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Four large, colourful artworks hang in a bright white gallery. Each piece features concentric, organic shapes in vibrant hues, resembling cross-sections of minerals or biological cells.

Beautiful, flow-triumphant Pour Paintings by Holton Rower on show in New York

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Date
4 May 2012

What is more impressive than one psychedelic spectral pour painting by Holton Rower? 19 of them. New York’s The Hole gallery presents the latest in the artist’s beautifully vivid, process-driven works that reveal the time that made them like the rings of a tree while simultaneously appearing as if a particularly chromatic work of art had melted on its plinth.

“Paint here is truly on parade,” says the gallery of the collected works. Individually they are the product of a high experimentation and pre-meditation; the properties of each cascading colour creating a singular, accumulative path that blends, moves about and pushes, vacillating form and direction and finally settling into autonomous and unexpected beauty.

A large, irregularly shaped painting featuring swirling, concentric bands of vibrant colour. The abstract composition resembles a cross-section of a mineral or a psychedelic topographical map.
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Holton Rower: Pour Paintings. Image courtesy The Hole, New York.

Three large, colourful textile sculptures hang in a white gallery space. The organic, flower-like forms feature concentric layers of vibrant fabric in red, yellow, blue and green.
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Holton Rower: Pour Paintings. Image courtesy The Hole, New York.

Three large, colourful sculptures with concentric, swirling patterns are displayed in a bright white gallery. The organic, symmetrical forms are mounted on the walls and floor, reflecting on the polished white surface.
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Holton Rower: Pour Paintings. Image courtesy The Hole, New York.

Large, colourful textile sculptures hang on the white walls of a bright gallery. The organic, layered forms feature concentric rings of vibrant colours and abstract patterns.
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Holton Rower: Pour Paintings. Image courtesy The Hole, New York.

Two large, colourful abstract sculptures hang on a white gallery wall. The works feature concentric, swirling bands of vibrant colour that radiate from a central point.
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Holton Rower: Pour Paintings. Image courtesy The Hole, New York.

Three large, organic sculptures with swirling, multicoloured patterns hang on the white walls of a gallery. The pieces resemble sliced minerals or agate, with concentric rings of vibrant green, purple and red.
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Holton Rower: Pour Paintings. Image courtesy The Hole, New York.

Three large, colourful abstract paintings hang in a bright white gallery. Each work features concentric, swirling bands of colour that form a symmetrical, organic shape.
Above

Holton Rower: Pour Paintings. Image courtesy The Hole, New York.

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Bryony was It’s Nice That’s first ever intern and worked her way up to assistant online editor before moving on to pursue other interests in the summer of 2012.

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