Influenced in part by color-field painting, Isabel Bolivar pares down the details of her landscapes to essential colors and forms in order to re-imagine them as powerful and evocative studies of light interacting with structure. Whether presenting an urban street or a vista from nature, her brightly colored, lush imagery is filled with light that permeates the air and resides in the surfaces of her structures and forms. Cities regain their beauty through her paintings, as her work reveals the geometric fundamentals of streets and landscapes. We see them afresh through her focus on the primary tones and arrays that are the building blocks of our perception and the heart of our visual pleasure. Isabel often chooses colors and locales that suggest sand, rock or the tropics, but even if her landscapes are not physically tropical or exotic, there is a powerful feeling of heat and light in her work, as well as weathered, venerable structures, which she portrays as complex, multilayered surfaces with varying degrees of shading.

This focus, coupled with her intense commitment to rich coloration, makes her work a series of complex explorations of the evocative powers of the canvas. Isabel Bolivar’s paintings capture moments in time and space and she boldly brings them forth with commitment and daring.

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