Hollis Taggart

orothy Hood, an adventurous Texan whose enthralling abstract paintings won her great renown in the Houston art world starting in the 1960s, had high expectations for herself. And in many ways, she achieved them: friends like Leonora Carrington and Frida Kahlo from her two decades living in Mexico, high-profile gallery shows across the United States, numerous museum acquisitions, a lifetime achievement award from the Women’s Caucus for Art. Some even call her Texas’s greatest 20th-century painter.

Hollis Taggart is pleased to present its first solo exhibition of the American artist Dorothy Hood (1918-2000) while announcing its representation of her estate alongside McClain Gallery of Houston, Texas. Hood was a pioneering figure of American Modernism who fused Abstract Expressionism with elements of surrealism and was heavily influenced by the two decades she spent immersed in the Mexican art scene while living in Mexico City and Puebla. Dorothy Hood: Remember Something Out of Time will reintroduce New York audiences to the artist, who has not been the focus of an exhibition here since the early 1980s.

We’re proud to present our list of the best art books of 2024 for your holiday reading, and perhaps to inspire your gifting this winter. Our editors and critics read across genre, subject, and pace this year, from memoirs and graphic novels to catalogs, artist books, and everything in between. Hyperallergic Editor-in-Chief Hrag Vartanian muses on the poignant work of photographer Diana Markosian in Father, while critic Alexandra M. Thomas recommends Nikki A. Greene’s book reframing the study of Black visual art and musical production. Read on for Reviews Editor Natalie Haddad on Trans Hirstory in 99 Objects, Associate Editor Lisa Yin Zhang on scholar Anne Anling Cheng’s essay collection, my love of Audrey Flack’s memoir, and more ordered by publication date in the list below. As always, we approach the “art book” category with flexibility, considering titles that seam the art world with its incalculable intersections with other fields. Let us know what your top books of 2024 are, and happy reading! —Lakshmi Rivera Amin, Associate Editor

Hollis Taggart is pleased to announce that the gallery will be representing the estate of the Cuban-American artist Rafael Soriano (1920-2015). In tandem with this, the estate has announced a catalogue raisonné devoted to the artist, edited by the art historian Alejandro Anreus. Both announcements follow two major museum acquisitions of the artist’s work, including three paintings acquired by the National Gallery of Art in Washington, DC, in August, and one painting acquired by the Whitney Museum of American Art last month. Hollis Taggart has also announced the gallery will be presenting a solo exhibition of Soriano’s work from June 5 through July 18, 2025. This will be the artist’s first solo show in New York City.

Hollis Taggart is pleased to announce the representation of the estate of the second generation Abstract Expressionist Charles Cajori, which will be launched with an exhibition of his work at the gallery later this month. Known for blending bold abstraction with figural experimentation, Cajori’s canvases display a mastery of color and dynamism. Charles Cajori: Turbulent Space, Shifting Colors is the first exhibition of the artist’s work in NYC in nearly in a decade, and will function as a “mini-retrospective,” featuring works from the early 1950s to the late 1970s.

“If I were to die tomorrow, no one would say, ‘Too bad, she was so young’,” wrote the artist Audrey Flack in the epilogue of With Darkness Came Stars, her memoir published earlier this year, months before she passed away in June. You might expect such thoughts about mortality from someone about to mark her 93rd birthday, but you would not necessarily expect it from Flack—a vivacious artist always moving, creating, reinventing and, in that particular moment, opening a solo show at New York’s Hollis Taggart Gallery as well as planning her first solo institutional exhibition in years.

When I was at Washington & Lee, and also at law school at Tulane, I had no sense of being an art dealer…I simply liked art and was starting to collect (modestly) at that time.  Mostly prints and British watercolors. My studies in business and art history ended up being useful, as well as my law background, in my eventual decision to enter the art business. I use all 3 disciplines in the business!