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Carole Bolsey, "Hudson River Backwater," 2019,
mixed media on canvas, 7' 6" x 26' 10"
Carole Bolsey’s “Hudson River Backwater”
Wednesday, February 6th, 2019 // Artscope Online, News, Visual Arts
by Bryanna F. Drew
Carole Bolsey is known for her large-scale canvases. So, when VisionArt was looking for an artist to take up their monumental 8’ x 27’ task of creating a piece of art large enough to serve as a “window” to the outdoors, Christina Godfrey (director of contemporary and corporate art at Sunne Savage Gallery) knew just the artist for the job.
A Shape with No Name: The Art of Carole Bolsey
The Shape with No Name:
The Art of Carole Bolsey
Paperback – December 1, 2009, In his introductory essay to this lavishly produced book of the oeuvre of artist Carole Bolsey, renowned art critic Donald Kuspit examines her use of simple, iconic objects such as barns, boats, horses and bulls to recover the state of reverie in which every appearance becomes an aesthetic hallucination*, providing an insightful analysis from his Jungian, symbolical point of view. Kuspit goes on to say that Bolsey's shape with no name is, in his idiosyncratic phrase, the goddess of good creative health. It (and its surrogates, particularly the rowboats, another anonymous sanctuary in which one can float far from the maddening [sic] crowd) is clearly the touchstone of her creativity even as it is a symbol of her body in ideal abstract perfection.