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THE LOCKWOOD GALLERY
JAMES HOLL
INDETERMINATE LANDSCAPES



The Lockwood Gallery is honored to present a selection of paintings and sculptures from James Holl’s esteemed “Indeterminate Landscapes” body of work made from 2001-2009. The exhibition celebrates the launch of his new art book “James Holl, The Landscape Painter”, the story through artworks and words marking Holl’s journey from a young artist to the present.
NOVEMBER 2ND - DECEMBER 15TH
OPENING RECEPTION:
NOVEMBER 2ND
4PM -7PM
GALLERY HOURS:
SATURDAYS & SUNDAYS 11AM - 6PM
THURSDAYS & FRIDAYS BY APPOINTMENT

747 ROUTE 28
KINGSTON, NY 12401
TEL: 845-663-2138
FOR INQUIRIES AND SALES PLEASE CONTACT ALAN GOOLMAN, CURATOR, AT 917-509-7156
ARTIST STATEMENT
JAMES HOLL
“Indeterminate Landscapes” present an inquiry into the ambiguity of scale and gesture. In 2001, Holl said, “ I began making paintings of the dirt beneath my feet. I took a ride in a small airplane to photograph rock formations on the desert floor. From that height, they reminded me of the small pebbles on the ground. The rocks seemed to express randomness. I looked at pictures of Japanese Rock Gardens. The thoughtful compositional placement of the rocks also seemed to express chance occurrences. I call these paintings “Indeterminate Landscapes.” One does not know if one is very close to the ground or one is very far away. I intend the forms to be ambiguous and the color associative to memories so that they may hold the gaze. The paintings are meditations on nature’s being.
My paintings belong to the long tradition of painting as defined by using the medium of paint, scale relating to the human figure, the possibility of flatness and pictorial space, the trace of the human hand and the crystallization of time. The practice by this definition is an attempt for a purity of expression not tainted by literal referential content”.
James Holl’s new publication, The Landscape Painter 1972–2023, chronicles the journey of a young artist from the era of modernism through the rise of postmodernism to the present. The artistic paths taken address the contrasting art theories and cultural shifts that influenced both the artist and New York City during these dynamic times. Arriving at the present, Holl distills Landscapes to
be of matter emerging from energy.
The Landscape Painter 1972 –2023 is published by
Edizioni Grifo of Lecce, Italy. The art book includes
essays by the esteemed writers Carter Ratcliff and
David Ebony. It is 304 pages with 510 images.

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