Dennis Hollingsworth

Dennis Hollingsworth - If they were meant to be

Técnica: Oil on canvas

Biografía del Artista: Dennis Hollingsworth is a contemporary artist born in Madrid in 1956, but at an early age moved with his family to live in the United States. He currently resides in Los Angeles, California. He studied painting at the University of California, Santa Barbara, and at the California Institute of the Arts. His work has been exhibited in galleries and museums around the world, and is in numerous public and private collections. Hollingsworth is known for his abstract, gestural style, in which he uses mixed media and a variety of tools to create textures and layers on his canvases. His work often focuses on the exploration of color and form, and how these elements can interact in pictorial space. The artist has received several awards and recognitions throughout his career, including the Joan Mitchell Prize in Painting and Sculpture in 1995 and the Pollock-Krasner Prize in 1997. He has also been an artist in residence at numerous institutions, including the Cité Internationale des Arts in Paris and the Institute of American Art in Vienna. In addition to his work as an artist, Hollingsworth has taught at a number of institutions, including the University of California, Santa Barbara, the University of Southern California, and the California Institute of the Arts. He has also given workshops and lectures around the world, and has been invited to serve on juries for competitions and exhibitions.

 

The painting of Dennis Hollingsworth (Los Angeles, USA, 1956) is definitely unique. In his early years, he is contextualized within the framework of the new expressionism of the American West Coast. Hollingsworth's paintings have a sculptural quality and a low relief, an effect he achieves through the 'alla prima' technique, without corrections or glazes. By using this technique, he defines not only his art language but also his personality, which is intelligent, expressive, gestural, self-confident and powerful. In addition, he employs clean thorough strokes which the painting becomes a living body. His work forms part of museums and public collections such as MOCA Museum of Contemporary Art (Los Angeles, California, USA). Hollingsworth's first appearance in Spain was in Miguel Marcos Gallery with the exhibition 'Constellations' (2006). Contextualized in its beginnings within the framework of the new expressionists of the American West Coast, the work of Dennis Hollingsworth (Los Angeles, 1956) is characterized by the unusual use of oil as a bas-relief, its vivid but laconic basic colors and the use of "alla prima" technique. The use of this technique, without corrections or glazes, is perhaps one of the defining elements not only of his painting but also of the character of his person, which is revealed to be precise, intelligent, determined, fresh, gestural. , expressive, powerful and intense. This power lies in the security of a pasted line that takes on its own form and questions its own corporeality, its own reality or even the supposed human intervention in its creation. In the nineties his work entered at the MOCA Museum of Contemporary Art (Los Angeles, California), considered the most prestigious museum in the city. He exhibited for the first time in Spain in 2006 at the Miguel Marcos Gallery with the exhibition "Constellations."