FRANK HOLLIDAY
SOLO EXHIBITION

Partners & Mucciaccia Singapore is proud to announce a solo exhibition of paintings by the esteemed American artist Frank Holliday. Showing for the first time in Asia, the exhibition will inaugurate the Fall season of the gallery, opening on 11th September and continuing until 13th December 2015.

Wielding Romanticism as his weapon, the art of Frank Holliday is brilliant and revolutionary. Holliday became famous in New York during the 1970s and 1980s and through his career, he has worked in close association with preeminent artists of his generation such as Keith Haring, with whom he had a two-man show at Club 57 in 1980, Jean-Michele Basquiat, Ann Magnuson, Kenny Scharf and Donald Bachelor, among others.

The gallery will present 41 paintings, many of which are heroic monumental scale works that have never been shown at the same time publicly. They represent an evolution of style and subject thirty years in the making.

“The paintings of Frank Holliday are transporting. With their lush brushstrokes and voluptuous palette, their suggestive depths and their surface sensations of bodily presence, these are pictures that pulsate with living forms and credible atmosphere. They manage to do all this while sparing us the specifics of actual landscape representation. They are abstract while exuding sensations of landscape,” writes thirty-year internationally acclaimed art critic, exhibition curator, independent scholar and author, David Cohen. Cohen is also the organiser and moderator of The Review Panel, an ongoing public discussion forum which he launched in 2004, hosted by the National Academy Museum and School in New York and the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts.

Frank Holliday has been working with renowned galleries such as Kenny Schacter Gallery, Tony Shafrazi Gallery and he has had several solo shows at Debs & Co., Tom Cugliani Gallery as well as The Kitchen, Dru Artstark and GAL Gallery. His works are part of numerous esteemed collections in the United States, Europe, Japan, Australia and Mexico, such as the Weatherspoon Museum at The University of North Carolina at Greensboro – with Crash (1993) and C-Story (2001), the Museum Frederick Russe of Stockholm (Sweden), the Miniature Museum of Amsterdam, (Netherlands) and the IBM.

Partners & Mucciaccia will release a full colour 184-page catalogue published by Carlo Cambi Editore to accompany this exhibition. The catalogue includes conversations between the artist and art critic and historian Anney Bonney and texts contributed by David Cohen, Tom Cugliani and William J Simmons.

Frank Holliday is the recipient of numerous prestigious Grants and Awards, most recently of the 2015 John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship that is given expressly for the execution of a specific project submitted by the artist, and is one of the most prestigious distinctions in his field. His works have been collected by prestigious art collectors and institutions all over the world, including the Rooseum, the Vilcek Foundation and Heiner Friedrich Collection.