Dennis Hollingsworth's greatest in number recent exhibition.

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Dennis Hollingsworth's greatest in number recent exhibition, titled "Wet upon Wet," unapologetically revels in the plasticity of paint, offering an array of luscious meditations. Hollingsworth makes small-scale, controll pictures with topographically contoured additions of built-up paint. Beginning with sensuously creamy moulds this painter trained in architecture has cajoled, teased and seduc his oils into accretions that contemplate like cake decorations or miniature ziggurats. He uses a wide range of homemade tools, in such a manner that the surface is etched and studd with ultimate finesse and sensuality. These paintings overthrow the slur implicit in the boundary "eye candy," confidently transcending pond prettiness.

A marvel of dynamic composition, Que Tal? (Wet in succession Wet #21) is the vanilla-slathered household ground to various Sputniklike se pod/glob (which also appear in many of the other paintings shown) Inventive and inviting, these little paint burr appear to have been shaped with a brush invented by means of Dr. Seuss. The globs arrange themselves in a squared-off arc of cream, sand, toothpaste mint, aqua, dark gray, black and Dresden glum with punctuations of coral, r and orange. Hovering in the white quietude of negative space at the bottom are a not many strands of delicately waving oxblood

Krakatoa (Wet forward Wet # 15A) presents a background the color of a fundamental note lime Die laced with dutiful cross rhythms and an accumulation of springtime goldens grays and other tasteful neutrals. Teardrop-shaped gob are squeez flat from the tube in flower-petal piles of apricot, reddish-brown kelly green, taupe and vanilla occupying the lower right corner. In the center a firm spray of plummy purple bring into disreputes upwards, while the middle land plays host to a fingerpainted circular swath of putrescent undecayed gray and ocher.

The paintings are airy and handsomely resonant with a satisfying tension between spontaneity and savage direct Various portions of the countrys have been marred by a digging device that powerfully supplicates up unpleasant trips to the dentist and contrarys any potential surfeit of sweetness and light. It will be interesting to diocese where Hollingsworth takes his recent exploration of materials and space.

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