoops of color encircle imaginary structures. A horizonal landscape naturally returns to a center source of energy.
2024, 12x24x12in.
3d Printed Nylon, Mylar, Acrylic Paint, Silicone, Stainless Steel, Steel A percussive field of luminous cones hover below a declarative sky. Intonations are imagined and answered.
2024, 5x7x5in., Media: Porcelain, Firing Process: Electric, High-fire, Oxidation, Surface: Glazed
Pale yellow discs create a pass through while floating over unknown terrain.
2024, 8x36x15in.
3d Printed Nylon, Recycled PETG, Acrylic and Oil Paint, Stainless Steel, Steel Hinging upward from one-point perspective, this work is 3d printed from recycled water bottles. Acrylic painted overcast sky is woven with translucent hemispheres that hold and release energy.
2024, 7.5x7.5x5in., Media: Porcelain, Firing Process: Electric, High-fire, Surface: Glazed
Two intersection disks hold a fragile landscape of color and light protecting new growth.
2024, 10x12x10in., Media: Porcelain, Firing Process: Electric, High-fire, Surface: Glazed
Mass and color aggressively proclaim peaking summer landscape. A conically assembled sky projects the sensation of sound, a symbol of heraldry.
2024, 16x24x12in.
3d Printed Recycled PETG, Oil Glaze and Pigments. Stainless Steel, Steel Loaded, this wall relief spiked to wood panel is almost uncontainable. Atmospheric space has an optimistic grip on color and light as it billows up and out.
2024, 26x24x18in.
3d Printed Nylon, Acrylic and Oil Paint, Silicone, Stainless Steel, Steel, Aluminum A suspension piece floats searching for a horizon. Primitive geometry, acrylic paint and luminous atmospherics transmit light in a celestial celebration.
2024, 4x12.5x4in., Media: Porcelain, Firing Process: Electric, High-fire, Surface: Glazed
Slumped and bent by fire this sculpture searches for an optimistic future. Arching spaces hold vulnerability and strength.
2024, 20x34x14in.
3d Printed Nylon/ Carbon, Acrylic and Oil Paint, Wax, Stainless Steel, Steel Hundreds of 3d printed forms pack together, an organic energy with purpose.Serving as a ground for acrylic and oil painting, color and form are deeply embedded, a protective space not easily entered or exited.
Artist Statement
Scatter
Gather
When I interact with the landscape, observational drawing and painting become a search for meaning. Scattering perception beyond concept is a practice that is experiential and limitless. I let in all that is available to me in the moment suspending what is before me in an ether of continual change. I work to express presence physically, what I observe and remember is rediscovered when I make art.
Geometry and light sensitive materials become an aesthetic and structural language for sharing my ideas. My sculpture feels like a woven landscape. Color and form appear to be weightless. Energy flows as objects spring to life, fully formed. I imagine each piece as an intimate universe, bound together by positive attraction. Temporal moments are scattered and gathered, a tuning process of chroma, form and spatial frequencies.
Multiple working methods are used to locate my drawing and painting in 3d space. 3d printed nylon/carbon fiber and recycled plastic from water bottles create structures for acrylic and oil painted wall reliefs. Free standing sculpture is assembled in porcelain, handbuilt, 3d printed and glazed. Making, mirrors my connection with landscape, autopoetic and discoverable in the moment.
Bio
Formerly based in NE Minneapolis, MN from 2008-2023, Boldon now works in his NW Wisconsin studio at the head waters of the St. Croix River. Boldon exhibits his sculpture nationally and internationally as a solo artist. As part of a collaborative team with artist Amy Baur, Boldon has installed over 60 Public Art installations nationally. Boldon uses digital technology for visualization, photographic printing for kiln-fused glass and ceramic imagery, and 3d printing with porcelain for creating sculpture and installations in Fine Art and Public spaces. In 2012 Boldon received the McKnight Fellowship for Ceramic Art.
Boldon coordinated the Ceramics and Graduate Programs at Michigan State University from 1995-2008, headed the Ceramics Program at the University of Alaska Anchorage 1990-1995 and taught sculpture and drawing at Hamilton College in Clinton NY 1989-90. Boldon received a BS in Art from the University of Wisconsin Madison in 1982 and an MFA from Rhode Island School of Design in1988.