Dennis Hollingsworth

Big Day Saturday in ChinaTown

Henry Taylor
Get Black
March 4th - April 8th, 2006

opening reception:
Saturday, March 4th, 7-9 PM

Henry's going to open a solo show this Saturday at Sister Gallery here in ChinaTown. He shows at Katie Brennan's Sister Gallery. He's a great man and a great painter, I can't wait to see the show.

Also, that night is a group show curated by Andrew Hahn:

RENTAL GALLERY
936 MEI LING WAY
CHINATOWN, LOS ANGELES, CA 90012

T 213 617 0143 E rentalgallery@gmail.com

I asked Andrew if the title came from Camus, the image from "The Stranger" (...working from memory, am I right about this?). No, he said it was from Wallace Stevens. So, I Google and the first listing was Wikipedia on Wallace Stevens:

Imagination and Reality
Stevens is very much a poet of ideas. ?The poem must resist the intelligence / Almost successfully,? he wrote. His main ideas revolve around the interplay between imagination and reality and the relation between consciousness and the world. In Stevens, "imagination" is not equivalent to consciousness, or "reality" to the world as it exists outside our minds. Reality is the product of the imagination as it shapes the world. Because it is constantly changing as we attempt to find imaginatively satisfying ways to perceive the world, reality is an activity, not a static object. We approach reality with a piecemeal understanding, putting together parts of the world in an attempt to make it seem coherent. To make sense of the world is to construct a worldview through an active exercise of the imagination. This is no dry philosophical activity, but a passionate engagement in finding order and meaning. Thus Stevens could write in "The Idea of Order at Key West,?
Oh! Blessed rage for order, pale Ramon,
The maker's rage to order words of the sea,
Words of the fragrant portals, dimly-starred,
And of ourselves and of our origins,
In ghostlier demarcations, keener sounds.

(I didn't get a chance to follow the thought to Camus. More on that later.)

It should be a good night. See you there!

PS: Also, Friday at Black Dragon Society, opens Raffi Kalenderian. I haven't seen his work yet but the word in these streets is that he's doing great paintings. there's much anticipation right now, maybe too much.

Posted by Dennis at March 1, 2006 1:33 PM