Dennis Hollingsworth "Colossus"
	Jun.2.Sat - Jun.23.Sat.2007
	<opening reception> Jun.2.Sat 6-8pm
	Colossus, #268 , 2007 oil on canvas mounted on wood panel 243.8x487.7cm (C)2007 Deniss Hollingsworth

Born in Madrid, Spain in 1956, Hollingsworth completed his undergraduate degree at California Polytechnic State University in 1985, followed by his MFA at Claremont in 1991. He currently lives and works between Tossa de Mar, Spain and Los Angeles. His work has been exhibited in "Nach-Bild", the group exhibition that also featured Richard Hamilton and Laura Owens in Basel, Switzerland, additional exhibitions have been held in New York and Los Angeles as well as Germany, Holland, France, and Spain. This is his fifth exhibit at the gallery following a three-year absence (previous shows: 1997, 1999, 2002, 2004). The abstract quality of his works can be based on the lack of concrete motif that can be explained in a facile manner. However, the viewers’ sense of recognizing that something is being transmitted from his work can be explained by the fresh colors, the sharp contrasts, and lustrous pigments that speaks to one’s visual / mental perceptions. Hollingsworth depends completely on the nature of the materiality of his medium, which allows him to transcend linguistic boundaries. He paints with shape as well as tonality, which introduces shadow into the list of properties of the medium of paint. His works feature layers of paint, interleafed and textured to form patterns, which can range from delicate consistencies to rising mounds of paint that spread in all directions or marbled patterns resembling blended whip cream, all of which are dynamically arranged like an alphabet. This adventure into action painting does not, however, allow one to easily see the properties of human emotions. Rather, it exists, and may pull you into, as its own world of two and three-dimensions that is neither painting nor sculpture. This exhibition features new works from his continuing series "Wet on Wet." Using a method of adding layers while the layers underneath have not completely dried, Hollingsworth has to work extremely quickly and transmits this sense of urgency into his works. The artist says,"The title of the large painting <Colossus> relates to the scale of the work (the largest I have done so far); to Goya (extending to Picasso’s Guernica in theme and scale coupled with an Iberian connection); to the gravitas of history that we are living through today; and to the vastness of nature, humanity, and globalism in the most positive and sweeping sense." This exhibition is scheduled to include new, six large paintings and fourteen smaller paintings. Dennis Hollingsworth (biography and works) Tomio Koyama Gallery (web-site) Press: Tomoko Omori, TEL +81-03-3642-4090, email: omori@tomiokoyamagallery.com

"My Longwindery"WOP 01-07,2007 oil on paper,45 x 38cm		Magpie Aesthetic, ww#269,2007 oil on canvas mounted on wood panel, 122.5 x 82.0cm
Ubiquitously Unmentionable, ww#267,2006 oil on canvas mounted on wood panel, 127.0 x 117.0cm		Ever Vigilant, ww#271,2007 oil on canvas mounted on wood panel, 122.5 x 82.0cm