Location: The Solarium at The Colony Hotel, 155 Hammon Ave, Palm Beach, FL33480
Contact: caroline@voltzclarke.com | 917.292.6921

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The Colony HOTEL and Voltz Clarke Gallery are pleased to present IN THE PINK, a group exhibition.

Love and violence, seduction and innocence, finery and garishness, the masculine and the feminine; the color pink has always represented fascinating contradictions. The color's turbulent history is ushered into the present-day meaning according to Oxford Languages ‘in very good health and spirits’ at The Solarium at The Colony through a selection of works by Christina Burch, Field Kallop, Lucy Soni, Khalilah Birdsong, and Jason Trotter. The selected paintings for IN THE PINK invite viewers this season to experience pink in all its dimensions; from soft, subtle hues to bold, vibrant statements. Abstract geometries engage with familiar florals and flesh tones, showcasing pink's dynamic role in representation. Field Kallop’s sharp forms in shades of dusty rose and coral juxtapose the brilliantly deep magenta peonies in Christina Burch's canvases. Set against the backdrop of Palm Beach's pastel sunsets and plastic flamingos, the Colony Hotel provides the perfect address for this vibrant exhibition.

The Colony Palm Beach | Voltz Clarke Gallery Collaboration invites hotel guests, visitors, and locals alike to explore a rotating selection of fine art at the iconic property steps from Worth Avenue and the Atlantic Ocean. As guardians of a treasured icon, The Colony Palm Beach faithfully preserves its legacy of gracious hospitality while ensuring continued relevance to a new generation of modern, well-traveled and discerning guests. The 93 room property offers unique, curated experiences for guests of all ages delivered with best-in-class ultra boutique service. Much more than a hotel, The Colony is a state of mind – a place to connect meaningfully and authentically with one of the world’s most storied destinations, steps from both Worth Avenue and the Atlantic Ocean. Aware of The Colony’s singular place in the hearts of long-time Palm Beachers, the hotel is dedicated to maintaining a rich tradition of culinary excellence and sophisticated entertainment in a vibrant social setting that is both welcoming and refreshingly unpretentious.

Selected Works

Opening reception: September 12, 2024
Location: 195 Chrystie Street, NYC 10002
Hours: Monday – Friday, 10 am – 6 pm, Saturday 12-5 pm & Sunday by appointment
Contact: caroline@voltzclarke.com | 917.292.6921

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Voltz Clarke Gallery is pleased to present Eternal Current, an exhibition of new paintings by New York artist Field Kallop. Kallop’s third solo show with the gallery will feature a dozen works that Kallop has created during the past two years, including several at a new, larger scale for the artist.

Kallop’s luminous, saturated paintings claim space in the wide-open field of geometric abstraction, across a terrain reaching from ancient sacred geometries to the hard edges of color theory. The works in Eternal Current gesture simultaneously toward scientific illustration, mystical visions, and color field painting. They invite us to reconsider the dichotomy between science and spiritualism: each is a quest to understand that which we can’t observe, and to image the unseen. So to ask whether Kallop’s paintings are rooted in transcendentalism or mathematics, in color theory or in tantra, we can simply answer: yes.

Kallop always begins her compositions with a grid, over which she lays a second-order set of geometries: circles, arcs, waves, and rays. These shapes are carefully drawn in a diagrammatic process. But within a system governed by self-imposed rules, Kallop finds room for painterly incident and idiosyncrasy: a wavering human hand is always detectable just beyond the relentless precision of her work. Her simplified forms are rich with symbolic potential, but the paintings foreground the perceptual possibilities of painting.

Kallop uses acrylic paint in highly diluted washes with a diffuse quality almost like watercolor. This method allows her to paint in multiple, diaphanous layers, suspending particles of pigment in glazes to give each color depth and dimension. Sometimes the paint is left translucent enough that the raw canvas shows through beneath it, and sometimes it’s built up in so many layers that it practically glows. Her palette is prismatic, using the colors of pure light across the visible spectrum.

In Cosmic Rhythm (II), each square of a grid is divided diagonally, giving each square the appearance of a folded and unfolded piece of paper. This grid makes up a color spectrum - not a mere color chart, but a vibrating, pulsating field of light. Punctuating this grid are a number of half-circles, alternating on either side of diagonal axes. These half-moon forms call to mind planetary rotations and an unseen order inherent in the natural world.

In Deep Transit, a large circle touches each of the four sides of the canvas, either filling the picture or opening a portal within it. A vertical stack of circles makes a column down the painting’s center, while shimmering rays radiate out from either side. Tiny white dots bifurcate the central form and

create an inner circle – suggesting data markers on a chart, or points on a map. Like much of Kallop’s work, the painting asks both to be read like a cypher and experienced like a phenomenon.

The title Eternal Current is taken from poet Rainer Maria Rilke’s First Elegy. Elsewhere in the Elegy, Rilke exclaims: “how little at home we are in the interpreted world”: a fitting prompt to experience these dazzling, mysterious paintings on their own terms.

— Mamie Tinkler, 2024

Kallop received her Master of Fine Arts from The Rhode Island School of Design in 2011, and her Bachelor of Arts from Princeton University in 2004. A recipient of multiple awards and residencies, Kallop has been an Artist in Residence at The Andy Warhol Preserve in Montauk, NY, and has exhibited widely, most notably at the Institute of Contemporary Art in Philadelphia, PA. A New York native, Kallop currently lives and works in downtown Manhattan.

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Field Kallop – Marfa Invitational

Fair Dates: Thursday, April 22nd, through Sunday, April 25th, 2021
Location: Saint George Hall, 113 E El Paso St, Marfa, TX 79843
Hours: Thursday, 5 – 8 PM, Friday & Saturday, 11 – 5 PM, Sunday 10 – 1 PM
Contact Info: juliette@voltzclarke.com, 917.292.6921, voltzclarke.com

Voltz Clarke Gallery is pleased to present Field Kallop at Marfa Invitational, an international contemporary art fair situated in the far west Texas town of Marfa. The exhibition will be on view from April 22nd through April 25th, 2021at Marfa Projects, a new section of the fair highlighting emerging artists located at 217 E. San Antonio Street.

In her recent, abstract paintings, Kallop continues her exploration of the forms and patterns that are present everywhere in the cosmos. Using acrylic paint on canvas, she weaves together grid structures and curvilinear shapes to create dynamic compositions that reference natural rhythms and astronomical movements. As she works, Kallop applies countless layers of thinned paint that overlap and blend together, generating a vibrant and luminous palette. Her delicate scrims of color, as well as her intricate brushwork, further enhance these mesmerizing pictorial spaces. Kallop’s geometric arrangements are at once familiar and mysterious, evoking the silent order inherent in the world around us and the universe beyond.

Kallop’s paintings reveal her long-standing interest in math and science, as well as her affection for a wide range of artistic traditions such as tantra drawing, textile practices and modernist painting. She has been particularly inspired by several female artists of the 19th and 20th centuries who lived and worked in the desert, including Agnes Martin, Georgia O’Keeffe and Agnes Pelton. Like them, Kallop attempts to draw her viewer deeply into her paintings, evoking a sense of meditative stillness. We are thrilled to present this new body of work in Marfa, as these paintings seem to be in dialogue with the calm expansiveness and quiet wonder of the desert landscape.

Field Kallop (b. 1982) was born and raised in New York City, where she currently lives and works. She received her MFA with honors from The Rhode Island School of Design in 2011 and her BA from Princeton University in 2004. A recipient of multiple awards and residencies, she was most recently Artist in Residence at The Andy Warhol Preserve in Montauk, NY. Kallop has exhibited widely at museums and galleries across the US.

Opening Reception: Wednesday, May 8th from 6–8 pm
Gallery Location: 141 East 62nd Street, 2nd floor, New York, NY 10065
Hours:  Monday – Friday, 10 am–6 pm, Saturday by appointment
Contact Info: saraht@voltzclarke.com, 212.933.0291, voltzclarke.com

Voltz Clarke Gallery is pleased to present Reflections on Order, the gallery’s first solo exhibition with New York based artist Field Kallop. The exhibition will be on view from May 8 through July 26, 2019, with an opening reception on Wednesday, May 8 from 6-8pm.

Kallop’s recent, abstract paintings call to mind ancient cosmologies and sacred geometries; they are systematic and precise, harmonious and balanced. This significant body of new works reveals Kallop’s long-standing interest in math and science, as well as her affection for a wide range of artistic traditions such as modernist painting, tantra drawing and textile practices.

To begin her compositions, Kallop creates a colorful grid using acrylic paint on canvas. She then works into this structure, adding various forms and patterns. While the rigid grid beneath recalls navigational charts and mathematical diagrams, the softer, often curvilinear forms on the surface reference the rhythms of nature: global rotations, planetary orbits, tidal systems. The vivid colors, complex patterns and dynamic interaction between background and foreground draw the viewer deeply into these paintings.

The geometric arrangements that populate Kallop’s works are at once familiar and mysterious, evoking the order that is present everywhere in the cosmos. Further, many of the paintings’ titles — Ancient Calendar, Lunar Rhythm, The Secret Earth — are drawn from fragments of poetry and scientific treatises that further reflect our inherent ties to our planet. Kallop invites her viewer to contemplate one’s place in the universe, offering a moment of quiet introspection. Reflections on Order is an eloquent inquiry into the connections between art, nature and spirituality.

Kallop received her Master of Fine Arts, with honors, from The Rhode Island School of Design in 2011, and her Bachelor of Arts from Princeton University in 2004. She has exhibited widely, most notably at the Institute of Contemporary Art in Philadelphia, PA. A recipient of multiple awards and residencies, Kallop was most recently Artist in Residence at The Andy Warhol Preserve in Montauk, NY. A New York native, Kallop currently lives and works in downtown Manhattan.