holly johnson gallery

HOLLY JOHNSON GALLERY // JULY 31 // 5PM

INK, inc.
John Adelman, Isabel Albrecht, Astrid Bowlby,
Ernesto Caivano, Todd Camplin, Craig Dongoski,
Jacob El Hanani, Il Lee, Linn Meyers and M

Open House: Saturday, July 31, 6 - 8 pm

Gallery talks with John Adelman and Todd Camplin: 5 pm

Holly Johnson Gallery is located at 1411 Dragon Street in Dallas, Texas 75207.
Gallery hours are 10 to 5 p.m., Tuesday through Saturday, and by appointment.
For information call 214-369-0169,
email: info@hollyjohnsongallery.com, or visit www.hollyjohnsongallery.com.

Holly Johnson Gallery in Dallas, Texas is pleased to announce the opening of INK, inc.,
an exhibition of recent work by ten artists using ink as their primary medium. From the
subtle tonal shifts in Isabel Albrecht's small square ink drawings to the miniaturized mark
making of Jacob El Hanani, ink takes on many colors, forms, and even textures in the
exhibition.

John Adelman received his MFA from the University of North Texas. Adelman's drawings
play by the rules - his rule-based systems are combined with obsessive mark-making
and can be derived from mathematics, logic, and/or personal and consequential
rules that he sets for himself. These processes result in drawings that are completely
unpredictable.

ISABEL ALBRECHT
Isabel Albrecht was born in Frankfurt/Main, Germany and received an MA in drawing
from Camberwell College of Arts, London and an MA in printmaking from the Royal
College of Art, London. Repetition is central to her drawings and results in patterns that
are complex in their simplicity, often composed solely of parallel vertical or horizontal
lines. The subtle tonal shifts in her drawings soften the geometric forms created from the
patterns and create the illusion of vibration and movement.

Astrid Bowlby received her MFA from the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts. Her
densely-packed drawings have been described as controlled chaos. She
methodically applies ink to paper until the forms, often spirals and flowers appear as
one dark, solid field. From afar, the drawings appear as a mass of ink, and the
individual elements are only discernable upon closer inspection.

ERNESTO CAIVANOErnesto Caivano received his MFA from Columbia University. He was
included in the 2004 Whitney Biennial at the Whitney Museum of American Art in New
York. By absorbing numerous references from medieval fairytales, Renaissance
literature, fractal geometry or more contemporary discoveries in the greater cosmos,
Caivano creates a metaphor of human progress in his detailed ink renderings.

Todd Camplin received his MA from the University of Texas at Dallas and an MFA from
the University of North Texas. His drawings use words and phrases appropriated from
popular media and personal messages. His work attempts to crack the code of words,
while at the same time helping others experience text the way he does, as a mystified
abstract.

Craig Dongoski received his MFA from the University of South Dakota and is currently
an assistant professor of art at Georgia State University. Dongoski works in multimedia
technology and the conventional practice of drawing. The relationship of the spoken
and written word explores the connection between the drawn mark and the sound
produced while inscribing. Visually and conceptually the drawings are connected to
and assimilate with geological time and sound waves.

JACOB EL HANANIJacob El Hanani was born in Casablanca, Morocco, and attended
the Avni School of Fine Arts in Tel Aviv, Israel, and the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris. He
has pursued his vision for over thirty years with tenacity and zeal unswayed by the
ever-changing trends of the contemporary art world. He is a meticulous mark maker
creating drawings that range from small geometrical designs, to the weave of a piece
of cloth, to the Hebrew alphabet.

IL LEEIl Lee was born in Seoul, Korea, and received his MFA from the Pratt Institute. His
drawings are currently featured in a solo exhibition at the Crow Collection of Asian Art
in Dallas. He works almost exclusively in ball point pen, creating dense, dark-colored
masses out of small, individual marks. Lee often goes through hundreds of pens per
drawing, and his abstractions are rhythmic and mesmerizing, having the appearance
of movement as the eye crosses the page.

Linn Meyers received her MFA from California College of Arts and Crafts. She has shown
extensively throughout the US, and was included in the 2000 Pittsburgh Biennial.
Recently two wall drawing were featured in, at the time being, at the Phillips
Collection, Washington D.C. Her drawings are composed of rhythmic dots and lines,
creating the illusion of ripples in sand or water.

and M received his BFA from the University of North Texas, and currently lives and works
in Fort Worth, Texas. He was a member of Denton's Good/Bad Art Collective and is
currently in the acclaimed band Mission Giant. His drawings of organic
transformations, detritus and accumulated treasures recall our past and the fantasies
of our collective memory.