Gordon Holbein

My earliest, best memories are colors, shapes, smells and sounds – the touch of my senses filling me with inexpressible experiences. Likewise, the most significant aspects of my life are difficult to put in words. So I draw and paint.

Art always was my favorite class from elementary school through college. In college I was exposed to the colors, forms and spontaneity of Abstract Expressionists like Rothko and Pollock. Immediately, I was energized by it all – especially the paradoxical interplay of both structure and chaos.

Seven years ago I returned to artistic expression as an outlet for surviving a painful period in my life. After many years in a career of paradox (business & economics together with Eastern thought), I am creating works that explore geometric structure along with spontaneous play in colors, hues and tones.

Abstraction gives me the opportunity to focus on color, form, and the dynamic balancing of structure and movement. It allows us to explore multiple perspectives and interpretive experiences. The feelings and meanings you draw from my works are yours, as you yourself experience them.

As I work toward a degree of automatism, I offer you freedom to come away with whatever suits you. I simply offer you a visua...

BA - Dartmouth College
MBA - Syracuse University
PhD - Penn State