Dennis Hollingsworth

Dennis Hollingsworth - If they were meant to be

Technique: Oil on canvas

Artist Biography: Dennis Hollingsworth is a contemporary artist born in Madrid in 1956, but moved with his family to the United States at an early age. He currently resides in Los Angeles, California.He studied painting at the University of California, Santa Barbara, and 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 and gestural style, in which he uses mixed media and various tools to create textures and layers on his canvases. His works often focus on the exploration of color and form, and how these elements can interact in pictorial space.The artist has received several awards and accolades throughout his career, including the Joan Mitchell Award in Painting and Sculpture in 1995 and the Pollock-Krasner Award in 1997. He has also been artist-in-residence at numerous institutions, including the Cité Internationale des Arts in Paris and the American Art Institute in Vienna.In addition to his work as an artist, Hollingsworth has taught at several institutions, including the University of California at 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 technique 'alla prima', 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 strokes thorough 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 his 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 wood as a bas-relief, his vivid but laconic basic colors and the use of the technique ";alla prima". The use of this technique, without corrections or glazes, is perhaps one of the defining elements not only of his painting but also of his personality, which is precise, intelligent, decisive, fresh, gestural, expressive, powerful and intense. This power lies in the security of an impastoed stroke that acquires its own form and that questions its own corporeality, its own reality or even the supposed human intervention for its realization. In the nineties his work entered 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 Galera Miguel Marcos with the exhibition ";Constelaciones".