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Dennis HOLLINGSWORTH
“In the Spring and early Fall of 2019, I painted a series of paintings which commemorated the fifty year anniversary of the moment I decided to become an artist. In 1969, I was thirteen years old and my family was traveling to Australia via Europe, the Mideast , India, Thailand and the Philippines. I was born in Madrid and although I am half English and half Malaysian, Spain had always held my imagination in thrall. During that voyage, we lingered in Madrid and it was then that I had visited the Prado for the first time. Prior to that moment, I was already in love with art, copiously drawing and copying from the illustrations of the history books that I could find. Finally, I could see the works that I had only known in reproduction. It was at that moment, when I stood in front of Goya’s “Saturn Devouring his Children”, that I was subsumed in something like a mystical experience. This was the exact moment in which I had realized and determined my destiny.
Dennis Hollingsworth gained international recognition in the 1990s by adding sculptural forms of oil painting to raw canvas, making a statement about the rebirth of painting in a prolonged period in which ordinary intellectuals claimed that painting was dead. For more than twenty years, he has been searching for the extent of embodied painting. Within the limits of impasto’s superficial tension, his recombinant form lexicon involving pungent balls, stamps, stomps, silences, prints, and flowering paint peels.
“In the Spring and early Fall of 2019, I painted a series of paintings which commemorated the fiftieth anniversary of the moment I decided to become an artist. In 1969, I was thirteen years old and my family was traveling to Australia via Europe, the Mideast , India, Thailand and the Philippines. I was born in Madrid and although I am half Anglo and half Malaysian, Spain had always held my imagination in thrall. During that voyage, we lingered in Madrid and it was then that I had visited the Prado for the first time. Prior to that moment, I was already in love with art, copiously drawing and copying from the illustrations of the history books that I could find. Finally, I could see the works that I had only known in reproduction. It was at that moment, when I stood in front of Goya’s “Saturn Devouring his Children”, that I was subsumed in something like a mystical experience. This was the exact moment in which I had realized and determined my destiny. Approaching the works in commemoration, I wanted to simplify the palette of colors in order to make vivid the embodiment of the physical form of impasto paint that had animated my life project as a painter for the past 24 years. Painting in monochrome achieved this goal. Laying a thick bed of paint onto the surface of the canvas and moving my handmade tools into it became something more like drawing in paint. Of course, the subjects were selections from the Prado’s collection that I had remembered from that visit fifty years ago. For several years up until that point, I was relying on masking to increase the intensity of the form of physical paint that I was painting with. I wanted to dial down the reliance on masking but not eliminate it altogether. The solution at that time was to mask a framing fringe at the edges of the paintings. The undulations recalled for me the architectural classicism of the Prado, something like an entablature, a fine nod as far as I was concerned. While I felt that I could do these commemorative paintings for the remainder of my life, the limitations of the Prado’s finite collection and the problem of the maudlin inevitably would present itself. I felt compelled to simultaneously close out that project and extend it onwards. It was last summer when I was painting an element of that series, a black painting employing the subject of Ribera’s “Jacob’s Dream” that I was gifted with a germ of a realization of how I this project could find its’
1956 Born in Madrid, Spain
1991 Masters of Fine Arts, Claremont Graduate School
1985 Bachelor of Arts, California Polytechnic State University
Lives and works in New York and Tossa de Mar, Spain.
COLLECTIONS:
MOCA Los Angeles, California, USA
Nerman Museum of Contemporary Art, Overland Park, Kansas, USA
CSULB Art Museum, California, USA
AkzoNobel Collection, Amsterdam, Netherlands
Colección Riera Roura, Barcelona, Spain
Akron Art Museum, Akron,Ohio, USA
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2021 The Thickening, Galeria Miguel Marcos, Barcelona, Spain
Selected Works, Galerie Richard, Paris, France
2020 Prado, Post Prado, Galerie Richard, New York, USA
2019 Wellspring, Richard, Paris, France
Burgeoning, Richard, New York, NY, USA
Abstractions, Galeria Miguel Marcos, Barcelona, Spain
2016 Asteriscos Rotos, Galerie Miguel Marcos, Barcelona, Espagne
Paint sculpturally/sculpt Painterly, Hionas Gallery, New York, NY, USA
2014 You Will Know, Hionas Gallery, New York, CA, USA
2011 Galerie Pelaires, Palma de Mallorca, Espagne
Tomio Koyama Gallery, Kyoto, Japon
2010 So Far, Galerie Miguel Marcos, Barcelona, Espagne
2008 Galerie Miguel Marcos, Barcelona, Espagne
Michael Kohn Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, USA
2007 Tomio Koyama Gallery, Tokyo, Japon
2006 Nicole Klagsbrun Gallery, New York, NY, USA
Constelaciones, Miguel Marcos Gallery, Barcelona, Espagne
Galeria Anna Serratossa, Valencia, Espagne
2005 Galerie André Buchmann, Cologne, Allemagne
Galerie Tanya Rumpff, Haarlem, Pays-Bas
2004 Tomio Koyama Gallery, Tokyo, Japon
Galerie Mark Muller, Zurich Suisse
2003 Galerie André Buchmann, Cologne, Allemagne
Chac Mool Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, USA
Galerie Mark Muller, Zurich, Suisse
2002 Nicole Klagsbrun Gallery, New York, NY, USA
Tomio Koyama Gallery, Tokyo, Japon
Brett Mitchell Shaheen Gallery, Cleveland, OH, USA
Galerie André Buchmann, Cologne, Allemagne
2001 Nicole Klagsbrun Gallery, New York, USA Barbara Farber/La Serre, Trets, France
2000 The Box, Torino, Italie
Galerie André Buchmann, Cologne, Allemange
Chac Mool, Los Angeles, CA, USA
1999 Tomio Koyama Gallery, Tokyo, Japon
Steendrukkerij Amsterdam, M.V., Pay-Bas
1998 Hearts and Minds, Cirrus Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, USA
Barbara Farber/ Rob Jurka Gallery, Amsterdam, Pays-Bas
1997 Lawing Gallery, Houston, TX, USA Tomio Koyama Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
Schmidt Contemporary Art, St. Louis, MI, USA
1996 Meyerson & Nowinski Gallery, Seattle, WA, USA
Blum/Poe Gallery, Santa Monica, CA, USA Scarabb Gallery, Cleveland, OH, USA
Bennett Roberts Fine Art, Los Angeles, CA, USA
1995 Schmidt Contemporary Art, St. Louis, MI, USA
Bennett Roberts Fine Art, Los Angeles, CA, USA
1993 Lee Arthur Studio, New York, NY, USA
Studio Raid Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, USA
1991 Graduate Exhibition, CGS East Gallery, Claremont, CA, USA
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2020 Gross, Hollingworth, Kim, Thomas : Visual Pleasures, Galerie Richard, Paris, France
2018 Who is Afraid of Colors? Galerie Richard, New York, NY, USA
2017 Rafael Vega, Dennis Hollingsworth, Gary Stephan, Hionas Gallery, New York, NY, USA
2014 #TBT, Hionas Gallery, New York, NY, USA
DRIFTER Curated by David Rhodes, Hionas Gallery, New York, NY, USA
2013 Figure and Ground, Sargent’s Daughters, New York, NY, USA
2011 Group Show, Galerie Mark Müller, Zürich, Suisse
The Working Title, Bronx Art Center, Bronx, New York, NY, USA
Greater LA, New York, New York, NY, USA
2010 25th Anniversary Show, Michael Kohn Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, USA
Crystal World, Andre Buchmann Gallery, Berlin, Allemagne
Group Show, Tomio Koyama Gallery, Tokyo, Japon
2010 Pintura Sin Tregua Galerie Miguel Marcos, Barcelona, Spain Group Show, Tanya Rumpff Gallery, Haarlem, Pays-Bas
Palm Paintings, André Buchmann Gallery, Berlin, Allemagne
2009 Una Mirada, Galeria Miguel Marcos, Barcelona, Espagne
“1999”, China Art Objects, Los Angeles, CA, USA
2008 03:11h: A Very Nice Lightning Strike, Galeria Miguel Marcos, Barcelona, Espagne
Some Paintings, LA Weekly/Track 16 Gallery, Santa Monica, CA, USA
2007 QUIRKY, Westport Art Center, Westport, Connecticut
Paper Bombs, Jack Hanley Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, USA
Works on Paper, Cirrus Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, USA
Near Dark, Donna Beam Gallery, University of Nevada, Las Vegas, AZ, USA
2006 Constalaciones, Galeria Miguel Marcos, Barcelona, Espagne
10th Anniversary, Tomio Koyama Gallery, Tokyo, Japon
Something About Us, Museo de Tossa de Mar, Costa Brava, Espagne
Couch Paintings, Trudi Gallery, Los Angeles California, USA Hotel California, Glendale Community College, CA, USA
2005 Galeria Miguel Marcos, Barcelona, Espagne
2004 Galerie Tanya Rumpff, Haarlem, Pays-Bas
2003 Manny Silverman Gallery, West Hollywood, CA, USA
New Abstract Painting: Painting Abstract Now, Museum Morsbroich, Leverkusen, Leverkusen, Allemagne
Fragmente des Paradieses, Kunsthalle Palazzo, Liestha/CH Group Show, Houldsworth Gallery, London, Royaume-Uni
Phat and Sassy, Charlotte Jackson Gallery, Santa Fe, New Mexico We Love Painting, Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo, Japan Buchman Gallerie, Cologne, Allemagne
2002 Ramos and “five Times Four” at Modernism, Modernism, San Francisco, CA, USA
Play it as it Lays, London Institute Gallery, Millbank, London, Royaume-Uni
Spieglein, Spieglein, an der wand…, Mark Müeller Gallery, Zurich, Suisse
2001 Vivid, Richard Salmon Gallery, London. Touring exhibition: Mead Gallery, Warwick Arts Centre, Coventry
Northern Gallery for Contemporary, Art, Sunderland, Royaume-Uni
Abstract, Nicole Klagsbrun Gallery, New York, NY, USA
2000 eg, Acunha-Hansen Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, USA
Luminous, Ikon Fine Art, Los Angeles, CA eg:, Acunha-Hansen Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, USA
1999 Super-Abstr-Action, The Box Associati, Torino, Italie
Fore and Aft, ACME, Los Angeles, CA, USA Nach Bild, Kunsthalle Basel, Basel, Suisse
Art in LA, Brett Mitchell Gallery, Cleveland, OH, USA
Galore, Birmingham Museum of Art, Birmingham, AL, USA
1998 Object Obscure, Todd Gallery, London, England, Traveled to Galerie Eugen Lendel, Graz, Autriche
Drawings…2nd Annual Invitational, Meyerson & Nowinski, Seattle, WA, USA
1997 Stepping Up, Andrew Mummery Gallery, London, UK
Drawings…A Bi-Coastal Invitational, Meyerson & Nowinski, Seattle, WA, USA What’s Next on Canvas, Elga Wimmer Gallery, New York, NY, USA
Orange County Art Museum Biennial, Newport Harbor, CA, USA Martha Stewart Living, Art Center Gallery, Pasadena, CA, USA Primary Colors, Barbara Farber Gallery, Amsterdam, Pays-Bas
1996 Balancing Act, Room, New York, NY, USA
Left of Center: New Art from Los Angeles, Ten in One Gallery, Chicago, IL, USA
1995 The Blue House Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, USA
Six Roads to Abstraction, Peter Blake Gallery, Laguna Beach, CA, USA Fresh Air, Schmidt Contemporary Art, Saint-Louis, MI, USA
New Visions: Los Angeles Art in the 90’s, Armand Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, CA, USA
Smoggy Abstraction: Recent Los Angeles Painting, Haggerty Museum, Marquette University, Milwaukee, WI, USA
Painting Beyond the Idea, Manny Silverman Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, USA
The Insistent Image: Abstract Painting in Los Angeles, Oklahoma City Art Museum, Oklahoma City, OK,
USA
Three Painters, Lawing Gallery, Houston, TX, USA
1994 Where We Live, AMO Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, USA
In Plain Sight: Abstract Painting in Los Angeles, Blue Star Art Space, San Antonio, TX, USA
Words and Symbols, ArtSpace Gallery, City of Los Angeles Cultural Affairs Department, Woodland Hills,
CA,USA
Contrarywise Painting, Space Gallery, Chicago, IL, USA
1993 LA Juried Exhibition, Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery, Hollywood, CA, USA
1991 Rotating Exhibition, Boritzer Gray Gallery, Santa Monica, CA, USA Member’s Exhibition, Angel’s
Gate Cultural Center, San Pedro, CA, USA
1990 VEX, Cal State Irvine, CA, USA DA Gallery, Pomona, CA, USA SPARC Forum, San Diego, CA, USA
1986 Church of Architecture, San Diego, CA, USA Score Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, USA Galleria OCASO,
Los Angeles, CA, USA