PRESS RELEASE: Theresa Chong - Drawings
February 23, 2013
Holly Johnson Gallery is pleased to announce the opening of Theresa Chong - Drawings...
Download Article (PDF)February 23, 2013
Holly Johnson Gallery is pleased to announce the opening of Theresa Chong - Drawings...
Download Article (PDF)February 15, 2013 - Jonathan A. Molina Garcia
For most of his career, John Adelman has explored the material qualities of ink on paper, creating works of art that take on an incredible physical and visceral presence after successive layers of ink have been industriously applied. His compositions are strictly defined by a series of rules that the artist sets for himself. As others have noted, they follow – if a little peripherally - in the footsteps of minimalist and conceptual rule-based art that saw the likes of Sol LeWitt or Josef Albers, and a post-structural interest in art as text, rife with connotative value...
Read More >>February 6, 2013 - Diane Armitage
Why would a contemporary artist with an international career live in the middle of nowhere, in Willard, New Mexico? The artist in question, Stuart Arends, as a joke, greets one of his visitors to Willard in Italian, saying that he hopes she will be entertained. Speaking Italian may seem odd in front of the Willard Cantina, but it’s not so strange when Arends is in Italy on one of his frequent trips there for an exhibition. Or perhaps the artist’s signature painted objects or his aluminum wedges are scheduled for a show in Germany or Switzerland. When he is back in the desert, though, Arends lives off the grid in a house he built. And there the artist is surrounded by the silence of his own 90 acres plus the thousands of others that don’t belong to him. That land comes with the aridity of a high and dry life with little rainfall and virtually no snowfall, and in the far distance are the Manzano Mountains off to the northwest with the occasional line of a freight train passing slowly on its way to or from West Texas; the train looks like a long, shiny snake moving slowly on the horizon…
Download Article (PDF)February 1, 2013 - Ben Lima
This exhibition of 13 acrylic paintings by Tommy Fitzpatrick, all from 2012, presented close up views...
Download Article (PDF)February 1, 2013 - Frances Colpitt
Tommy Fitzpatrick's exhibition "Electric Labyrinth" consisted of...
Download Article (PDF)January 18, 2013 - Gordy Grundy
Art has many purposes and distinctions...
Download Article (PDF)January 17, 2013 - Lin Wang
Not once, not twice, but too often have been told by my Dallasite friends...
Download Article (PDF)January 15, 2013 - Todd Camplin
Casey Williams + Randy Twaddle in ModernDallas.net...
Download Article (PDF)January 12, 2013
Throughout his thirty year career Randy Twaddle has been interested in the physical structures associated with industry and technology...
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Holly Johnson Gallery is pleased to present "Within" a new body of work by Casey Williams...
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