Dennis Hollingsworth

Flashback to Flash Forward

Flashback: October 31, 2013.

Flash forward: an upcoming solo show at Hionas Gallery, LES, NYC, January 2016.

Please stay tuned!

Dervish

Slaughter of the Innocents

idealism of my youth

idealism of my youth
2015
#511
60"x48"

Details, Details...

Details, Details...

Saturnalia

Saturnalia
2015
#510
21"x12" diameter

Intimacy in Discourse: Unreasonable Sized Paintings

Today, Phong Bui moderated a roundtable discussion with nine artists from the over thirty he has curated into a huge show at the the School of Visual Arts Chelsea Gallery entitled Intimacy in Discourse: Reasonable Sized and Unreasonable Sized Paintings. I snip from the announcement:

School of Visual Arts' Chelsea Gallery and Mana Contemporary, in collaboration with the Rail Curatorial Projects, co-present a two-part exhibition, "Intimacy in Discourse: Reasonable Sized and Unreasonable Sized Paintings," curated by Phong Bui. Both are proposed experiments to explore the conditions that lead to the production of small paintings: how paintings' sizes are determined by different artists' conscious or unconscious intentions, and how those sizes, in turn, affect their relation to viewers in the various spaces that the artworks quietly occupy in contemporary visual culture.

According to Bui, both curatorial ideas were inspired by Jackson Pollock's admiration for Albert Pinkham Ryder, whose modestly sized paintings--such as "Moonlight Marine" (1870 - 90), which measures 11 ½ x 12"--evoke monumental scale and immensity of space, while Pollock's larger canvases attain a sense of intimacy. Such a subtle perception of how scale mediates our responses to images like these subsequently prompted Thomas Nozkowski's term "reasonable-size paintings," which describes his two standard sizes, 16 x 20" and 22 x 28", within which he has consistently worked since the early 1970s. The following two selections of painters were assembled to expand the dialogue surrounding this topic.

I took notes.

100 Years of Suprematism

The Malevich Society, part of the The Harriman Institute at Columbia University in New York City celebrated the 100 year anniversary of Kasimir Malevich's Suprematism with a two day symposium.

I took notes.

I went in with two questions in mind:

-Why did Malevich scramble the dating of his paintings?

-What is the meaning of the bookending of his Suprematist achievement with folk representation?

genes of our father

genes of our father
ww#509
2015
71"x63"
oil on canvas

Armature