u n p i c k e dMay 23 - June 24, 2017 ![]() ![]() Kristin Hollis’s line has always offered an air of authority and a certain vulnerability. It looks easy and confident, yet is exploratory at the same time. In the loose grid paintings, which play the starring role in her new show u n p i c k e d, it is this line in its combination of the eerie, the profound and the tentative which gives the paintings a particular visual rhythm and intensity. Works such as Indigo Net, Bluegrass Baby and Comme Two are beguiling and beautiful and gently simple all at the same time. ![]() So what here has Hollis unpicked? The grid compositions riff on the warp and weave of their stretched linen grounds. Is this the small made compellingly large? Or is it, in the case of Comme Two, something unfathomably mighty, like quantum field galactic origin theory brought down to manageable size? There are biographical references being unpicked in paintings like Mango Mo(u)rning (an elegy to Venezuela where Hollis spent time as a child) and Those $10 PJs from Coolangatta – a surprisingly luminous little painting. There are also grounds of bruised indigo, lustrous ultramarine and yellow that catch the eye here. But it really is the modulation of line, the angling of oil stick with deft movement of wrist and hand, that makes these paintings hum. JS ![]() Selected worksPlease hover over image to see title...
Selected worksin the back gallery...
![]() ![]() ![]() Kristin Hollis installing her works in the back gallery ![]() Dog Park 1 & Dog Park 3 hanging in the back gallery List of works Comme Two (diptych), 2017 oil & oil stick on canvas 1520 x 1520mm $11,000 Mango Mo(u)rning, 2017 acrylic with graphite on Belgian linen 1300 x 2000mm $11,000 It’s Business Time, 2017 acrylic, oil stick, oil and graphite on canvas 520 x 760mm $6000 Flat Pack, 2017 acrylic and oil stick on canvas 520 x 760mm $6000 Indigo Net, 2017 acrylic, oil & oil stick on canvas 1520 x 760mm $6000 Bluegrass Baby, 2017 oil & oil stick on canvas 1520 x 760mm $6000 Going Grey? 2017 acrylic, oil stick, oil and graphite on canvas 1520 x 760mm $6000 Blue Deep, 2017 acrylic with varnish on canvas 1520 x 760mm $6000 Dog Park 1 & Dog Park 3, 2016 charcoal & acrylic on 250gsm hot-pressed Fabriano 1160 x 750mm fr $3500 ea A very quiet boy, 2014 oil, charcoal and pencil on canvas 400 x 300mm $1500 Those $10 PJs from Coolangatta, 2017 acrylic, oil stick, oil and graphite on canvas 900 x 600mm $3400 Hanging out with the rent boy in the rental, 2017 pen, colouring pencil and collaged photo on paper 350 x 260 fr $1500 Me & Piranesi, 2017 oil on canvas (backed onto metal) 610 x 610mm $2100 T9 & T10, 2017 pen, felt pen, acrylic and colouring pencil on paper 250 x 230mm fr $1200 ea On to paper, 2017 pen, acrylic and colouring pencil on paper 350 x 260mm $1300 Mindfield, 2017 charcoal with acrylic on 300gsm cold-pressed Fabriano 1400 x 1400mm $3200 Territories, 2017 charcoal with acrylic on 300gsm cold-pressed Fabriano 1400 x 1400mm $3200 Prices include GST |