Dennis Hollingsworth

Monadology

I've called these spiny hemispheres Monads since the beginning (1995). My knowledge of Leibniz was rudimentary, and still is in many ways to this day. The more I learn, the more I am satisfied with the nomination. The West...

Posted by Dennis Hollingsworth on April 1, 2023 12:35 PM

Monadology

Back in '96, I started to paint using the nature of impasto paint as a prime driving motive force. It all happened in a moment when my palette knife lifted from a lump of paint on canvas. Immediately, a...

Posted by Dennis Hollingsworth on March 4, 2023 2:20 PM

Breadcrumbs 2

About "Make Me Iliad": I see abstraction and figuration as twin bearings of a shared continuum. So, I would prefer not to untangle them and to see one in relation to the other. In a discourse that has long...

Posted by Dennis Hollingsworth on July 1, 2022 10:48 AM

Breadcrumbs 1

As part of my practice, I reap the titles of my paintings from my weblog. In the Spring of 2007, Leland de la Durantaye wrote an essay in Cabinet Magazine titled "BEING THERE, On the trail of Heidegger". I...

Posted by Dennis Hollingsworth on July 1, 2022 10:44 AM

Adventures With Blender

Adventures with Blender: first real animation via timeline. Brute force ant 🐜 insect energy to discover the answers hiding in plain sight. The key to getting the rigging to work: mapping the mesh to each armature element via specific...

Posted by Dennis Hollingsworth on January 17, 2021 10:41 PM

Blender: Properties of Materials

After the topology, comes the surface treatment. I'll unpack my adventure for any lessons it might afford. Of the multitude of displays in the Blender cockpit, to the right of the screen is an editor window with fourteen modes....

Posted by Dennis Hollingsworth on December 4, 2020 3:30 PM

Pieta

(Buonarroti would be pissed if I left this at 200x144 pixels.)...

Posted by Dennis Hollingsworth on November 30, 2020 8:23 PM

Blender Report

Last summer I wrote a friend, reporting that I had started learning Blender during the pandemic-lockdown-quarantine-isolation-prolonged-hysteria. He was a perfect touchstone since he's an animator for a huge legendary movie studio in SoCal. As for software, I've focused on...

Posted by Dennis Hollingsworth on November 30, 2020 5:20 PM

AIR.CAT L'ENTREMIG

My partners Gerry Smulevich and Alberto Barcia Fernández and I had to postpone our planned AIR.CAT summer artist residency program. We are going to do some interesting things in the meantime... AIR.CAT Press Release, Summer 2020 Due to worldwide...

Posted by Dennis Hollingsworth on June 25, 2020 12:22 PM

Tears and Tears

When the tears came, I dried them. When I couldn't, I tore them off. There were times when I wouldn't tear the tears. Instead, I caught them in little cups like fat from jamón....

Posted by Dennis Hollingsworth on May 8, 2017 10:08 PM

P/s

In preparation for my upcoming show at Hionas Gallery in New York's Lower East Side that will open this Friday, I wrote up a short statement as preparatory material to assist the gallery in its' subsequent work. Here it...

Posted by Dennis Hollingsworth on January 6, 2016 12:18 PM

coils of paint

In preparation for the exhibition of the past summer's painting in Tossa de Mar, Spain, Miguel wanted me to write about the paintings and render a title for the show. When it comes to titles, I usually probe the...

Posted by Dennis Hollingsworth on January 14, 2015 10:06 AM

Toolz

Monad maker....

Posted by Dennis Hollingsworth on March 16, 2014 3:51 PM

Lita Barrie: Painting with a Punch

I'm happy to announce the republication of Lita Barrie's "Painting with a Punch" as published this week in ArtWeek.LA. As Lita noted in an end note to the piece: "This essay is an updated, expanded version of an earlier...

Posted by Dennis Hollingsworth on December 26, 2013 4:36 PM

TimeOut Barcelona: Josep Lambles

Sí, se alistó en la marina, y dice que nunca nadie ha hecho un retrato tan potente como el de Hal Ashby en 'El último deber'. "Sentí la llamada de la armada un día en el Prado, mirando cuadros...

Posted by Dennis Hollingsworth on March 26, 2013 7:00 AM

Lest We Forget, Motherfuckin? Leibniz!

My earbuds have been screwed in tight with the recent Partially Examined Life Podcasts: Episode 66: Quine on Linguistic Meaning and Science (a pleasant discovery) Episode 65: The Federalist Papers (the lads feel that they could design a better...

Posted by Dennis Hollingsworth on November 27, 2012 5:35 AM

The Dog: Scene of the Opening

I have a show at Cirrus Gallery, of my recent monoprints created at Cirrus Editions with the incomparable Jean Milant. See more images from the edition here....

Posted by Dennis Hollingsworth on October 8, 2012 4:20 AM

"MONADS" at Cirrus Next Saturday

I will have a show this coming weekend at Cirrus Gallery, of my recent monoprints created at Cirrus Editions with the incomparable Jean Milant. See more images from the edition here....

Posted by Dennis Hollingsworth on September 18, 2012 6:44 AM

The Dog, monoprints at Cirrus

Untitled #1 2012 Silkscreen and lithography monoprint, inkjet collage 48 x 35 1/2 inches Images of the edition are here. Cirrus Gallery 542 S. Alameda St. Los Angeles, CA 90013 Tuesday-Saturday 10am- 5pm (213) 680-3473 www.cirrusgallery.com...

Posted by Dennis Hollingsworth on May 18, 2012 5:47 PM

Black Monad

The folks at The Partially Examined Life. were kind to send me a high five in an earlier blogpost about them in this blog. Gents, they are. Check out their recent podcast about race, episode #52. As they laid...

Posted by Dennis Hollingsworth on March 21, 2012 9:34 PM