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In many ways painting is an act of becoming, a search for resolution and meaning that acknowledges our deepest creative drives and aspirations. James Lumsden’s latest body of work reflects the joy of painting as an infinite source of connection and renewal. Led by his chosen medium and a deep understanding of the subtleties and contradictions of the painted surface, Lumsden expands the possibilities of the medium through adept experimentation... 

In this day and age, when art has become more of a commodity and art school graduates are convinced that they can only make a living from their work by attaining gallery representation...

Geoff Hippesntiel pulls off a kind of baroque abstraction in his paintings - he's got bold impasto strokes and gold and silver aplenty...

Squares and rectangles, mapped out in colour upon a wall, created by a person unseen: the building blocks of what we perceive on the most basic level, as creative communication. Entering into the exchange with Craik and Cruikshank we engage in a process of un-doing, where fleeting impressions are deceptive. Adding and subtracting multiple delicate layers of pigmented glaze, the artists work their subtle alchemy on the boundaries of the picture plane; within the considered act of painting and un-painting a myth of flatness and opacity is simultaneously cast and deconstructed. The spectator's eye roams, resting a while on the edges of the support (a whispered background reference in our search for origin). Taking a visual leap, we perceive this precipice before willingly escaping the constraints of geometry...

Holly Johnson Gallery is pleased to announce the opening of Matt Rich, an exhibition of new cut paper paintings and gouaches by the San Diego-based artist. An opening reception will be held on Saturday, September 7, from 6:00 - 8:00 pm. The exhibition continues through November 16.

In his new show at Inman, Tommy Fitzpatrick continues to work in the precise, flat style he has used since the late 90′s to portray everything from mini-golf to road signs and architectural details, but moves away from large-scale objects to focus in on an eerie tabletop world of quasifantasy still lifes...

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.

Available at the gallery and on Blurb.

Holly Johnson Gallery is pleased to present a group exhibition of eleven artists' drawings...

Antonio Murado works out of Mana Contemporary's fifth floor studio, 569. Upon entering this space, one is greeted by the warm amber aroma of freshly cut wood...

Concepts such as nomadism and sedentariness have an intimate link with space, be it natural, transformed or built. One is no longer a nomad as one used to be a traveller. Both concepts represent ways of understanding life that today can barely be simulated, even by covering one's eyes and ears to avoid seeing and hearing the hum of the things happening, vertiginously, around us. Working with sculpture cannot be the same as it was to travel as a traveler or a nomad. However, it seems that space may well be the same distressed and dispersed concept that can be bounded and manipulated, designed and planned, and never owned. Because it is really space which places us and gives us the measure of things. To work with space is also to extensively think about time, that elusive concept that marks our journeys and our stays...