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216 works
Breaking Down Art
Transfer painting built from a failed Oslo canvas — the exact size requested for a Berlin group show.
Megacities
A satellite-imagery collage merging nine Arab League cities — Cairo, Baghdad, Riyadh, Amman, Algiers, Casablanca, Dubai, Damascus, Beirut — into one continuous urban geography.
Breaking Down Art
A transfer painting made at the Gerrit Rietveld Akademie in 2007, combining multiple photographs from Skulptur Projekte Münster into a single landscape composition.
Megacities
This aerial photograph depicts a densely populated urban area with a prominent river flowing through it.
Vanishing Landscapes
The composition is a tall vertical field split cleanly into two unequal registers: a vast, nearly featureless pale sky occupies roughly two-thirds of the canvas from the top down, giving way at the…
Megacities
A seamless collage of satellite images of Germany's nine largest cities by population — Berlin, Hamburg, Munich, Frankfurt am Main, Cologne, Düsseldorf, Essen, Dortmund, and Stuttgart — stitched into…
Videos
A four-minute video monologue in which Bernard Bolter recalls the 1998 preliminary entrance exam at the Gerrit Rietveld Academie in Amsterdam — the act of making a painting to destroy it in the room…
Installations
A collaborative street performance made with Jur Jarring at the HKU Utrecht in 2000.
Vanishing Landscapes
Transfer painting of South Elliott and Lafayette Streets, Fort Greene, Brooklyn, fall 2004.
Drawings
A small pen drawing made on location in Amsterdam, circa 1997–98, during Bolter's first solo travels through Europe.
Watercolors
Watercolour and pencil on paper, made on location on the roof of the San Francisco Art Institute in 1996.
OG Oil Paintings
Oil on raw, self-stretched canvas, painted in a covered backyard in San Francisco's Sunset District on the artist's birthday in 1993.
Art Collision
A digital print and acrylic collage on canvas depicting the New York skyline as a tree growing from the earth, with painted housing project pairs extending to the left — a visual translation of the…
Digital City Series
A seamless digital composite of Basel, Switzerland — the founding work of the Digital City Series.
A Colorful History
A 1899 photograph of the Brandenburg Gate, looking west along the walkway, transferred onto canvas and painted with flat acrylic colour fields — the first painting in the Gates of Perception series,…
A Colorful History
The composition is a wide horizontal field, roughly twice as wide as tall, divided by a hard continuous horizon line running the full width at close to the vertical midpoint.
Vanishing Landscapes
A Colorful History
The composition sits on a hard horizontal division roughly two-thirds down the canvas, the flat pale sky-blue above meeting a solid ultramarine-navy below at a horizon that bows gently upward at…