Klaus von Nichtssagend Gallery is pleased to announce Holly Coulis: Whereabouts, the artist’s sixth solo show with the gallery since 2015. Over the past 25 years, Holly Coulis has established herself as a master colorist, layering hues with clarity across geometric expanses and threading charged paths of brushwork through her compositions. In Whereabouts, Coulis seeks new ground – both literally and figuratively – by placing motifs that merge still life, landscape, and abstraction in direct relation to space and gravity. Color combinations applied in fresco-like layers build the surface of each painting into complex strata of tone, while open expanses evoke a groundedness next to animated linework. Vases, fruits, and bowls (familiar objects from Coulis’s oeuvre) appear mirrored, flipped, touching, overlapping, and resting on tabletops. At times, these forms assert themselves as architectural elements, solid and dimensional. Elsewhere they seem to step back into planar fields of color and line. Surprising jumps of stroke and opacity make each shifting element appear singular, and where they intersect, new color relationships are revealed.
