Hollis Taggart

08/29/2024

Opening Reception: September 12, 2024 | 5-7 PM | Exhibition: September 12 - December 13, 2024 | In the modern tradition of abstract art, artists look...

08/29/2024

"In Defense of the Summer Group Show" - Annikka Olsen for Artnet
https://news.artnet.com/art-world/in-defense-of-the-summer-group-show-2527496

08/29/2024

Hollis Taggart is pleased to present the world is big and i want to have a good look at it before it gets dark, a three-person show of contemporary landscape painting. Featuring new work by Madeleine Bialke, Rachel MacFarlane, and Alexander Richard Wilson, the exhibition brings together a diverse group of artists who take unique approaches to depicting the current damaged landscape. Curated by Kara Spellman, Hollis Taggart’s Director of Research & Acquisitions, the exhibition brings contemporary depictions of the landscape into a gallery known for its role in preserving and promoting historic American landscape painting. 

The three artists in the exhibition, all in their thirties, are based in very different parts of the world: Madeleine Bialke in London, England; Rachel MacFarlane in Queens, New York; and Alexander Richard Wilson in Denver, Colorado. Through illusion, metaphor, and color choice, they take unique approaches to depicting the damaged landscape while sharing an interest in capturing the psychological impact of our continued destruction of the natural world around us.

the world is big… will be on view in Hollis Taggart’s annex space from September 12 through October 12, 2024, with an opening reception on Friday, September 13, from 6-8PM.
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Images:
1. Madeleine Bialke, Firebird, 2024, Oil on canvas. Courtesy of the artist, and Newchild Gallery.
2. Rachel MacFarlane, A Passenger, 2024, Oil on linen.
3. Alexander Richard Wilson, The Interlaken Fire, 2024, Flash and acrylic on canvas.

08/26/2024

OPENING | The Armory Show 2024 | Booth 118
at the Javits Center, September 6-8
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Hollis Taggart’s booth will trace the legacy of women abstract artists from the post-war moment to the present. Our focused booth will feature select key artists of the New York School, including Grace Hartigan, Betty Parsons, Michael West, Joan Mitchell, and Dusti Bongé, who fought to earn respect in the male-dominated world of abstract expressionism––not as muses, but as artists. Michael (Corinne) West adopted a masculine first name in efforts to free her work from the bias of gender, while Dusti Bongé created art as a single mother at a time when servitude to family was expected to override any personal ambitions for women.
 
Driven by integrity of purpose, pure talent, and single-minded work ethic (Joan Mitchell: “When you are tired, depressed, or even sick… there is only one cure: get up and work”), these visionary female artists opened the door to the art world for artists to come, including contemporary artists Dana James, Hollis Heichemer, and Hayoon Jay Lee. With their lushly pigmented brushstrokes (Heichemer), use of unorthodox materials such as rice (Lee), and opaque color fields that flicker (James), these contemporary artists’ works nod to the groundbreaking legacy of the post-war artists mentioned above, while building out new modes of abstraction completely on their own terms. Our booth invites a long look at the practice of abstraction over the past century by women artists, highlighting how contemporary practices do not transpire in isolation but are always, intractably, in conversation with those who came before them––not just in terms of artistic style, but also through transformations of social codes these earlier artists helped enact.
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Images:
1. Dorothy Hood, Untitled, circa 1960s, Oil on canvas.
2. Dana James, Lisa, 2024, Encaustic and pigment on canvas.
3. Kay Sage, Composizione bianca e grigio-verde, circa 1935-36, Oil on canvas.
4. Rachel MacFarlane, The Moon and the Deluge, 2024, Oil on linen.
5. Hayoon Jay Lee, My Mother’s Land, 2015, Rice, molding paste, and acrylic.
6. Audrey Flack, Abstract Expressionist Autumn Sky, 1953, Oil on canvas.

08/25/2024

Interview with Hollis Taggart on Abstract State
https://abstractstate.us/

08/25/2024

A Sneak Peek at This Year’s Armory Show
https://hyperallergic.com/945075/a-sneak-peek-at-the-armory-show-2024/

08/23/2024

"Intangible Expression with Hollis Heichemer" - New Hampshire Home

Artist Hollis Heichemer reveals the grounded beauty of New Hampshire in her work.

08/21/2024

Hollis Taggart is pleased to present Edges Off a Model, Tim Kent’s second solo show with the gallery since joining its roster in 2021. In his latest body of work, Kent turns his focus to artmaking, exploring the spaces in which painters and sculptors seek inspiration. Blending realism with elements of surrealism, Kent’s newest paintings showcase the artist’s masterful ability to create enigmatic depths that unsettle the viewer’s sense of what can be seen and what is hidden. While firmly anchored in the history of European painting, Kent also plays with new technologies, merging and layering these different visual codes in works that seem simultaneously contemporary and classical.
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Edges Off a Model presents nine of the artist’s latest paintings and will be on view on the first floor of Hollis Taggart from September 12 through October 12, 2024, with an opening reception on Thursday, September 12, from 5-8PM.

08/15/2024

ON VIEW | Asian-American Abstraction: Historic to Contemporary, through September 7.

Ranging from 1950s Abstract Expressionist works by artists including Franz Kline, Sam Francis, and Dusti Bongé to recent works by contemporary artists including Ivy Wu, Gwen Yen Chiu, and Hayoon Jay Lee, the exhibition presents an intergenerational dialogue about the lasting international influence of East Asian artistic techniques and philosophies.

Rather than attempting to find similarities or thematically organize these works, Asian-American Abstraction is intended to be a celebration of the diversity of East-Asian influence on modern and contemporary American art.

08/02/2024

Hanging with Alasdair Nichol
https://www.maineantiquedigest.com/stories/hanging-with-alasdair-nichol/9799
Image: March Dew by Philadelphia-based artist Bill Scott, painted in 1981.

08/02/2024

ON VIEW | Asian-American Abstraction: Historic to Contemporary, through September 7th.
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“As our gallery has continued its commitment to exhibiting and studying Postwar American Art – taking on the estates of Dusti Bongé, Michael (Corinne) West, Sheila Isham, and Ralph Iwamoto in the past five years alone – we became more and more interested in exploring how these artists are indebted to the rich culture of East Asia,” said Hollis Taggart. “At the same time, as our contemporary division has expanded, we have been observing the tremendous contributions of Asian American artists to the contemporary art scene. It is through these parallel developments – as well as through conversations with our colleagues Jeffrey Wechsler and Emily Chun – that the idea for this exhibition was born. Both Wechsler and Chun have been instrumental in shaping this exhibition, and we are very grateful to them for providing invaluable curatorial input and sharing their scholarship through their respective catalogue essays.”

07/22/2024

The Honolulu School That Quietly Nurtured Hawaii’s Top Artists Gets a Museum Tribute
https://news.artnet.com/art-world/mckinley-satoru-abe-honolulu-museum-shows-2513029

07/18/2024

Audrey Flack’s Last Words: A Tale of Success in a Sexist Art World

In ‘With Darkness Came Stars’ she tells her story, and that of other women artists, painfully but with the aim of inspiring others to bypass the remnants of patriarchy in the art world.

07/15/2024

ON VIEW | Asian-American Abstraction: Historic to Contemporary, through September 7th, 2024, 521 W 26th St, 1st and 2nd floor.
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This exhibition seeks to continue a curatorial project initiated by curator Jeffrey Wechsler at the Zimmerli Art Museum in 1997 with the acclaimed exhibition Asian Traditions/Modern Expressions: Asian-American Artists and Abstraction, 1945-1970. Travelling to various venues in the United States, Japan, and Taiwan, the exhibition explored the myriad ways American artists of Asian heritage incorporated traditional East Asian techniques and philosophies into their art. In Asian-American Abstraction at Hollis Taggart, Wechsler and the gallery expanded the thesis of the Zimmerli exhibition not only by including the cutting-edge of contemporary art, but also by extending the historic component to include American Postwar artists whose oeuvres were influenced by an appreciation of East Asian traditions. Expanding the original curatorial premise across time and geography, Asian-American Abstraction showcases the creative power of cross-cultural and intergenerational exchange.

07/03/2024

We'll be closed at Thursday, July 4 and Friday, July 5 for the Independence Day Holiday. We will reopen Monday, July 8 at 11am.

07/03/2024

CAN Ibiza Has Ambition, but Can It Offer More Than a ‘Work-cation’?

For its third edition, CAN Ibiza art fair welcomed international names like Galleria Continua, Xippas, and Hollis Taggart.

07/03/2024

Hollis Taggart is pleased to present Asian-American Abstraction: Historic to Contemporary, a group exhibition of 47 historic and contemporary American artists whose oeuvres have been influenced by East Asian artistic traditions. Featuring the work of both Asian-American and American Abstract Expressionist artists, the exhibition traces how the artistic traditions of East Asia have made an indelible mark on American art history. Ranging from 1950s Abstract Expressionist works by artists including Franz Kline, Sam Francis, and Dusti Bongé to recent works by contemporary artists including Ivy Wu, Gwen Yen Chiu, and Hayoon Jay Lee, the exhibition presents an intergenerational dialogue about the lasting international influence of East Asian artistic techniques and philosophies.
 
As Emily Chun notes in her catalogue essay, “In spite of the simultaneously insufficient and over indexed category of “Asian-American art,” such categorizations can be useful in brokering and attending to Asian-American art, which, as seen in this exhibition, compel so many different types of abstraction, each with its own compounds of visibility and invisibility.” Rather than attempting to find similarities or thematically organize these works, Asian-American Abstraction is intended to be a celebration of the diversity of East-Asian influence on modern and contemporary American art.
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On view from July 11 through September 7, 2024, and spreading across both floors of the gallery as well as its annex, Asian-American Abstraction: Historic to Contemporary will open with a reception on Thursday, July 11, from 5-8PM. A complementary exhibition, Transcultural Dialogues: The Journey of East Asian Art to the West, will be presented concurrently at Fu Qiumeng Fine Art on the Upper East Side.

07/02/2024

Remembering Audrey Flack (1931-2024)

Hollis Taggart is saddened to announce the passing of artist Audrey Flack on June 28 at age 93. A pioneering artist whose fierce spirit and brilliance helped shape the history of post-war American art, Flack lived a life fully consecrated to the making of art. As she noted in her...

07/02/2024

Remembering Audrey Flack (1931-2024)

Hollis Taggart is saddened to announce the passing of artist Audrey Flack on June 28 at age 93. A pioneering artist whose fierce spirit and brilliance helped shape the history of post-war American art, Flack lived a life fully consecrated to the making of art. As she noted in her memoir published a few months ago: “the history of art became my history; the making of art, my truth; and the essence of art, my religion.” Flack was prodigiously creative and productive right up until her passing, and this year alone saw profiles of Flack published in Vogue, New York Magazine, New York Times book review, ARTnews, and Artnet. 

Flack first came to artistic maturity among the vibrant downtown scene of Abstract Expressionism, the details of which she meticulously recounted in her memoir. As a precocious teenager studying art at the Cooper Union, she was introduced to luminaries like Jackson Po***ck, Willem de Kooning, and Franz Kline, but eventually began to move away from Abstract Expressionism and its questionable social dynamics to forge her own style. An early feminist and a single mother of two children, one with autism, Flack began merging her expressionistic style with figurative elements, finding figuration more conducive to her lived experiences even though it went against the prevailing trends of the time. In the 1960s and 1970s, Flack helped pioneer the style of Photorealism, becoming the first Photorealist painter whose work was purchased by the Museum of Modern Art for its permanent collection. In the 1980s, Flack focused on sculpture and most recently, she explored merging pop cultural references and Old Masters iconography in a style she called “post-pop baroque.” 

As we mourn Audrey Flack’s passing, we also celebrate her rich legacy and extraordinary body of work. Undeterred by commercially viable trends of the time and single-mindedly focused on bringing forth her evolving visions of art, Flack held a special ability to transfigure the world into miraculous objects of art.

06/29/2024

Ibiza’s Lively Art Fair Is Ushering in a Burgeoning New Scene

Contemporary Art Now Ibiza 2024 showed off the best of contemporary figurative painting from across the globe, as well as the island’s local charm.

06/26/2024

Hollis Taggart’s  booth at Contemporary Art Now (CAN) Ibiza will feature the work of Dana James, Osamu Kobayashi, and Kathryn MacNaughton, three emerging abstract painters. Poetic and otherworldly, James’s paintings invoke pastel dreamscapes with their multiple textures. MacNaughton seeks to give her works the illusion of appearing digital, flipping the usual formula of analogue-made-digital. Rendered with outsized brushstrokes, Kobayashi’s paintings are like playful riddles, featuring biomorphic forms that hint at the surreal.

See link in bio for more information.

06/08/2024

Paint as Experience - Norman Carton: from Ukraine to Philadelphia to New York, bridging Impressionism and Abstract Expressionism - Art and Antiques Magazine

Norman Carton: from Ukraine to Philadelphia to New York, bridging Impressionism and Abstract Expressionism by William Corwin At age 10, in 1918, Norman

06/08/2024

Interview with artist Kathyrn MacNaughton (CAN Art 2024) - CC/ magazine

Hasta el 30 junio tendrá lugar en Ibiza CAN Contemporary Art Now. Como Media partners entrevistamos a Kathryn MacNaughton.

06/08/2024

ON VIEW NOW • Contemporary Selections on the second floor in Chelsea, NYC. Group exhibition is on view now and through 6/28.

Contemporary Selections is a group exhibition of contemporary works by Thomas Agrinier, Paul Anagnostopoulos, Paige Beeber, Jonni Cheatwood, André Hemer, Edward Holland, Dana James, Alex Kanevsky, Tim Kent, John Knuth, Osamu Kobayashi, Hayoon Jay Lee, Rachel MacFarlane, Kathryn MacNaughton, Nora Maité Nieves, Justine Otto, Bill Scott, Devin Troy Strother, Alexandros Vasmoulakis, and Mia Weiner.
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06/05/2024

Hollis Taggart is pleased to announce our participation in Contemporary Art Now 2024 in Ibiza. Visit us at booth A7 from Wednesday, June 26th to Sunday, June 30th, to explore selected works by Osamu Kobayashi, Dana James, and Kathryn MacNaughton.

Osamu Kobayashi is known for his bold, reductive works which have fluidity of form and motion. His seemingly simple paintings are deceptively complex with intricate layering and with a tactile, gestural application of the paint. Biomorphic and geometric shapes float through dazzling backgrounds, and his paintings often allude to a variety of references, including landscapes, objects, and bodies.

In the works of Canadian artist Kathryn MacNaughton, the canvas—and the analog process of the painter’s hand—references the computer screen and the digital touch. In her physical paintings, she seeks to give the illusion that the work looks digital, thereby reifying the digital in paint. MacNaughton’s paintings traffic in polarities: analog and post-analog mark-making (i.e. the painterly and the digital); pragmatism and Romanticism; expressiveness and obfuscation. 

Dana James creates works with an exquisite sense of touch, incorporating multiple mediums and textures. Central to James’ work is the idea of materials transcending their nature. Her works manipulate materials to create such transcendental effects that recall nature, and endeavor to capture memory and transience as a feeling or moment caught in time.
 
See the link in bio to learn more. 
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Images:
1. Osamu Kobayashi, Waves, 2024.
2. Kathryn MacNaughton, Downpour, 2024.
3. Dana James, Dancing in Pantone II, 2024.
4. CAN Ibiza poster.

05/30/2024

As her recently-published memoir reveals Audrey Flack lives her life with passion, commitment and an unflinching belief in the power of art.  We celebrate that life with her and send her birthday wishes today.

Audrey’s recent achievements have been the focus of a number of articles in the past few weeks. See the link in bio to learn more.
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Images:
1. Photo of Audrey Flack
2. Cover of New York Times article by Prudence Peiffer
3. Cover of Vogue article by Grace Edquist
4. Cover of Artnet article by Annika Olsen
5. Cover of Curbed article by Wendy Goodman
6. Cover of Forward article by Laura Hodes

05/30/2024

As her recently-published memoir reveals Audrey Flack lives her life with passion, commitment and an unflinching belief in the power of art.  We celebrate that life with her and send her birthday wishes today.
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Images:
1. Audrey Flack, A Brush with Destiny, 2023.
2. Audrey Flack, Abstract Expressionist Self-Portrait, 1952.

05/29/2024

OPENING | Hollis Heichemer: Tumbling Through Space, Thursday, May 30th from 5-8pm, 1st Floor.

Heichemer’s newest paintings continue her career-long investigation of the depths and gradients of green, but are also marked by unexpected flashes of reds, pinks, and oranges. When asked the extent to which the natural surroundings of her New Hampshire studio impact her work, Heichemer explains that the influence of her environment is subtle. Rather than being directly influenced by the greenery or other colors surrounding her light-filled studio and her New Hampshire environs, she is much more interested in the overall feeling of what it’s like to experience change in nature and its sudden shifts and surprises. “Nature can startle and unsettle you, completely lift you out of where you were, and deposit you elsewhere – it can shift your entire being,” Heichemer says. This shift and moment of surprise as well as the corresponding feeling of untethered space and time travel is what the artist captures so magnificently in Tumbling Through Space. Rather than presenting her experience, though, Heichemer invites the viewer to enter the painting and have their own: “I’m not grabbing you and telling you to pay attention to this or that because I feel that’s what you should be doing. Instead, I’m opening you up to what already exists within you. With these paintings, you reflect on your own experience.”

Image:
- Hollis Heichemer, long wide slope, 2024

05/24/2024

ON VIEW | In Focus: Rafael Soriano, through June 21st.
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In the wake of the 1959 revolution, Soriano fled to Miami in 1962 with his wife Milagros and young daughter Hortensia, leaving behind a thriving artistic career in Cuba. Working as a graphic designer and occasional teacher in Miami, Soriano stopped painting for two years out of exiled despair. Upon receiving a spiritual revelation in a dream, Soriano began painting again and his style transformed from geometric abstraction into the oneiric, luminous gradations of light and shadow he came to be known for. In a 1997 interview, he stated, “The anxieties and sadness of exile brought in me an awakening. I began to search for something else; it was through my painting. . . And I went from geometric painting to a painting that is spiritual. I believe in God, I believe in the spirit.”
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Images:
1. Installation view: In Focus, Hollis Taggart, 2024.
2. Rafael Soriano, Languidez (Languor), 1995.
3. Installation view: In Focus, Hollis Taggart, 2024.
4. Rafael Soriano, Cautiva Ternura (Captive Tenderness), 1997.
5. Installation view: In Focus, Hollis Taggart, 2024.
6. Rafael Soriano, El Candor del Estío (Summer’s Candor), 1990.

05/23/2024

New American Art: A new exhibition at the Crystal Bridges Museum examines the work of the Indian Space Painters
- Native American Art Magazine, April/May 2024
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