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Overview
Tolman works in a variety of mediums including drawing in pencil and caran d’ache, and painting with acrylic, collage and mixed medias on canvas or paper. These are abstract works that primarily are influenced by the natural world and are often informed by a sense of place.
Born in Detroit, Michigan in 1949, Kevin Tolman attended classes at the Detroit Institute of Arts and Cass Tech as a youth, and he is a graduate of the Art School of the Society of Arts and Crafts, in Detroit. In 1981 he moved to the Ramah Navajo Reservation in western New Mexico. Feeling at home in the southwest, he later settled in the Duranes area of Albuquerque, building an adobe house and studio in 1987. In 1990 he spent a year painting in Arraiolos, a small hill town in central Portugal, and in the years since he has continued to work when traveling in Europe, Mexico, South America, and most recently as an Artist in Residence with the Obras Foundation in Portugal.
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Works
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Alignment (With Stars) II
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Alignment Azul
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Alignments / Dawn Chorus
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Alignments / Quarter Moon
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Alinhamento / Pedras
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Alinhamento / Pedras (Commission)
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Balancing Act / Primavera II
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By Night
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Circo de Primavera III
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Dawn Invention IV
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Dawn Invention V
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Dawn Invention VI
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Dawn Inventions
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Floral / Response
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Hidden Stone / Night
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Hidden Stone / Noite
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Inverno
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Outono
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Praça (Com Anta)
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Primavera
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Puerta / Sacromonte
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Solstício de Verão
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Standing Still (The Circle)
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Tempo Para Hoje
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Verão
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Vernal Equinox
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With Me Now (Realignment)
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Ziggurat Vermelho
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Cloud of Birds / Red Pivot
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Above and Below (Equinox)
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Solstício de Inverno
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Alignment (With Stars)
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Pedras / Equinócio III
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Comigo Agora
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Remnants / Lisboa
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Lunar Phases / Alentejo II
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Albacin / Meander
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Equilibrium / Dawn Chorus
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Solar Phases
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The Four Directions / Night
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Call and Response
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Metamorphosis (Vernal Equinox)
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Return / Spell
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Cromeleque Dos Alemendres
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Chaco Canyon Short Cut II
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À Noite
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Recuerdo de Andalucia
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Equinox Shadow / The Four Directions
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Lunar Phases / Chaco Canyon
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Pedras / Equinócio II
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Summer Song Side Show
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Under the Sun
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Pedras / Equinócio
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Aqua / Paths
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Standing Stones
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Daybreak / Chaco
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À Noite (Cromleque dos Almendres)
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Season of Seeds II
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Submerge
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Canto / Verao
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Build Up
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Midsummer Pathways
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Murmuration
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Evening Alignments
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Palácete de Mármore
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Hidden Garden
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Lunar Phases / Alentejo
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The Sound of the Full Moon
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O Alentejo I
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O Alentejo II
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O Alentejo III
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Sound Bite / Daylight
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Gitana
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Fly By / For Spring
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Tipping Point / Midsummer Invention
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Balancing Act (Morning Invention)
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Pedras Com Névoa II
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Listening / Evening Alignment
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Equinox With Shadow
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Cantilever / Cuenca
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Canto / Circo Novo
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Return (The Turning Point)
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Near Árraiolos (Alentejana)
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Splash
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Viagem Azul
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Side Step
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Night and Day
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Return (In the Balance)
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Spring Song
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Remanant / Pedras
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Equinox / Standing Stone
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A Song for Summer
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Pedras Em Névoa
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Névoa
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Flux (Garden)
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Standing Stones - Full Moon
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Marker / Summer Solstice
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Equilibrium (Pedras)
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Seed Pods Sing Song
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Drift / Rising II
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Surface Circus / Dusk
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Bird Song (Cite)
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The Navigator
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Fuente Equinox
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Garden Chatter Chart
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Big Top With Topsy
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Spring
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Winter
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Solstice Circus
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The Haywain / Early Summer
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Pedras Com Nevoeiro , 2021
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Summers Circus
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Uma Historia de Viagens
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Hidden Aspect - Colorado River
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Nesting Instinct
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Apparatus for the Sun (and It's Spots)
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Autumnal Shift
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Gigue (For J.S. Bach)
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Up Stream / Grand Canyon
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Scatter/Drift
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The Conjouror's Return
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Winter Circus
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Carnaval Vermelho
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Primavera / Moonlight
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Listen / Late Summer
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Spring
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Autumn
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Alentejano (Near Arraiolos), 2014
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Metamorphic Blue II
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Una Historia con Pássaros e Flores
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Festa / Arraiolos
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Tableau / Morning Inventions
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Canal St Martin / Morning Invention
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Sleeping / Flotilla
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Spill (Acequia Song)
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Parade / Summer Sound II
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Stone (Cromeleque de Alemendres)
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That Time in the Garden
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O Alentejo / Verão I
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Praza Das Praterias
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Turning Point (Seed Time)
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Turn About (Late Autumn)
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Change of Weather / Autumn
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Criss Cross / Evening
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First Flutter / Metamorphosis
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Bridging the Gap II
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Listening / Seed Pod Sweet Talk
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Albaicin / Meander II
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Portal / Bloom
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Standing Stone at Night / the Four Directions
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Phases of the Moon (Chaco Canyon)
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Tirso De Molina / Madrid II
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Red Ziggurat
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Circo Novo (Equinox)
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Circo Novo / Equinox
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One Night
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The Sun and Its Spots
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Daydream for a Night Owl
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Seeds Sleep Where Glaciers Move
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Song of Summer (Alentejo)
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Bounce Back
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Jardines del Alcazar / Cordoba
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Circus of Seeds / For H. Bosch
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The Voyage
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Window / Autumnal Aspect
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Sound of Dusk
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Juggle
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Circo Vermelho
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Baixo Alentejo, 2019
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Song / Sideways II
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Quai De Valmy / Late Autumn
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Sunrise Markers / In the Kingdom of Seeds
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Lookup
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O Sol Alentejana (with Sun Spots)
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Porta IV
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A Historia Da Fruta
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O Alentejo / Verão III
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L'Équilibre
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La Fete
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Blue Sky River
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Verão / Alentejo
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Ecoute
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O Navegador / O Solsticio
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Bluebirds
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Early Winter (Through the Trees)
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Alentejano
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Buzz (Post Solstice)
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Midnight Flowering / Alhambra
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La Espera / Cordoba
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Vernal Equinox / Change of Weather
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Festas / O Jardim das Delicias 1
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Historia / Dom Afonso Henriques
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Canyon Song / See Saw
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Pedras / Alentejo
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Late Summer
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Autumn
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Summer
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Winter
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Estremoz / Encima
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From Above
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Novo Circo Vermelho, 2019
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O Solsticio / Alentejo
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Navegador Vermelho
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Box of Red
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Porta / New World
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Historia com Nuvem
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Autumnal Equinox/ The Four Directions
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Pequeno Circo III
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Pequeno Circo II
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Pequeno Circo I
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Chaco Canyon (Phases of the Moon), 2021
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Taberna - Cuenca
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Standing Stones (In Red)
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Standing Stone
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Standing Stone - Night
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Plaza - Andalucía
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Pedra - Lua Cheia
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Song - Sideways
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Night Sky - Under Trees
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After Midnight Apparatus
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Cuenca - Taberna
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Behind a Curtain (Red Object)
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Midnight Apparatus
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Pivotal Point / Autumn
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Circus/Summer
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Surface Circus
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Seed Time Unfolding II
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Video
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Kevin Tolman: 2020 Solo Exhibition | Second Nature
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Kevin Tolman: Equilibrium
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Kevin Tolman: Abstract Painter | Nüart Gallery | Santa Fe, NM
'It is my belief that painting can be a poetic way of reasoning on a two-dimensional surface. It is certainly my best voice. The paintings are bent to my will...
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Biography
"It is my belief that painting can be a poetic way of reasoning on a two-dimensional surface. It is certainly my best voice. The paintings are bent to my will in a sort of dance, a balancing act between where I think a piece can go and where the piece will lead me, and it seems that a significant part of this process is allowing myself to be less in control. I think I am trying very hard to not limit myself, persistently making an effort to encourage accident, and to let the work both change and evolve. This means that I create paintings that spring from, essentially, a continual uncertainty. But, this also allows for the process to be interesting and invigorating while I am working." — Kevin Tolman
Tolman works in a variety of mediums including drawing in pencil and caran d’ache, and painting with acrylic, collage and mixed medias on canvas or paper. These are abstract works that primarily are influenced by the natural world and are often informed by a sense of place.
Born in Detroit, Michigan in 1949, Kevin Tolman attended classes at the Detroit Institute of Arts and Cass Tech as a youth, and he is a graduate of the Art School of the Society of Arts and Crafts, in Detroit. In 1981 he moved to the Ramah Navajo Reservation in western New Mexico. Feeling at home in the southwest, he later settled in the Duranes area of Albuquerque, building an adobe house and studio in 1987. In 1990 he spent a year painting in Arraiolos, a small hill town in central Portugal, and in the years since he has continued to work when traveling in Europe, Mexico, South America, and most recently as an Artist in Residence with the Obras Foundation in Portugal.
Kevin Tolman has been painting for over five decades, and exhibiting his work in many galleries, museums, and universities across the United States where his paintings are included in a large number of private, corporate, and public collections. His work has also been exhibited internationally in Canada, Mexico, Germany, France, England, and in Portugal. A Tolman canvas is included in the Albuquerque Museum’s permanent collection, and his work now hangs in the collections of the New Mexico State Capitol, and the University of New Mexico. Recently a large canvas was purchased by the city for installation in the Albuquerque Convention Center. His work is also in the Tyson Collection, along with Boston Scientific.
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Exhibitions
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Santa Fe | Kevin Tolman
Alignments 28 Jun - 20 Jul 2024"Alignments" is a solo exhibition with new work by artist Kevin Tolman. In this exhibition, Tolman creates his abstract work employing a variety of mediums to invite viewers on a contemplative voyage through the intersections of celestial bodies, earthly landmarks, and the human spirit. Through this collection of paintings, audiences can explore the intrinsic connections between order, structure, and the sacred.Read more -
Grand Opening | Nüart Gallery | Santa Monica | "In Principio"
2 - 30 Mar 2024Nüart Gallery proudly announces its inaugural exhibition at their newest outpost located at Bergamot Station in Santa Monica with a group show of select paintings. The exhibition will run from...Read more -
R-E-D | 2024
A Group Exhibition 9 - 25 Feb 2024Nüart Gallery is thrilled to announce "R-E-D," our annual Valentine's Day exhibition featuring a curated collection of work celebrating the color red and its proximity to love and passion. .Read more
In art, music, and literature, love has always been one of the major engines of human creativity. In celebration of love, romance, and the mysterious longings of the heart, "R-E-D" features a diverse collection of artworks filled with romance for our annual Valentine's Day exhibition. Each work offers a distinct perspective on the color red and its unmistakable relationship with human desire and life itself. -
Winter Selections | 2024
A Group Exhibition 12 - 28 Jan 2024Nüart Gallery is pleased to present Winter Selections, our annual exhibition featuring a curation of our artists whose abstract and figurative work celebrate a constrained winter palette. The exhibition will open on January 12th and through January 28th, 2024.Read more -
Kevin Tolman
Here + Now 9 - 25 Jun 2023In “Here & Now” Kevin Tolman presents his newest mixed media paintings, a collection of bold, energetic abstractions where immersed precision meets a governing improvisation in explorative, nature versed compositions. Bounded between refreshing, serene palettes and more striking figuration and robust hues, an expanse of color and approach solidifies into a visual environment unmistakably his own. Through an intentionally welcoming mindfulness of the present moment, these resonant color fields give way to studied organic forms curiously familiar, where time is unhurried and instead patiently deliberate. By way of thorough observation and intuition while painting, Tolman refines his compositional focus by relinquishing control and letting each element cohesively settle in and transform into an ever unfolding vision.Read more -
R-E-D
A Group Exhibition 10 - 19 Feb 2023Nüart Gallery is excited to announce the opening of ' R-E-D,' a Valentine's Day exhibition featuring a curated collection of paintings that celebrate the color red and its connection to...Read more -
Winter Selections
A Group Exhibition 20 Jan - 5 Feb 2023We’re excited to share our annual exhibition Winter Selections, featuring a curation of our artists whose abstract and figurative work celebrate a constrained winter palette . The minimalist environment of...Read more -
Kevin Tolman + Anne Kaferle
Distillations 17 Jun - 3 Jul 2022Nüart Gallery’s current two-person exhibition, Distillations , features new works by painters Kevin Tolman and Anne Kaferle. In this new body of work, both artists’ paintings are directly and indirectly...Read more -
Red Show
The Color of Love 11 - 25 Feb 2022A selection of works by our artists, reflecting their interpretations of one of the most celebrated human emotions – love. We invite you to join us in celebrating one of the most powerful colors of the spectrum.Read more -
Winter Selections
A Group Exhibition 24 Jan - 6 Feb 2022Nüart Gallery is pleased to present Winter Selections, an exhibition featuring a curation of our artists whose abstract and figurative work celebrate a constrained winter palette. The minimalist environment of...Read more -
Abstractions 2021
19 Nov - 12 Dec 2021Featuring Work by Beverly Kedzior, Emilio Lobato, Joseph Ostraff, Willy Bo Richardson + Judy WoodsRead more -
Kevin Tolman
Equilibrium 11 - 27 Jun 2021Nüart Gallery presents “ Equilibrium , ' a solo exhibition of new work by Kevin Tolman . The exhibition will run June 11 th through June 27 th 2021 with...Read more -
Winter Inspirations
A Group Exhibition 29 Jan - 7 Feb 2021Nüart Gallery presents Winter Inspirations, a group exhibition of paintings by Nüart Gallery artists. The exhibition will run January 29th through February 7th, 2020. We're celebrating the season of the...Read more -
Kevin Tolman
Second Nature 15 - 31 May 2020Nüart Gallery presents, “ Second Nature ' a solo exhibition of new work by Kevin Tolman . The exhibition will run May 15 th through May 31 st 2020, with...Read more -
Kevin Tolman
Sense of Place 19 Jul - 4 Aug 2019The exhibition “Sense of Place,” is comprised of paintings that are both inspired by real places, and also become places themselves that the viewer is invited to explore and inhabit.Read more -
Kevin Tolman
Cyclical Nature 24 Aug - 9 Sep 2018Poetic and earthy, Kevin Tolman’s mixed-media paintings are both lively and refined. Incorporating a variety of media including acrylic paint, pencil, caran d’ache, and collage, Tolman creates abstract works evocative of the natural world and grounded in a strong sense of place.Read more
The exhibition, “Cyclical Nature,” consists of a new body of Kevin Tolman’s mixed-media paintings. Starting with sophisticated organic color fields, the artist activates his paintings with hoops, dashes, exes, loops, and specks. Tolman works improvisationally, riffing with his materials, the season, and his environment.
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