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Holly Johnson Gallery in Dallas is pleased to announce the opening of Velvet Room, an exhibition of recent paintings by New York based artist, Antonio Murado. An opening reception will be held Saturday, May 11th, from 5:00 to 8:00 p.m. This will be the artist's second exhibition with the gallery and will continue through July 13.  

Antonio Murado's career is steeped in contemporary abstraction, yet his basic principles draw from the past. Characterized by their luminosity and color, Velvet Room, presents three large-scale works highly influenced by the techniques and visual elements from 17th century Baroque Spanish painting, and the era surrounding this time of power, imperialism, exploration, and conquest....

Antonio Murado will be artist in residence this summer at Fundación Casa Wabi, a non-profit, civil organization that aims to promote collaboration and social commitment through art. The invitation only program invites residents to develop their work through the interaction with other disciplines and with the members of the local communities within the natural environment of the Pacific coast.

Created in 2014 by Mexican artist Bosco Sodi, the foundation adopts its name from the concept "Wabi-Sabi," which represents a vision of the world focused on the acceptance of the ephemeral and the imperfect. Based on this philosophy, Casa Wabi, located on the Oaxacan coast, was designed by the renowned architect Tadao Ando (Pritzker 1995), looking to generate a space conducive to interaction; where our residents and the communities of the region come together....

Anna Bogatin Ott’s painting, “Everglades”, 2013, was recently acquired by the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (PAFA), Philadelphia, PA. 

In addition - Anna Bogatin Ott’s work, “Aurora”, was acquired by the Georgia Museum of Art in 2015 and will be included in the upcoming exhibition, “Color, Form and Light: Objects from the Permanent Collection” which opens to the public on June 22, 2019 and continues through October 13, 2019. 

Lastly, Anna Bogatin Ott’s painting, “Juliet”, 2017, Acrylic on canvas, 36 x 36 inches was recently acquired by the Gregory Allicar Museum of Art, Colorado State University, in Fort Collins, Colorado.

Holly Johnson Gallery in Dallas is pleased to announce the opening of Thinking of a Place, a solo exhibition of new works by Raphaëlle Goethals. A reception for the artist is to be held on Saturday March 30th. from 5:00 to 8:00 PM. This will be Ms. Goethals' second exhibition with the Holly Johnson Gallery, it will continue through May 25th...

Dornith Doherty’s Mesmerizing Photos Capture the Contradictions of Seed Banking. “Archiving Eden,” now at the National Academy of Sciences, shows how guarding against an ecological catastrophe is both optimistic and pessimistic.

Dornith Doherty’s photographs of seedlings and the facilities where they’re conserved are full of plant life, and yet they were inspired by a seemingly inhospitable place: a below-zero, highly secure vault in a remote Norwegian archipelago...

Dornith Doherty: Archiving Eden exhibition will be on display at the National Academy of Sciences in Washington D.C. from February 15, 2019 - July 15, 2019.

Since 2008, Texas-based photographer Dornith Doherty has traveled around the world to photograph the spaces and contents of seed banks. By focusing on the pleasing aesthetics of seeds and the buildings constructed to conserve biodiversity, she has constructed a visual meditation on the planet’s botanical diversity...

Holly Johnson Gallery in Dallas is pleased to announce the opening of the penumbra tow, a solo exhibition of new work by James Buss. The exhibition is the artist’s second solo show with the gallery. An opening reception will be held for the artist Saturday, February 16, from 5:00 to 8:00 p.m. The exhibit continues through April 27...

48 page fully illustrated catalogue published on the occasion of "Jackie Tileston: Instructions for Dissolution" at Holly Johnson Gallery in Dallas. The catalogue features an essay by Helene Furján and Lee Nentwig, as well as the sixteen works from the exhibition held November 17 - January 26...

Holly Johnson Gallery in Dallas is pleased to announce the opening of Moonlight on the River, a solo exhibition of new work on paper by Stuart Arends. An opening reception for the artist will be held Saturday, January 5, from 5:00 to 8:00 pm. The exhibition continues through Saturday, March 16, 2019...

Jackie Tileston: Instructions for Dissolution at Holly Johnson Gallery in Dallas through January 26. A show of new paintings and works on paper by artist Jackie Tileston. “Tileston’s paintings are heterotopic spaces in which diverse strategies and nomadic thinking create complex images that investigate the contemporary sublime and states of being.”