Shadow Boxer (B.2) Susan Cantrick Martin Brest

Martin Brest

Pedersen works with acrylic paint

placed onto wooden stretcher bars) and/or framed by a local framer upon arrival

idiosyncratic painting method that involves methodical accumulations of abrupt

Shadow Boxer (B.2) Susan Cantrick Martin BrestThe Shadow Boxer and skipstep paintings grow out of an interest in the paradox of spatial comprehension found in abstract painting. As with the shadow boxing practice in which the athlete spars with his or her own shadow, Bolt finds that the illusory qualities of abstract composition initiate a similar exercise of perception and expectation. Using the geometric vocabulary found in architectural schemata, Bolt tries to create a dynamic tension between