Dennis Hollingsworth

Crysalis

Fellow NYC artist Teri Hackett asked me to be part of a group show titled "Divine Interventions" at Sag Harbor Christ Church this summer. She pitched the idea at an opening in the LES, my solo show was recently de-installed and I was thinking at that time about how to incorporate the travel frame into a subsequent "painting" (the scare quotes indicating my Ryman move of expanding the plasticity from paint to the entire support) into my upcoming work. I immediately conjured an image of a lotus-like construction that incorporates a collection of cardboard font-stamps that I had used ten years ago in my paintings. I collected them in my studio, unwilling to toss them away.

It took a couple of weeks to pull it together. So far, so good.