Art Fair: Dolnick at Intersect Palm Springs (Feb 9-12)
Palm Springs Convention Center, Palm Springs
Booth #119
February 9-12, 2023
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As an agency tasked to steward the legacy of artists, Artist Estate Studio brings an all-women presentation to Palm Springs.
This installment offers a multi-narrative rethinking of the art historical canon by exhibiting the work of five women artists including: the color-theories-made-personal in the works by Swedish-American painter Siri Berg (1921-2020); the lyrical paintings of Chinese-American painter Mimi Chen Ting (1946-2022); the bucolic abstractions of Judith Dolnick (b.1934); the fractured mosaic-like painted panels that capture ancient architecture by Hermine Ford (b.1939); the stark and strictly black and white oil-stick paintings by Joan Witek (b.1943); and the colorful tectonic mixed-media ceramics of Adirondack based sculptor Ali Della Bitta (b.1981). Grounding this selection are important prints by Joan Mitchell and Elizabeth Murray.
Of the artists presented, many have rarely, if ever, exhibited on the West Coast.
Dates and Times:
Opening Night Preview!
Thursday, February 9 | 5 - 8 pm (VIP/All Access Pass only)
General Admission:
Friday, February 10 | 11 am - 6 pm
Saturday, February 11 | 11 am - 5 pm
Sunday, February 12 | 11 am - 3 pm (10 - 11 am VIP hour)
Judith Dolnick “Perhaps to Dream,” 1998, acrylic on linen, 36 x 36 in (38.5 x 38.5 cm)
Judy Dolnick (b. 1934) has been working and exhibiting her lush abstract paintings since the late 1950s where, upon her return to Chicago with her art degree from Stanford, she, alongside artists Robert Natkin, Gerald van de Wiele, and Ann Mattingly opened the Wells Street Gallery, as a reaction to the lack of opportunities for emerging artists to exhibit the expressionistic paintings they were making at the time. With the struggling folk singer Odetta rehearsing upstairs, Dolnick and her crew created what critic Max Kozloff called "an avant-garde exhibition place filled with the most advanced abstractions in town.”
Dolnick moved to New York City in 1959 and began exhibiting alongside such seminal abstract artists as Willem de Kooning, Richard Diebenkorn and Franz Kline at the prestigious Poindexter Gallery. Critic Michael Brenson called her work the contemporary answer to “Matisse, Kandinsky and Dufy.”
Dolnick is most influenced by expressionism, and her works pay homage to Van Gogh (with whom she shares a birthday), Paul Gauguin, and Odilon Redon. Except for the slight pull of nostalgia, Dolnick's nonfigurative paintings are without a hint of gravity. Her seemingly endless expression of color is spontaneous and intuitive. In a mode of receptive reverie, Dolnick offers a surreal world dense with bucolic, ambiguous and semi-familiar shapes that suggest landscapes through scattered pulses of paint. Rhythm and gesture play a critical role in the process of Dolnick's work, a process she has continued to develop despite of her absence from the New York art world. This selection of paintings are like bright daydream fantasies.
Judith Dolnick received her BA from Stanford University (1955) and MFA from Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago (1957). Solo exhibitions include Outlet Fine Art, Brooklyn (2015); Klonaridies Gallery, Toronto (1986, 1989); Gimpel & Weitzenhoffer, New York (1983, 1987); Hoshour Gallery, Albuquerque (1979); Poindexter Gallery, New York, NY (1976); Well Street Gallery, Chicago, IL (1957, 1958, 1959). Recent group exhibitions include “Judith Dolnick, Hermine Ford, Libby Hartle, Joan Witek,” Salon Zürcher, New York (2018); “Side by Side: Robert Natkin and Judith Dolnick,” Edward Hopper House Museum, Nyack (2016); “Arshile Gorky and a selection of contemporary drawings,” Outlet Fine Art, Brooklyn (2014); “To be a Lady: forty-five women in the arts,” 1285 Avenue of the Americas Gallery, New York (2012); “The Wells Street Gallery Revisited,” Lesley Helley Workspace, New York (2012). Dolnick’s work can be found in the permanent collections of Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, DC, The Mint Museum of Art, Mint, Charlotte, NC, The Palmer Museum of Art, Penn State University, PA, and The Spencer Museum of Art, University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS, among others.
Judith Dolnick, Untitled (497C), c.1986, acrylic on canvas, 13.25 x 12 in (33.76 x 30.5), frame Size: 14.25 x 13 in
Judith Dolnick, Untitled (315C), 2002, acrylic on canvas, 12 x 12 in (30.5 x 30.5 cm), frame size: 13 x 13 in (33 x 33 cm)
