Polina Berlin Gallery is pleased to present Dust Collector, an exhibition of new paintings by Casey Bolding, opening Wednesday, November 18. This marks the artist's third solo presentation with the gallery and inaugurates its new SoHo location at 456 Broadway.

Continuing his exploration of entropy in the landscape, Bolding turns his signature tactile surfaces into a site for tenderness in this new body of work. Here, figures are often seen in pairs: a couple of friends wandering in wheat fields, two lovers kissing, children caught in the banal joy of a ballgame. Layered with nostalgia, and contending with the passage of time, Bolding’s subjects are captured in various liminal states of vulnerability, sometimes subsumed by his patinated grounds, other times rushing to the picture plane’s fore. In this collection of paintings, Bolding's compositions play host to striking moments of intimacy, and the subject-author relationship takes on an immediacy that is at once personal and familiar.

Is the rest of the world low frequency or is New York just turned up to a higher pitch they say New York the pencil sharpener keeps you sharp but it grinds you down How to penetrate an autumn day. Slide right in. Caducity : the quality of being transitory or perishable - time slips away - the Romans had theme parks dedicated to ruins, an eternal fascination with what has gone and can never be grasped again, artists have been obsessed with time since time, the scratches on cave drawings that in a flickering candle give the illusion of motion to the horses and mammoth rendered there- Monet with 4 easels set up around the same haystack, painting it from 9-10 am, 3-4 pm, day after day - but what like now can we call time, which since the splitting of the atom time has accelerated, and since 2012 with the large atom collider working overtime has maybe doubled or quintupled into sects (was it Bernstein or Berenstein bears?)- competing beams of time- is art really a superior form of memory- collective or personal ?

In the past (impenetrable, just memory) Casey and I roamed decaying zones, explored abandoned buildings, factories in Jersey (remember Trenton makes and the world takes? Well the world took too much and now the city lies in ruins, just a memory like you and me) and in those abandoned buildings you see the real powerful like effect of time, the seven peeling layers of lead paint on old brick, or in the offices above the shop floor the scraped and faded layers of wallpaper (those roses, that sheet in which she embroidered fantails once) of crumbling plaster and lathe- the edges of his canvases are this lathe- and the whole buildings just must have seeped into him because that’s what these pieces are is like little odes to time - do you have to spend ten years learning to recreate the effects of weathering, like really and chemically and technically wrenched form the guts time- just to give a guy a glimpse of what he’s missing, you? Maybe

Casey Bolding (b. 1987, Denver, CO) lives and works in Brooklyn, New York. His work has been included in exhibitions at Lismore Castle Arts, Lismore, IE (2026); Karma, Los Angeles (2026); Polina Berlin Gallery, New York (2026, 2025, 2024); Villa Magdalena, Madrid (2025); Karma, Thomaston, ME (2025); Pond Society, Shanghai (2025); Jack Siebert Projects, Los Angeles (2025); Shoot the Lobster, New York (2023); Mamoth, London (2022); and 1969 Gallery, New York (2019).

Born

• Denver, Colorado, 1987. Lives and works in Brooklyn, NY

One-Person Exhibitions

• 2026 Dust collector, Polina Berlin Gallery, New York, NY (11/18/26-1/16/27)
  Bloodstream, Karma, Los Angeles, CA (2/21-4/11)

• 2025 Pasaia, Villa Magdalena, Madrid, ES (10/24-11/9)
  Pocketknife, Polina Berlin Gallery, New York, NY (5/5-6/28)

• 2024 The river on top of your head, Polina Berlin Gallery, New York, NY (5/7-6/1)

Selected Group Exhibitions

• 2026 American Landscape Summer Show Extravaganza!, Andrew Edlin Gallery, New York, NY (7/1-8/14)
  Salon, Lismore Castle Arts, Lismore, IE (4/25-10/25)

• 2025 Urban Dwellers, LVH Art, London, UK (10/13-10-19)
  A Certain Form of Hell, Karma, Thomaston, ME (7/20-8/31)
  Another Man’s Treasure, Mariposa Gallery, Alderfer’s Antiques, Aspen, CO (7/10-8/3)
  That’s Not All, Folks (curated by Liliana Gao), Pond Society, Shanghai, CN (4/4-5/10)
  Modéle Vivant (curated by Jack Siebert), Los Angeles, CA (2/17–2/22)

• 2024 Scotopia (curated by Hugo Alcantara in collaboration with The MENAEA Collection), CABIN, New York, NY (10/25-11/8)
  It just has to wear out, Wshód, New York, NY (4/16-4/20)
  [ahr-kahyv], DEPA Archive, Ghent, BE (5/16-15/5)
  A Gentle Cruise, JVDW Gallery, Düsseldorf, DE, (2/2-3/16)
  Emotional Intelligence II, Polina Berlin Gallery, New York, NY (2/22-3/27)

• 2023 THE SAME ROOM, Shoot the Lobster, New York, NY (12/2/23-1/13/24)

• 2022 Color of Pomegranates, Mamoth, London, UK (6/2-7/22)

• 2019 Routine Malfunction, 1969 Gallery, New York, NY (11/1-11/10)
  all for you (curated by Pat Philips), Catinca Tabacaru, New York, NY (1/11-2/10)

• 2018 Us (curated by David Ai Wang), Ed. Varie, New York, NY (6/28-7/22)

• 2016 30 under 30ish, Victori + MO, Brooklyn, NY (7/8-7/31)

Awards, Fellowships and Residencies

• 2025 Residency, Villa Magdalena, San Sebastian, ES
  Residency, Castel Caramel, Castillon, FR