Trine Bumiller : The Blue Hour

Robischon Gallery presents new paintings by Colorado artist Trine Bumiller featuring works from her most recent series, "The Blue Hour." Long recognized as one of Colorado's leading abstract painters, Trine Bumiller maintains her signature approach to painting revealing a reinvigorated eye toward an increased depth of layering and a renewed sense of light. Attentive to forms found in nature such as shimmering river stones, a reflecting full moon and vibrant dogwood stems, Bumiller's nuanced subject matter is made dynamic when coupled with her luminous and varied palette. Each work is composed of multiple and variously-sized canvases uniquely combined to reinforce the artist's visual and thematic shifts. Architectural or geometric elements positioned amidst Bumiller's natural forms overtly address themes pertaining to order and the organic while the paint itself connects and alludes to states of form and formlessness.

The artist's newest paintings explore a specific realm of light offering subtle but unexpected shifts of hue to reveal an ethereal and complex world. This contemplative series of paintings focuses its attention on the inexorable "blue hour" – the cyclical transition times of each day that are neither total darkness nor full daylight. Bumiller's paintings further illuminate the qualities of twilight and offer it as emblematic of renewal in both unstated potential and internal reflection. Through the application of multiple layers of oil pigment and glazing, the artist's meditative painting surfaces become rich in color and luminous. Bumiller's chosen natural elements such as leafless tree limbs and twigs that await the next growing season gracefully bisect the blue and blue- green grounds with superimposed contrasting elements of white and red. While the intricate patterns engage and opposing colors ignite, it is the blue connective space between –a kind of mercurial memory, the passage of time and the promise of renewed growth – that conveys the essence of "The Blue Hour."

Trine Bumiller received her B.F.A. from the Rhode Island School of Design. Bumiller's paintings have been extensively exhibited in New York, the Mountain states region and the Southwestern U.S. She has been the recipient of numerous awards including a Co-Visions award from the Colorado Council on the Arts, an Arts Innovation award from the Colorado Federation for the Arts and was given both a Rocky Mountain Women's Institute residency and a Yaddo Residency from Saratoga Springs, New York.