- April 17, 2024
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The most arresting image in the latest show at Hollingsworth Gallery, which opens a new show 6 p.m. May 14, is called “The Warrior,” by Antoinette Slick. It is one of the few pieces that strongly suggests a human form. The image is cut with angular asymmetry so that it does not fill the frame in the way you would expect.
The white field behind the image is textured and ghostly, as if Slick had painted something else entirely and then white washed it in lieu of this torqued, skeletal figure. The eyes are not truly eyes, but seemingly places the artist neglected to fill with black paint.
That absence leaves much to the imagination, and it is a consistent theme in Slick’s pieces selected for the show — hints, portals, invitations in brilliant color.
It’s not just the art itself that makes Hollingsworth Gallery an essential Palm Coast experience, but it’s also the way the art is presented. Curator and artist J.J. Graham is meticulous about the way he arranges, pairs, juxtaposes and collides the art from his artists, and this show is no exception.
The art of Louise Lieber has equal billing in the show with Slick. The images couldn’t be more different on some walls, with the rich, womb-like passionate abstracts of Slick to the 3-D vellum creations that resemble wind chimes by Lieber. On the opposite side of the gallery, though, is a perfect blending of other aspects of their styles. Lieber’s geometric designs, created by painting through plastic construction fencing, give way to Slick’s pastel geometry, resembling farmlands seen from the sky.
Four of Lieber’s gold and blue-green images line the back wall at the gallery. She says they were inspired by architectural drawings (she worked as an architect for 10 years). The images appear to be of impossible buildings bobbing in or emerging from the sea.
“I’m interested in chance imitating nature,” Lieber says. “I want to let the patterns emerge, rather than planning ahead.”
Her architectural images create an alloy of chaos and order, of the churning color of waves and the cold precision of blueprints. In that way, she seeks the “underlying geometry” of Mother Nature.
“What appears to be random is actually part of a larger system,” she says.
Her art suggests that either a Force is working to create order from nothing, or that a Force is working to undermine that order.
Decide for yourself. Come to City Marketplace. Climb the stairs to the second floor and step into Hollingsworth for your monthly breath of fresh paint and night air. The show lasts until June 3.
