Samuel Rogers

Using fluorescent paint and form to explore color, luminosity, movement, and personal relationships, Swedish artist Ulla-Britt Bolin captures the energy of the life—with raw energy and provocation Bolin’s work explores painting’s potential. Her installations, paintings, and interactive works occupy a domain between a romantic and a conceptual art form in which a deep, psychological experience is formed. In her works broad-brush strokes and graffiti-esque lines, in acidic and delicate colors, dash across an epic surface inviting the viewer inside. Bolin has developed a reputation for epic poetic works that display both delicacy and fragility, revealing a deep respect for something fundamental, primal, and indigenous.

Demanding that viewers leave at the door notions of what painting should be, Bolin allows them the freedom to let feelings be their guide. Her paintings and sketches straddle the line between representation and abstraction. The artist’s strength lies within this fluid movement between genres and categories. Caught between description and dreamlike states, the observed and the imagined, Bolin’s work transforms the natural world into poetic visions and fantasy, while still utilizing symbolic elements to convey psychological ideas and emphasize the “freedom” of art from traditional culture. While preserving both Expressionist influences, Bolin’s paintings offer a new and unique contribution to the art and culture of her times. Her method is contemplative, meditative, and indulgent. The paradoxes in Bolin’s work lie in the blurring of boundaries between interior and exterior, self and others, the physical and spiritual. This is a mysterious form of creation, in which art seems to return to its ancestral shamanic role. Reminiscent of a dream voyage to another place, Bolin’s works are deeply personal, evoking her own subconsciousness, while revealing universal truths about the journey and celebration of life.

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