Macyn Bolt was born in Fort Knox, Kentucky and grew up in Grand Rapids, Michigan. He received a BFA from Calvin College in 1979 and graduated with an MFA from
Syracuse University in 1981.

After returning to Michigan to teach painting and drawing for four years, he moved to
Brooklyn, New York where he has lived and worked since 1985. In 1995 Bolt started to
divide his time between New York and rural Pennsylvania, where he and his wife,
Carolyn Owsianik Bolt, recently completed building a new home and studio.

Bolt has pursued a variety of interests in painting over the years, always asking new
questions of the medium and its relationship to the viewer. Early work addressed issues of abstract space and form, while integrating elements of architecture, scientific diagrams and printed text into the compositional mix. More recently his interest in combining the "stuff of representation" that Bolt finds in various and random print and internet sources with the vocabulary of abstract painting have resulted in a series of mixed media paintings entitled, Cambiata Figures.

"It is my interest that a work grow out of a synthesis between the vocabulary of color and form inherent to abstract painting and the vocabulary of other types of representative
documentation, " says Bolt. "It' s not so much a critique of either, but a hope of finding some sort of poetry in the clash."

Bolt's work has been exhibited nationally, including at the Corcoran Gallery in Washington D.C., The Newark Museum of Art in New Jersey, The Grand Rapids Art Museum in Michigan and recently at I-Space in Chicago, and the Kim Foster Gallery in New York. His work is represented in numerous private, public and corporate collections, which include the Blanton Museum of Art (Austin, Texas), The Newark Museum (Newark, New Jersey), JP Morgan Chase Bank (New York and Los Angeles) and Progressive Companies (Mayfield Heights, Ohio ).