Art Palm Beach

Hollis Taggart is pleased to present a contemporary-focused booth featuring six artists. Though marked by different backgrounds, mediums, and influences, these artists share a common drive toward abstraction, exploring all the different ways it can be bodied forth. Hollis Heichemer, with her lushly pigmented canvases, and Dana James, through her flickering, opaque color fields, both mine the possibilities of abstraction through the brushstroke. John Knuth goes the opposite direction, removing his hand entirely in his "fly paintings." Hundreds of thousands of flies are fed on a steady diet of sugar water infused with watercolor paint, which they continually ingest and regurgitate over a few months. These tiny regurgitations cover the canvases in a pointillist mist, yielding incandescent, densely-colored works. Kathryn MacNaughton blurs the boundaries between the digital and the analogue in her paintings. Her works look as if they were created digitally, flipping the usual formula of analogue-made-digital. For artists Anna Pietrzak and Alexandros Vasmoulakis, the material is of utmost importance in their visions of abstraction: Pietrzak uses gold leaf  not as simple embellishment but as a transformative medium, while Vasmoulakis also engages a wide array of different materials such as beeswax collected from Greek Orthodox churches. 

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