Dennis Hollingsworth

Bart Exposito

One of the great aspects of ChinaTown is the community of artists, and the ability to easily stroll over, drop in the studio and talk about what's going on. This is the working wall of Bart Exposito's studio and he's been moving through several evolutions of his work recently. What you see here is a dark turn (obviously), something new for him. The painting to the left is in progress, the other two are done. A previous body of work had him in lighter colors and paintings that tracked the qualities of the preparatory drawings that has long been an integral part of his practice.

Unfortunately, Bart is hard to pin down for a video interview. We have great conversations, very deep in the painter's realm (not all artists can go there) and I hope to flip open the camera one day and capture the butterflies. But for now, these jpegs will have to do. Here are a couple more close-ups...