Dennis Hollingsworth

Lift Me Up

This is the painting finished jsut before we left Dallas for LA.

It's maximalist, taking the idea of the last painting and extending it closer to the edges, in effect, cropping the last painting. Going into it, the colors were to take their cue from the first painting of this group. My intention of spreading the green strokes all over the surface was thrown out by the difference of the thick bed of thrown paint and how the "Sap Green" differed in that context. I shifted to black for contrast. I stomped into it with the pinkish amalgam of colors that became more mixed than I originally intended.

The title, "Lift Me Up" came from a song title from "Gospel at Colonus". More on that later.

Believe it or not, this is about the light touch.

Lightness, in this case is the limited nuber of actions taken to push paint against paint.

In all of the work, there is an accumulation of paint applications, "marks" knocking into "marks", each cropping and deforming and hopefully accentuating all other "marks" made in turn.