Dennis Hollingsworth
dal 9/10/2003 al 15/11/2003
Segnalato da
9/10/2003
Dennis Hollingsworth
Chac Mool Gallery, Hollywood
The works are tempered by a regard for the spontaneous human drive to represent the world. These questions, the perception of what we see as representation and how that becomes abstract, are essential to Hollingsworth's works. Gestural and minimalist and simultaneously non-gestural and non-minimalist, Hollingsworth's art defies the simple categories and taxonomies of contemporary critical language.
Chac Mool Gallery is pleased to announce an exhibition of new paintings by
Dennis Hollingsworth. The artist will be present at the opening, on
Friday October 10th, from 6:00 to 9:00 in the evening and the show will
run through November 15th, 2003. In his second exhibition at Chac Mool
Gallery, Hollingsworth continues to explore the gestural abstraction
tradition.
His focus lies in simultaneously hiding, and exposing and overlapping the
paint. Wet paint and wet brush, screed or palette knife, his tools are
key factors in determining the concept of his work. In his own words,
Hollingsworth 'knocks the paint in a big slatherfest and stomps all around
until it's done,' dragging, flinging, squeezing, throwing, and dropping
paint onto the canvas. The works are about paint as material for its own
sake. Rectilinear and grounded, these works are energetic with color and
form, yet maintain their purity, never giving way to self-conscious mud or
color mixture.
The abstract inventiveness of these works lie in the manner in which the
lines and colors of these paintings enter into a new language, a new
territory, a space which confronts the representational with the abstract.
The works are tempered by a regard for the spontaneous human drive to
represent the world. These questions, the perception of what we see as
representation and how that becomes abstract, are essential to
Hollingsworth's works. Gestural and minimalist and simultaneously
non-gestural and non-minimalist, Hollingsworth's art defies the simple
categories and taxonomies of contemporary critical language.
Chac Mool Gallery is located in West Hollywood, at 8920 Melrose Avenue (at
Almont Drive). The Gallery is open Tuesday through Friday, 10am to 6pm
and Saturday from 11am to 5pm and by appointment. For further
information, please contact the Gallery at 310.550.6792.
In the image: 'Groans Mingled with Shouts', oil on linen on wood panels, 64 x 72", 2000.
Artist's Reception: Friday, October 10, 2003 6 to 9pm
Chac Mool Gallery
8920 Melrose Avenue, West Hollywood, 90069
Phone 310.550.6792 Fax 310.550.6872