Jerry Kearns

Lost in Paradise, Monumental Huge Pop Art Painting

1986

1951 Born in Tel Aviv, Israel Since graduating from the Fine Art Academy in Florence, Italy and his return to Israel, Griffit presents a fascinating and unique journey from etchings...

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...

Large painted metal wall hanging sculpture by Yuval Mahler (Israeli, b. 1951). Hand signed "Y. Mahler" recto. (it is not numbered or editioned and might be unique). it is done in a glossy enamel paint on metal. The Big Apple, NYC, with gangsters, jazz musicians, Statue of Liberty, architectural skyscrapers, dancing couples, taxi drivers, bicycle riders...

Robin Winters (b. 1950) hand signed; 1986. Acrylic, rhoplex and powdered pigment on screenprint Dimensions: 36”h, 32”w Title: "Home" Provenance: Brooke Alexander Gallery, New York, New York. Gallery label verso. Robin Winters is known for his conceptual works in a wide variety of two- and three-dimensional media and performance/durational art. The reliquary and other recurring themes that appear in his works can be seen in the collection of sculptures and paintings offered in this sale (lots 170, 171, 173, 393, 396). Gallery label to reverse: Brooke Alexander Gallery, New York, New York. Provenance: Brooke Alexander Gallery, New York, New York. Robin Winters (born 1950 in Benicia, California) is an American conceptual, multi-disciplinary, artist and teacher based in New York. Winters is known for creating solo exhibitions containing an interactive durational performance component to his installations, sometimes lasting up to two months. Winters first emerged in the burgeoning Soho NYC art scene of the 1970s. An early practitioner of the Relational Aesthetics (social interaction as an art medium) Winters also created in works through sculpture, installation, performance, painting, drawing and prints. His art maintains a whimsical spirit, and he often returns to ongoing themes involving faces, boats, cars, bottles, hats and jesters or fools. Winters has incorporated such devices as blind dates, double dates, dinners, fortune telling, and free consultation in his performances. Throughout his career he has engaged in a wide variety of media, such as performance art, film, video, writing prose and poetry, photography, installation art, printmaking, drawing, painting, ceramic sculpture, bronze sculpture, and glassblowing. Winters was born in Benicia, California in 1950 to lawyer parents. As a child his hobby was collecting glass bottles found on the beach and under old buildings, which would later influence him as an artist. In 1968, Winters had his first durational performance, entitled Norman Thomas Travelling Museum. The artist drove a Volkswagen bus decorated in collage, many of the images relating to current events and politics. Inside was what the artist described as a “reliquary” containing many objects, including a bottle collection. Winters took the van to shopping centers and even as far as Mexico. That same year, Winters opted not to register for the military draft. Although he was deemed fit to serve, Winters refused. In 1975 the resulting legal proceedings finally came to a close after it was proven that the artist had been harassed by the local draft board. In his teens and early twenties, Winters became acquainted with several local artists who helped shape his aesthetic, most notably Manuel Neri and Robert Arneson. By the early 1970s, Winters was studying at the San Francisco Art Institute (SFAI) and had relocated to San Francisco. At this time Winters became friends with the Bay Area conceptual artists Terry Fox and Howard Fried, and participated in several of Fried's performance works. In 1972 Winters was accepted into the Whitney Independent Study Program in New York City. After coming to New York City, Winters helped support himself by working for various artists, among them the performance artist Joan Jonas and sculptor Donald Judd. In 1974, Winters performed The Secret Life of Bob-E or Bob-E Behind the Veil eight hours a day, five days a week for a month in his studio apartment. Behind a one-way mirror the audience could watch Winters play the character of Bob-E, whose goal was to make a monument for everyone in the world in the form of blue and yellow rubber top hats. By the end of the month the artist had constructed 262 hats. The following year, Winters was invited to take part in the Whitney Museum's 1975 Biennial Exhibition. Entitled W.B. Bearman Bags a Job or Diary of a Dreamer. These meetings led to the formation of the Group Collaborative Projects, or Colab, of which Winters is a founding member. Also in 1976, Winters formed the partnership “X&Y” with fellow artist Coleen Fitzgibbon that would last two years. Together they performed a series of shows in the Netherlands, most notably a show entitled Take the Money and Run. Performed at De Appel in Amsterdam, the show involved the artists robbing their audience. The following day the audience was given an apology, as well as the opportunity to retrieve any valuables and participate in a lottery to win the artists’ services. They also made a Super 8 film in NY called Rich-Poor, in which they asked people on the streets their thoughts on the rich and poor. In 1980 Winters participated in The Real Estate Show and in Absurdities at ABC No Rio. That same year he and artists Peter Fend, Coleen Fitzgibbon, Peter Nadin, Jenny Holzer, and Richard Prince also formed The Offices of Fend, Fitzgibbon, Holzer, Nadin, Prince & Winters. This short-lived collective was based out of an office on lower Broadway and offered “Practical Esthetic Services Adaptable to Client Situation”, as stated on their business card. Their goal was to offer their art as “socially helpful work for hire”. In June of that year Winters participated in The Times Square Show, Colab's most well-known exhibition. The month-long show took place in a four floor building on West 41st Street and was densely packed with art. To cap off a busy year, Winters also became one of the first artists to join the Mary Boone Gallery, showing a successful solo exhibition in 1981. His work was shown in the New York/New Wave show in 1981 at MoMA PS1 along with Jean-Michel Basquiat, Roberta Bayley, William S. Burroughs, David Byrne, Sarah Charlesworth, Larry Clark, Crash (John Matos), Ronnie Cutrone, Brian Eno, Peter Fend, Nan Goldin, Keith Haring, Ray Johnson, Joseph Kosuth, Marcus Leatherdale, Christopher Makos, Robert Mapplethorpe, Elaine Mayes, Frank Moore, Kenny Scharf and others. In 1982, Winters had his first solo exhibition in Los Angeles at the Richard Kuhlenschmidt Gallery. At the Mo David Gallery in 1984, Winters created an installation piece that consisted of a floor of plaster tiles. Underneath each tile, hidden from view, was a drawing. He designed the stage sets for the musician Nico, and assisted French artist Orlan, American artist Stuart Sherman, and American poet Gregory Corso. Two years later Winters was invited to take part in Chambres d’Amis (In Ghent there is Always a Free Room for Albrecht Durer) in Ghent, Belgium. In it, 51 artists created installations in 50 different sites, mostly private homes. Winters chose the home of a local art historian. The artist made 90 drawings based on images found in the large collection of art books in the home's library. He made two copies of each drawing and placed the originals in the books themselves. One set of copies was exhibited in the sponsoring museum, Museum van Hedendaagse, as "The Ghent Drawings". The drawings were also on display at Winters’ solo exhibition at Luhring Augustine & Hodes Gallery in New York City in 1987. In 1986, Winters had a solo exhibition at Maurice Keitelman Gallery in Brussels, Belgium, and the following year a solo exhibition at the Centre Régional d'Art Contemporain Midi-Pyrénées in Toulouse, France. Also in 1986, Winters' Playroom was held at the Institute for Contemporary Art in Boston, Massachusetts. The exhibition was part of Think Tank, a retrospective of Winters' work which traveled to the Stedelijk Museum in the Netherlands, the Centre Regional d’Art Contemporain in France, and the Contemporary Arts Center in Ohio. Winters spent a month in 1989 working with students at the San Francisco Art Institute. Never having worked with ceramics, he spent the month making numerous ceramic pieces, which were then shown in the aptly named One Month in San Francisco. Other components of the piece included Winters’ childhood bottle collection and a video showing each piece in the show filmed briefly next to a ruler.[ Also that year, Robin served as a visiting artist at the Pilchuck Glass School, where he met artist John Drury, who was then working as the school's artist liaison. In the summer of 1990, Winters interviewed fellow artist Kiki Smith for her eponymous book, which was published later that year. That same year (1990), Winters was invited by the Val Saint Lambert glass factory in Belgium to create glassworks in their facility. Winters, artists John Drury and Tracy Glover traveled to Liege from the US, and the three in combination with two of the factories master glassblowers, realized Mr. Winters' work over six weeks time. A portion of the works, a group of glass heads and hats that the artist had produced at the factory, were exhibited in 1990 at the Centre d’Art Contemporain Geneve in Geneva, Switzerland. Later in the year they were included in his solo exhibition at Brooke Alexander Gallery in New York City. They were also shown at Facts and Rumours, an exhibition at the Witte de With Center for Contemporary Art in Rotterdam, the Netherlands in 1991. Winters had a solo exhibition at Van Esch Galerie in Eindhoven, the Netherlands called I am not Indifferent in 1991. The show consisted of paintings, glass heads, and bronze sculpture. Two years later he had another solo exhibition at the Renaissance Society at the University of Chicago, entitled Human Nature. Several hundred heads, made of glass and ceramic, lined the walls and were arranged in rings on the floor. Also on display were various paintings and bronzes. In 1994 Winters had a show at the Michael Klein Gallery in New York City entitled Notes from the Finishing Room, a solo exhibition of paintings. The artist also collaborated with fellow Benicia natives and glass artists Leroy Champagne and Michael Nourot...

Original and unique painting in acrylic and mixed media. Signed, dated and titled at the back of the canvas. Sold with the Certificate of Authenticity.

Original and unique painting, in acrylic and mixed media on canvas. Signed, dated and titled at the back of the canvas. Sold with the Certificate of Authenticity. Jisbar, a contempo...

Original and unique painting, in acrylic and mixed media on canvas. Signed, dated and titled at the back of the canvas. Sold with the Certificate of Authenticity. Jisbar, a contempo...

English artist Jonjo Elliot's large scale still life works are a collision of expressionistic fauvism and his collections encourage a youthful candor. Plants thrive in environments t...