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Holly Johnson Gallery is pleased to announce the opening of, John Adelman: One of Two, an exhibition of new drawings that elicit astonishing imagery from painstaking work with logical systems.

38 page fully illustrated exhibition catalogue published on the occasion of "Kim Squaglia: Gossamer" from Oct 12 - Dec 21, 2013 at Holly Johnson Gallery. Catalogue includes an essay by Jonathan A. Molina-Garcia.

Available at the gallery and on Blurb.

New York is not an easy city. It may be interesting for a visit but it's hard to live there. It's dirty, and often hostile. I guess I really don't like the city, which may pose a problem, now that Ana has kindly invited me to write a text about our meetings there. She wants me to portray her with Manhattan as the background, but I feel slightly uncomfortable. I cannot be entirely objective. I've mentioned this feeling to her in order to avoid any misunderstanding, but my complaints didnʼt faze her. I suspect she likes New York. Maybe she is brave. Or bold. Or maybe she just likes the city so much, she fears mythologizing it, and that's why she's asked me to write this. Now that I think about it, I feel she's not afraid of a final portrait with lights and shadows. And curiously, it is this game of luminous contrasts that has shaped our encounters in the city...

Holly Johnson Gallery is pleased to announce the opening of, “Kim Squaglia: Gossamer”, an exhibition of new paintings by the Sacramento based artist. An opening reception for the artist will be held Saturday, October 12, from 6 to 8 p.m. 

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...