u n p i c k e d
May 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.
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Selected works
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Selected works
in 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