Theresa Chong

Duino Elegies is a 40 page fully illustrated catalogue published on "Theresa Chong: Duino Elegies" at Holly Johnson Gallery in Dallas from November 2021 - February 2022. The catalogue features an essay by David Brody, as well as the eleven works from the exhibition...

At some point in our miraculous and fragile lives, we will lose something or someone. We master the art of losing daily. Even with all of life’s celebrations, breakthroughs, and fresh starts, someone always dies in January. Grief, then, is recursive and our relationship with it is inevitable. So how do we come to terms with grief? How do we manage life knowing there are no sharp distinctions between exits and exists?

When I learned of artist Theresa Chong’s exhibition Duino Elegies at Holly Johnson Gallery in Dallas, I recalled the first time I read Rainer Maria Rilke’s poetry book of the same title. Rilke’s collection of ten elegies—written more than 100 years ago while he was a guest of Princess Marie von Thurn und Taxis at Duino Castle near Trieste, Italy on the Adriatic Sea—is full of outstanding devastation. With the prevailing deaths from COVID-19, blinding insurrections, and ravaging injustice, the Duino Elegies seem sadly and remarkably fitting for our time...

Holly Johnson Gallery is pleased to announce the opening of Theresa Chong: Duino Elegies, an exhibition of works on paper inspired by Rainer Maria Rilke’s, the Duino Elegies. The exhibit will be accompanied by a fully illustrated catalogue with an essay by David Brody. An open house will be held on Saturday, November 20, from 5 to 8 p.m. The exhibition continues through February 12...

Holly Johnson Gallery in Dallas is pleased to announce the opening of the exhibition Back & Forth: Celebrating Women on July 21, 2020. Back & Forth commemorates the fifteenth anniversary of the gallery and celebrates the centennial of the 19th amendment. The exhibition will continue through September 26.

Presenting sculpture, installation, paintings, drawings, and photographs, this exhibition highlights the varied creative practices and compelling artworks created by the distinguished women represented by the gallery and invites visitors to consider the centennial milestone in the context of a woman-owned business...

Insipred by meeting John Cage in New York in the 1990s, after pursuing cello studies at the Oberlin Conservatory...

28 page exhibition catalogue published on the occasion of "On Drawing: Line" held June 29-August 17, 2013 at Holly Johnson Gallery, Dallas and September 6-October 22, 2013 at Devin Borden Gallery, Houston. The catalogue includes an essay by artist and writer, Christopher French.

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28 page fully illustrated exhibition catalogue published on the occasion of "Theresa Chong: Drawings" from February 23 - May 11, 2013 at Holly Johnson Gallery. Includes an essay by Mark Harris.  

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Holly Johnson Gallery is pleased to announce the opening of Theresa Chong - Drawings...

Holly Johnson Gallery in Dallas is pleased to announce the opening pf Delineation. The exhibition features works of art by a diverse group of artists...

Surrenduring to the control of a steady hand, Theresa Chong's pencil glides in loops...

In Theresa Chong's ravishing paintings, you can see evidence of her conservatory-trained musicality...

Music remains an inspiration-born, New York-based artist Theresa Chong, who studied the cello...