ARTISTS
CONTINUING AND RECOMMENDED EXHIBITIONS-Hadley Holliday
In a modest show of her recent paintings, Hadley Holliday continues to use acrylic as a stain or watercolor on unprimed canvas, offering undulating
Jeannie R. Lee / ArtScene
01 Oct, 2009
In a modest show of her recent paintings, Hadley Holliday continues to use acrylic as a stain or watercolor on unprimed canvas, offering undulating patterns in a lyrical palette. While there is a serious and beguiling exploration of color underway, it is interesting to note that the colors, often in stripes, are contained in simple shapes: floating squares, stacked bridges, and snaking ribbons. The way those shapes occupy the space of the canvas, sometimes expanding and sometimes contracting, give the eyes a Rothko-esque mandala on which to rest their gaze. In 鈥淕estalt,鈥� the pale pastel stripes are translucent, but the form pulsates with the intensity of a solid object (SolwayJones, Chinatown).