VISUAL ARTS + MUSEUMS

Anya Tish Gallery presents HJ Bott: Paradigms in Paint and Wire, on view September 10 - October 9, 2010. September 10, 2010, 6:00 - 8:30pm, Champagne Reception for the Artist.

HJ Bott's new collection of work, Paradigms in Paint and Wire, at Anya Tish Gallery includes a series of paintings and wire sculptures created over the last decade. Bott’s fascination with the complex and hypnotic systems of lines within his paintings and sculpture stem from a motif he developed in the seventies called the DoV module in which he organizes a system of archetypal patterns and symbols into a grid-like structure. 

About HJ (aka Harvey) BOTT - Born in Colorado. Attended adult life-drawing classes for five years at Greeley State College, starting age 9, first major two-person exhibit at Trinity University at 14. At 15, owned a scale modeling business for architectural firms. Therewith began a Tri-Coastal and European education AND exhibition process; including galleries, art centers and museums in New York, Los Angeles, Paris, Houston, Chicago, San Francisco, Dallas, Denver, Koln, Dusseldorf, Rio de Janeiro, Mexico City and many others.

 Over 75 solo exhibitions, 16 solo ROBOTT performances, 24 in-situ installations, more than 700 group exhibitions, including over 330 invitational group surveys. Over 60 public (museum, city & university) and 118 corporate collections include the work. Completed 20 governmental and over 160 private and corporate commissions. Current studio concentration: painting, executing relief-constructs and researching light/sound/images in hyperspace-like installations.

First and only American sculptor to win "Premier les plus Sculpture," Prix de Paris, 1965. "Plastik Reisestipedium/Europa," "Koln Kunstuerein, Plastik Kunste," 1956, only American to win.