Bidspirit auction | Dennis Hollingsworth, American 20th Century,

Dennis Hollingsworth, American 20th Century, Li'l Emerson, Oil on Canvas - Dennis Hollingsworth, American 20th Century Li'l Emerson, 1997 Oil on Canvas measuring H 67 x W 70 x D 2 inches Signed Verso Condition: Good Provenance: Private Texas Collection Dennis Hollingsworth is a painter whose works fuse abstraction with a pop sensibility. His paintings have a sculptural quality and a low relief—an effect he achieves by using thick impasto to build spikes of paint and textured surfaces. Hollingsworth also prefers to make his works without paintbrushes; instead he squeezes and dribbles the paint directly onto the canvas, or uses unconventional tools to scrape or cut into the paint. He works only in wet-on-wet, meaning that he does not touch the surface of the painting after the work dries. Certain motifs recur in his work, including stripes, spikes, and sometimes text.