Jerry Kearns

Lost in Paradise, Monumental Huge Pop Art Painting

1986

Dennis Hollingsworth (American, b. 1956) large scale painting, 1994 "Leaf Blower #15", oil & alkyd on canvas over wood panel, Hand signed and dated verso, Dimensions: 72" X 72" Dennis Hollingsworth, Born 1956 in Madrid, Spain he has lived and worked in Los Angeles, California. He currently lives and works in New York City and Tossa De Mar Spain. He attended Claremont Graduate School, Claremont, USA, 1991, B.A. Architecture, California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo, USA, 1985 Dennis Hollingsworth is a painter whose works combine abstraction with a pop art sensibility. The newer pieces bring to mind other artists whose work also investigates the structure and support, including Molly Zuckerman-Hartung, Elizabeth Murray, Ron Gorchov, James Hyde, Rosy Keyser, and Fabian Marcaccio. His first exhibition was Painting Beyond The Idea at Manny Silverman Gallery in Los Angeles, CA in 1995, and the most recent exhibition was TEN at Hionas Gallery in New York City, NY in 2021. Dennis Hollingsworth is most frequently exhibited in United States, but also had exhibitions in Germany, Spain and elsewhere. Hollingsworth has at least 27 solo shows and 67 group shows over the last 26 years. Hollingsworth has also been in no less than 14 art fair. A notable show was Dennis Hollingsworth - Wet On Wet at Blum & Poe in Los Angeles, CA in 1996. He was included in the show “Under Erasure” at Pierogi Gallery curated by Heather and Raphael Rubinstein. Artists included: Jean-Michel Basquiat, Mel Bochner, Jane Hammond, Dennis Hollingsworth, Glenn Ligon, Richard Prince, Robert Rauschenberg, Nicole Eisenman and Antoni Tapies. His work was exhibited in 1999 at the Kunsthalle Basel as part of the group show ‘Nach-Bild’, which also featured artists Richard Hamilton and Laura Owens. Other notable shows were at Nicole Klagsbrun Gallery in New York City, NY and Kohn Gallery in Los Angeles, CA. Dennis Hollingsworth has been exhibited with Katharina Grosse and Herbert Brandl. Dennis Hollingsworth’s art is in museum collections, including MOCA Grand Avenue in Los Angeles, CA and Columbus Art Foundation in Ravensburg among others. He is represented by Hionas Gallery, New York, NY 1956, BORN IN MADRID, SPAIN 1985, BACHELOR OF ARCHITECTURE, CALIFORNIA POLYTECHNIC STATE UNIVERSITY 1991, MASTERS OF FINE ARTS, CLAREMONT GRADUATE SCHOOL LIVES AND WORKS IN NEW YORK CITY, USA AND TOSSA DE MAR, SPAIN SOLO EXHIBITIONS: GALERIA MIGUEL MARCOS, BARCELONA, SPAIN GALERIE RICHARD, NYC, USA HIONAS GALLERY, NYC, USA FRONT GALLERY, HOUSTON, TEXAS, USA TOMIO KOYAMA GALLERY (HIKARIE),TOKYO, JAPAN MICHAEL KOHN GALLERY, LOS ANGELES, CA, USA CIRRUS GALLERY, LOS ANGELES, CA, USA GALERIA PELAIRES, PALMA DE MALLORCA, SPAIN NICOLE KLAGSBRUN GALLERY, NEW YORK, NY, USA GALERIA ANA SERRATOSA, VALENCIA, SPAIN GALERIE ANDRÉ BUCHMANN, COLOGNE, GERMANY GALERIE TANYA RUMPFF, HAARLEM, NETHERLANDS GALERIE MARK MULLER, ZURICH SWITZERLAND CHAC MOOL GALLERY, LOS ANGELES, CA, USA BRETT/MITCHELL SHAHEEN GALLERY, CLEVELAND, OH BARBARA FARBER/LA SERRE, TRETS FRANCE THE BOX, TORINO, ITALY STEENDRUKKERIJ AMSTERDAM, M.V., HOLLAND BARBARA FARBER/ROB JURKA GALLERY, AMSTERDAM, HOLLAND LAWING GALLERY, HOUSTON, TX, USA SCHMIDT CONTEMPORARY ART, ST. LOUIS, MI MEYERSON & NOWINSKI GALLERY, SEATTLE, WASHINGTON BLUM POE GALLERY, SANTA MONICA, CA, USA SCARABB GALLERY, CLEVELAND, OH BENNETT ROBERTS FINE ART, LOS ANGELES, CA, USA LEE ARTHUR STUDIO, NEW YORK, NY STUDIO RAID GALLERY, LOS ANGELES, CA, USA GROUP EXHIBITIONS 2020 “OEUVRES CHOISIES”, GALERIE RICHARD, PARIS GALERIE RICHARD, NYC, PARIS Rainer Gross, Dennis Hollingsworth, Kim Young-Hun, Jeremy Thomas. “UNTITLED”, GALERIE RICHARD, NYC, PARIS 2019 “LITTORAL”, MUNICIPAL MUSEUM OF TOSSA DE MAR, TOSSA DE MAR, SPAIN “DIVINE INTERVENTIONS”, CHRIST EPISCOPAL CHURCH IN SAG HARBOR, LONG ISLAND, USA “ANGLES DE REFLEXIÓ”, GALERIE RICHARD VANDERAA, GIRONA, SPAIN 2018 “UNDER/ERASURE”, PIEROGI GALLERY, NYC, USA “COLOR MATTERS”, GALERIE RICHARD, NYC,USA “EVOLUTION”, GALERIA MIGUEL MARCOS, BARCELONA, SPAIN “WORKS FROM THE GALLERY ARTISTS AND THE COLLECTION 3”, TOMIO KOYAMA GALLERY, TOKYO, JAPAN 2012 “NEXUS”, GALERIA MIGUEL MARCOS, BARCELONA, SPAIN “FOR EXAMPLE PAINTING”, GALERIE MARK MÜLLER, ZÜRICH, SWITZERLAND “FRÜHLING”, GALERIE EUGEN LENDL, GRAZ, SWITZERLAND 2011 GROUP SHOW, GALERIE MARK MÜLLER, ZÜRICH, SWITZERLAND “ALUSIONES-ILUSIONES”, GALERIA MIGUEL MARCOS, BARCELONA, SPAIN “THE WORKING TITLE”, BRONX ART CENTER, BRONX, NEW YORK, USA “GREATER LA”, NEW YORK, NEW YORK, USA 2010 25TH ANNIVERSARY SHOW, MICHAEL KOHN GALLERY, LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA, USA “CRYSTAL WORLD”, ANDRE BUCHMANN GALLERY, BERLIN, GERMANY GROUP SHOW, TOMIO KOYAMA GALLERY, TOKYO, JAPAN PINTURA SIN TREGUA GALERIE MIGUEL MARCOS, BARCELONA, SPAIN GROUP SHOW, TANYA RUMPFF GALLERY, HAARLEM, NETHERLANDS PALM PAINTINGS, ANDRÉ BUCHMANN GALLERY, BERLIN, GERMANY 2007 “QUIRKY”, WESTPORT ART CENTER, WESTPORT, CONNECTICUT “ROOM 3: ACCROCHAGE”, GALERIE MARK MÜLLER, ZÜRICH, SWITZERLAND “POP ART 1960’S TO 2000’S”, HIROSHIMA CITY MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART, HIROSHIMA, JAPAN An important exhibition from Misumi Art Collection of post-war American art, including Roy Lichtenstein and Andy Warhol, Keith Haring, David Hockney, Christopher Wool, Vic Muniz...

"New York artist Robert Reitzfeld has a devoted cult following, but his paintings are not nearly as well known as they ought to be....The paintings show a witty merger of Pop art idioms and post-painterly abstraction, like a mutant blend of John Wesley, Michael Bevilacqua and Gerhard Richter. In each of the exuberant compositions, Reitzfeld offers a unique balance of formalist elements and absurdist drama." from David Ebony's Top Ten @ Artnet At first, Robert Reitzfeld's distinctive melange of Ab Ex. Pop, Op and other postwar painting styles appears to be a send-up of the source material. Among the 25 recent paintings and works on paper in this show, a number of pieces, including Minnie Mouse, Olive. Che. Marilyn and others, feature cartoons and familiar Pop-art iconography, Reitzfeld's versions often appropriating passages from Warhol and Lichtenstein. But Reitzfeld's images are very often fragmented, with roughly torn edges in the paper pieces and colorful abstract passages of paint in the canvases obscuring and sometimes rearly obliterating the subjects. Rather than a nihilistic gesture, however, his distortions may be viewed as a kind of archeology of recent art. They also reveal a rather personal relationship with specific works that have inspired the veteran New York artist over the years. 1961, I Was There (2007), for instance, Is a painting featuring Donald Duck in his blue-and-white sailor suit—a fragment of Lichtenstein's 1961 painting Look, Mickey!, partly painted over with layered patches of red and pink acrylic as well as a sprinkling of glitter. The title of Reitzfeld's piece alludes to his attendance at a 1961 opening at New York's Sidney Janis Gallery, where Lichtenstein showed this seminal Pop work. Reitzfeld is at his best here in several relatively large (about 36 inches square) intricate hard-edge compositions, such as TBT 56 (Marriage), 2006, and T8T 63 (2007). The latter contains another Lichtenstein reference: a detail of the Whitney Museum's 1973 Still Life with Crystal Bowl set...

Sandro Chia was born in Florence in 1946. He has studied at the Istituto d’Arte and then at the Accademia di Belle Arti in Florence where he graduated in 1969. After graduation, he h...

Robert Ellis Kushner (American, b.1949). 44/84 Lithograph on paper titled " Honor thy Mother and Father"; Depicting a husband and wife (I have seen this print described as a screenprint and as a lithograph) Hand signed in pencil and dated alongside an embossed pictorial blindstamp of a closed hand with one raised index finger. Solo Press. From The Ten Commandments Kenny Scharf; Joseph Nechvatal; Gretchen Bender; April Gornik; Robert Kushner; Nancy Spero; Vito Acconci; Jane Dickson; Judy Rifka; Richard Bosman and Lisa Liebmann. Robert Kushner, born in 1949, in California, lives in New York, and is a painter and sculptor. He gained attention in the early seventies as a performance artist, using food, fabric and nudity. Kushner was associated with the Pattern and Decoration movement and used fabric collage in large-scale, bold paintings of the figure. Since 1987 he has used flowers as the subject of his paintings, more recently adding a cornucopia of fruits and vegetables to his repertoire. Kushner's use of rich color harmonies and bold, fluid drawing, mark his belief in the importance of beauty in our lives. Kushner draws from a unique range of influences, including Islamic and European textiles, Henri Matisse, Georgia O'Keeffe, Charles Demuth, Pierre Bonnard, Tawaraya Sotatsu, Ito Jakuchu, Qi Baishi, and Wu Changshuo. Kushner’s work combines organic representational elements with abstracted geometric forms in a way that is both decorative and modernist. Kushner has collaborated with Master printer Bud Shark since 1982 on various monotypes and lithographs. These exuberant, sensuous prints often include collage elements, including glitter, chine-collé, metal leaf and hand coloring. Kushner's work has been exhibited extensively in the United States, Europe, and Japan and has been included in the Whitney Biennial three times and twice at the Venice Biennale in Italy. He was the subject of solo exhibitions at both the Whitney Museum of American Art and the Brooklyn Museum. A mid-career retrospective of his work was organized by the Philadelphia Institute of Contemporary Art. He was one of the original painters of the Pattern and Decoration movements of the 1970s. (along with Cynthia Carlson, Brad Davis, Mary Grigoriadis, Joyce Kozloff, Robert Kushner, Kim MacConnel, Sonya Rapoport, Miriam Schapiro and Valerie Jaudon) The group began exhibiting together in 1976 in "Ten Approaches to the Decorative" at the Alessandra Gallery in New York, followed by "Pattern Painting" in 1977 at PS1 in Long Island City, Queens. Subsequently, over fifty group exhibitions featuring the founding artists were held in museums and galleries in Europe and the U.S. including the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C., the Art Institute of Chicago, Palais des Beaux Arts, Brussels, Louisiana Museum of Modern Art in Humlebaek, Denmark, the Neue Galerie, in Aachen, Germany, the Pori Art Museum, the Mayor Gallery in London, Modern Art Oxford, and the Hudson River Museum in Yonkers, New York.Robert Kushner's prints include a lithograph with gold leaf titled White Lilac and a series of monotypes that include Blue Bells II, Geranium IV, and Oregon Grape III. Robert Kushner lives in New York and has completed several major public commissions. He has exhibited his work widely and is represented in the collections of The Brooklyn Museum, Los Angeles County Museum, The Metropolitan Museum, NY, The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, The Tate Gallery, London, The Whitney Museum, NY and others. In 1997 Hudson Hills Press published the monograph, Robert Kushner: Gardens of Earthly Delight by Alexandra Anderson-Spivey. The New Jersey Center for Visual Arts mounted the survey exhibition Robert Kushner: 25 Years of Making Art in 1998. Kushner's work is represented in numerous important public collections: Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY Art Collection of the United States Embassy, Panama Australian National Gallery, Canberra, Australia The Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore, MD Bowdoin College Museum of Art, Brunswick, ME The Brooklyn Museum of Art, Brooklyn, NY California Palace of the Legion of Honor, San Francisco, CA Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, PA The Columbus Museum of Art, Columbus, OH The Contemporary Museum, Honolulu, HI The Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC Galleria degli Ufizzi, Florence, Italy Gröninger Museum, Gröningen, the Netherlands Honolulu Academy of Arts, Honolulu, Hawaii J. Paul Getty Trust, Los Angeles, CA Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY Museum Ludwig, Cologne, Germany Museum Ludwig, St. Petersburg, Russia Museum Moderner Kunst - Palais Lichtenstein, Vienna, Austria The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY The National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. Neue-Galerie-Sammlung Ludwig, Aachen, Germany Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, PA Rockefeller Center, New York, NY San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA The Tate Gallery, London, England Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY Select Exhibitions: Robert Kushner: 30 Literary Nudes, Luis De Jesus, Santa Monica, CA Robert Kushner: The Language of Flowers, DC Moore...

Artist: Michael Knigin, American (1942 - 2011) Title: Sign of Power Year: 1990 Medium: Acrylic and enamel on canvas, signed and dated in pencil Size: 75...

Artist: Michael Knigin, American (1942 - 2011) Title: At His Peril Year: 1994 Medium: Acrylic on Canvas, signed and dated Size: 96 x 40 inches

Michael Knigin, American (1942 - 2011) - Nicely Wild, Medium: Chromogenic print on canvas, signed, dated in pen top right, titled and numbered on verso, Edition: 12/90, Size: 32 x 19...

Artist: Michael Knigin, American (1942 - 2011) Title: Nothing Ventured Year: 1995 Medium: Acrylic & Enamel on Canvas, signed and titled verso Size: 26.5 x 48 inches