Dennis Hollingsworth

Automatons and Others

There will be a few openings in ChinaTown, Saturday evening:

Black Dragon Society will open "Automatons", a group show of drawings including local friends Bart Exposito, Phil Wagner and Nick Lowe; distinguished with my good friend Joanne Greenbaum and remote acquaintance Jonathan Lasker (we shook hands twice). It is remarkable that Lasker still commands awe and respect among the young painters. Both Lasker and Greenbaum fine tuned their selections when they learned of the idea for the show. Artist Adrian Paules was a last minute addition to the lineup, and I'm curious to hear the logic behind it from El Jefe Maximo, Parker Jones.

Sister Gallery will open with Amy Sarkasian "So In Your Face". People seem to be keen on what she will hang up on the walls there.

David Kordansky Gallery presents Anthony Pearson, his second show in ChinaTown. When I see his work, I get this Matt Mullican / Allan McCollum feeling.

Sam Lee Gallery is new on Hill Street, a couple doors down from the strangely-named-yet-interesting/cool High Energy Constructs Gallery. The word on the street is that Lee was once a curator at LACMA. Brooklyn based artist Chris Doyle will open photo-realismo watercolors of just slept in beds. Doyle arrived to what he's doing now via architecture (he has a grad degree from Harvard), and I'm interested to compare our experiences if we get to meet up at the opening.

Here are some shots of the set up at Black Dragon:

(Some details leveled by my camera.)