Dennis Hollingsworth

Outrageous Fortune

In our small world, an angel and a mitzvah swooped in at the last minute to deliver to us, a dreamland future in NYC. The depth of our gratitude can't be sounded....

Posted by Dennis Hollingsworth on July 27, 2012 10:05 AM

Incubator: Chinatown

Chinatown has been through several high and low tides over the years. Great galleries have established themselves and as they do, they tend to move out to parts of the city that have the cache at the time. China...

Posted by Dennis Hollingsworth on November 15, 2011 1:10 PM

Unt/tled at the Armory Art Fair NYC 2011

Andrew Hahn and Ry Rocklen at Joel Mesler and Carol Cohen's Unt/tled booth at the Armory Art Fair 2011 at pier 92 in New York City. Andrew Hahn's paint/ink on canvas, an edition of linocut evolved silk screens and...

Posted by Dennis Hollingsworth on March 8, 2011 6:37 PM

Phil Wagner at UNT/TLED

If you're in New York, be sure to see Phil Wagner's show at UNT/TLED! I should have had this up a week ago, the opening was last Sunday. I wrote up a statement for Joel Mesler, after a conversation...

Posted by Dennis Hollingsworth on January 19, 2011 4:36 PM

Matt Chambers at Untitled

Longtime readers of this blog will remember Matt Chambers, local LA artist who is a longtime ChinaTown friend. Matt has an impressive show up at UNT/TLED, Joel Mesler and Carol Cohen's new space located at 30 Orchard Street in...

Posted by Dennis Hollingsworth on November 6, 2010 2:41 PM

Something's Happening

I'll be moving studios this week. I'll be inhabiting the space where Dan Hug, then Joel Mesler both jointly and separately had their galleries, and most recently Fran?ois Ghebaly, who has relocated successfully to Culver City. Good ch'i. I'll...

Posted by Dennis Hollingsworth on September 27, 2010 6:23 PM

NYC Panoramas II

(Before we click under the fold to see the panoramas, here are a few outlier fotos.) Titling UNT/TLED: Phil Wagner (artist) and Carol Cohen (co-owner of UNT/TLED with Joel Mesler) peel the moniker on the gallery front glass. Joel...

Posted by Dennis Hollingsworth on September 14, 2010 2:34 PM

Something's Happening

I'm traveling back home to Los Angeles, by way of New York to celebrate the opening of Joel Mesler's and Carol Cohen's new gallery, UNTITLED at 30 Orchard Street in the Lower East Side. the first show will feature...

Posted by Dennis Hollingsworth on September 10, 2010 8:17 AM

Joel in Tossa

Old friend Joel Mesler was here for a few days, much fun was had....

Posted by Dennis Hollingsworth on July 19, 2010 6:10 AM

Joel Mesler at 30 Orchard, NYC.

Old friend Joel Mesler is moving into a new space in the Lower East Side in Manhattan. Sarah Douglas for ARTINFO has a report on what's happening. He will be partnering with Carol Cohen and they will be choosing...

Posted by Dennis Hollingsworth on April 14, 2010 2:50 PM

Henry Was Here

One day recently, as I was busy cracking my egg (details in the link) in the studio, Henry Taylor dropped in. I told him of the progress of the work, of my efforts to surprise myself painting to painting....

Posted by Dennis Hollingsworth on April 16, 2009 5:12 PM

Champion Zero at Rental Gallery NY

I'm in New York this week to see some shows and raise a high five for my friends Drew Heitzler, and Flora Wiegmann who are having a retrospective of Champion Fine Art at Joel Mesler's Rental Gallery. From the...

Posted by Dennis Hollingsworth on October 8, 2008 11:52 AM

PruessPress:

I'm very happy and honored to be included in Joel Mesler's all-star team. That's a context on steroids. From the press release: RENTAL is proud to present the first large-scale exhibition of the works of PRUESSPRESS, a bi-costal producer...

Posted by Dennis Hollingsworth on May 29, 2008 2:49 PM

Something's Happening

I'm moving my studio next door. My studio space doubles, very nice. ChinaTown is changing again, and again just when you think it's going to go to hell, it ends up changing in a good way. Joel Mesler is...

Posted by Dennis Hollingsworth on May 3, 2008 10:29 AM

PruessPress Spring 2008

Andrew Hahn is the captain of the PruessPress ship in LA (Owner Joel Mesler has branched out to New York where he has a press over there and a gallery called Rental Gallery). We've been talking about doing something...

Posted by Dennis Hollingsworth on April 25, 2008 7:13 PM

Calendar: ART LA 2008

Art LA 2008 is happening this weekend, a deliberately designed pocket-art-fair to revive the dormant art fair legacy of LA and counter the mega blow out tendency of the contemporary art fair experience-o-rama. My galleries Michael Kohn and Tomio...

Posted by Dennis Hollingsworth on January 21, 2008 1:21 PM

Raster Haircut

I met the Raster guys when they did a stint at Rental Gallery LA. They're from Warsaw, Poland and my friends who have been there tell me that it's supercool city. Funny, edgy and comfortable in their own shoes;...

Posted by Dennis Hollingsworth on December 14, 2007 2:15 PM

New York Last Week Thereabouts

After a whirlwind short but near perfect week in New York, I noticed trouble when I awoke Sunday morning to prepare to take the E train to the airport: a sore throat. After all that human contact, I must...

Posted by Dennis Hollingsworth on November 17, 2007 8:51 AM

NYNYorked

I'm back from New York, another whirlwind trip. Much has happened. I'm crunching fotos and jelling my head to relate the experience here in the blog. Jelling. I'm a jeller. True, I've been a bit introspective... quiet here in...

Posted by Dennis Hollingsworth on November 13, 2007 1:12 AM

NYNY

I'm setting off for the Burbank airport to fly to New York for five days. I'll be seeing my old friend Aaron Parazette's show that will open tomorrow at Marlborough Chelsea, the Micha?l Amy curated show "Quirky" at the Westport...

Posted by Dennis Hollingsworth on November 7, 2007 4:38 AM