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Holly Johnson Gallery is pleased to announce the opening of, Yes, that might work…, an exhibition of recent ink on canvas and paper works by John Adelman. An opening reception will be held Saturday, January 7 from 5:00 to 8:00 p.m. Yes, that might work…, marks the sixth solo exhibition with the gallery and it continues through March 19, 2023...

Looking intently at the surface of one of Michelle Mackey’s abstract landscapes, the viewer may find portals leading into the earth itself, feel the unseen forces churning beneath, and trace the unfolding story of the land stretched over the geologic time scale. Mackey’s growing interest in geology and “deep time,” bolstered by a journey to Iceland and an arts residency in Wyoming, is fully evident in her latest body of work, which draws inspiration from Enchanted Rock, the fabled pink granite dome in the Texas Hill Country...

Clyde Barrow’s family once owned a service station in West Dallas, at 1221 Singleton Blvd., in a neighborhood called the Devil’s Back Porch. That structure stood until April, when it was hastily bulldozed before the city’s Landmark Commission could intervene.

Given the long lead times of a monthly magazine, I didn’t know how or whether D Magazine could address the matter. (Although Bethany Erickson wrote about it for our website.) But then an artist who has written for us, Laray Polk, alerted me to the fact that another artist in town, Michelle Mackey, had spent years studying and painting and thinking about the Barrow service station. Which is how I came to find myself in Michelle’s studio back in May, looking at some of her work and talking about how she might do something in the pages of the magazine...

Gravel crunched under my tires as I pulled into the empty lot of the old gas station: neutral gray and abandoned, the front door padlocked under the awning. When I got out of my car, I could almost hear the sound of a Coke bottle landing at my feet with a coded message from Bonnie and Clyde scrawled inside, launched from their speeding vehicle. 

My search for Dallas’ buried history had led me here, the former Barrow gas station in West Dallas, once owned by Clyde’s father. In the 1930s, the exterior would have read Star Service Station, but, as I stood there in October 2012, I saw no signage, no gas pumps, no people. This is the kind of place that inspires my artwork: a structure in between its former and future identities, left abandoned to the elements without plaques or preciousness....

Holly Johnson Gallery in Dallas is pleased to announce the opening of Michelle Mackey: Beyond Measure, an exhibition of new paintings inspired by Enchanted Rock that highlights the relationship between the past and present. A reception for the artist will be held Saturday, November 19th from 5-8 pm. The exhibition continues through February 11...

Holly Johnson Gallery is pleased to announce A CONVERSATION: Tommy Fitzpatrick & Kim Cadmus Owens on Saturday, October 8, at 4:30 p.m. A reception will immediately follow the artists discussion about their work until 8:00 p.m...

Ever Present features Milka Djordjevich, Victoria Fu, and Matt Rich in a performance at the GETTY CENTER on Saturday, October 8, 2022, at 5 pm and Sunday, October 9, 2022, at 12 pm. The GETTY CENTER is located at 1200 Getty Center Drive in Los Angeles, CA 90049...

Holly Johnson Gallery is pleased to announce the opening of an exhibition of new paintings by Tommy Fitzpatrick. OPEN SOURCE marks Fitzpatrick’s sixth solo exhibition at the gallery and demonstrates how our perception of the built environment can evolve over time. These new paintings embrace a greater ambiguity and make them visible in a new and exciting way. A reception for the artist will be held October 8, from 5-8 p.m...

Holly Johnson Gallery is pleased to announce Mike Osborne’s participation at FOTOFEST 2022 and a one-of-a-kind program inspired by his work, Musiqa: If I Had A Hammer Tour. The event will take place October 27^th at 6pm at FOTOFEST BIENNIAL, Silver Street Studios, 2000 Edwards St., Houston, TX 77007...

Holly Johnson Gallery is pleased to announce Mike Osborne's participation in the FotoFest Biennial 2022, If I Had a Hammer, from September 24 - November 6, 2022 at Silver Street Studios, Winter Street Studios, and Spring Street Studios, 2000 Edwards St., Houston, TX 77007. The If I Had a Hammer exhibition is co-curated by the organization’s Director, Steven Evans, Associate Curator and Director of Publishing, Max Fields, and independent curator and former director of the Institute of Contemporary Art in Philadelphia, Amy Sadao...