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The expressive, colorful work incorporates a sense of beauty, erosion, invention and inversion through Tolbert’s use of unique painting techniques. Nightshades opens Saturday, May 19th with an artist reception from 3 – 5pm.

Although the work builds on a premise of color field painting, the technique Tolbert employs is far from traditional. He begins by thinning down acrylic paint which pools and flows on plastic sheeting. Once dry, the stains imprinted on the sheeting are applied to canvas using more wet paint as a binder. After allowing the plastic to dry on the canvas, Tolbert then removes …