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Dennis Hollingsworth: Corporeal Painting

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Published in Art Agenda.  Dennis Hollingsworth’s paintings raise playful questions about the paradoxical position of abstract painting today—caught in the impasse between the opposing camps of modernism and postmodernism. Link: Dennis Hollingsworth CorporealPainting Dennis Hollingsworth, A Blessing, 2012. Oil on canvas over panel, 96 x 144 inches.   “Dennis Hollingsworth: Corporeal Painting” by Lita Barrie www.kohngallery.com...
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The Art of Empathy: Joel-Peter Witkin and Jerome Witkin

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Joel-Peter Witkin, "Satiro, Mexico", 1992
Huffington Post July 8, 2014. Also republished in Twin Visions: Joel Peter Witkin Jerome Witkin ( published by Jack Rutberg Fine Arts,  2014.) The” Twin Vision”  exhibition of these legendary artists  at Jack Rutberg Fine Arts is an historic landmark, because it is the first joint exhibition of these twins who have worked separately in...
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Critic’s Pick: Sharon Ellis at Christopher Grimes Gallery

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  Artweek.LA April 7, 2014, Critic’s Pick. Sharon Ellis solo exhibition at Christopher Grimes Gallery. Ellis’ subject is the patterns of time perceived in the recurrent symmetries of nature and the fractal universe of self-similar patterns. Read my review in Artweek.LA....
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Critic’s Pick: Mei Xian Qiu at Kopeikin Gallery

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Mei Xian Qiu
Artweek.LA, April 7, 2014, Critic’s Pick. Qiu’s work has a cinematic feel, created by imprinting  photographs on plexiglass substrates with thick layers of pigments housed in tabloid souvenir boxes, which have a 3-D quality. (Kopeikin Gallery, March 1-April 19, 2014) Read my review in Artweek.LA....
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Barbara Kruger Monograph. Essay text.

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Essay commissioned for the monograph,Barbara Kruger  published by The National Art Gallery, New Zealand, 1988 http://www.specificobject.com/objects/info.cfm?object_id=6153#.U43teVy1y1J   BEYOND THE LOOKING GLASS: YOUR TRUTHS ARE ILLUSIONS By Lita Barrie “How can I be distinguished from her? Only if I keep on pushing through to the other side, if I’m always beyond, because on this side of...
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Twins Speak: Joel-Peter Witkin and Jerome Witkin

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   Painters Table via Artweek.LA March 24, 2014.  Republished in Twin Visions: Joel-Peter Witkin Jerome Witkin ( published by Jack Rutberg Fine arts, 2014) Lita Barrie’s  interview with twin brothers, narrative figurative painter Jerome Witkin and celebrated/controversial art photographer Joel-Peter Witkin, at their first joint exhibition at Jack Rutberg Fine Arts. Links:  Front Cover  story in Artweek.LA Featured...
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Dennis Hollingsworth: Artist-and-Critic Conversation

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Dennis Hollingsworth
 PaintersTable- via Artweek.LA,  January6/13, 2014. A philosophic  conversation on art issues, after visiting Hollingsworth’s  new studio in NYC. This interview is a continuation of an eighteen year dialogue that began in LA. Links: http://www.painters-table.com/link/artweekla/dennis-hollingsworth-conversation http://artweek.la/issue/january-6-13-2014-double/article/dennis-hollingsworth-artist-and-critic-conversation 24cialisitalia.coa continuation of an eighteen year dialogue which began in Los Angeles and travelled to New York....
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Dennis Hollingsworth:Painting with a Punch

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  Painters Table  -via Artweek.LA  Dec 23, 2013. An essay analyzing Hollingsworth’s corporeal paintings. Hollingsworth’s work is on view in Drifters, a group exhibition, at Hionus Gallery, New York. Hollingworth’s paintings raise playful questions about the paradoxical position of abstract painting today – caught in the impasse between opposing camps.His layered surfaces become a self-reflective space in...
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Lisa Adams: The Aesthetic Dimension of Melancholy

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Lisa Adams, The Magic Hand, 2013, 24 x 20 inches, oil on canvas over panel (courtesy CB1 Gallery)
Painters Table Dec 7, 2013 – via Artweek.LA Dec 2, 2013. Republished in In the Land of Entropic Beauty ( monograph published by CB1 Gallery)    An essay on  Lisa Adams’ recent melancholic paintings. These paintings do not  represent melancholy in obvious themes and iconography they  exhale it through enigmas – created by combining different emotions and different...
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