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HOLLIS DUNLAP

To view all work available by Hollis Dunlap visit artsy. Hollis Dunlap is part of the emerging group of artists who painstakingly study the old masters such as Caravaggio and Vermeer while being fully informed by modernists such as Diebenkorn. The mixture of precise draftsmanship with spontaneous brushwork and contrasting areas of thick and thin pigments echo Dunlap’s immersion of the classic and contemporary. Dunlap lives, paints and teaches in Connecticut and numbers among his collectors the director of the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

What I admire about realism is the time and devotion that it takes to reproduce a single object beautifully — that commitment.

Professional Experience

  • Lyme Art Association, Old Lyme CT, Instructor in figure painting, figure drawing, landscape painting, still life painting, 2002-present
  • Garde Arts Center, New London CT, Worked on restoration project of interior of the theater Instructor of figure painting and drawing classes, 1999-2003
  • Mystic Arts Center, Mystic CT, Instructor in figure drawing, painting, and composition, 2003-04
  • Lyman Allyn Museum, New London CT, Instructor in drawing and composition, 2008
  • Lyme Academy College of Fine Arts, Old Lyme CT, Instructor in figure drawing, painting for pre-college and continuing education, 2004-06

Education

  • Graduated from St Johnsbury Academy in 1995
  • BFA from Lyme Academy College of Fine Arts in 1999

Awards

  • National Arts Club Student Show first prize 2 consecutive years while at Lyme Academy
  • 1st prize at Copley Society Student Show while at Lyme Academy
  • Stobart Fellowship from Lyme Academy
  • Elizabeth Greenshields Foundation grant 2 times
  • Adele K. Paier prize, New Haven Paint and Clay club
  • Best in show, Mystic Arts Center annual group show

Solo/Group shows:

  • Solo Exhibition, Sirona Fine Art, December 2017
  • Self Portrait, Eleventh Street Arts, New York, NY 2017
  • Figurative I, Gallery 1261, Denver, CO, 2015
  • The Artists Gaze: Seeing Women in the 21st Century, Sirona Fine Art, 2015
  • Solo Exhibition, Sirona Fine Art, December 2014
  • Objects of Beauty: Contemporary Still Life Painting, CK Contemporary, San Francisco, CA, 2014
  • Structure and Space, Solo Exhibition, Axelle Fine Arts, New York, NY, 2014
  • Doors of Perception, Six Summit Gallery, Ivoryton, CT, 2014
  • Selfish, Group Exhibition, Katherine Cone Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
  • Figured Out, Group Exhibition, Q Art Salon, Los Angeles, CA, 2013
  • Illuminations, Solo Exhibition, Axelle Fine Arts, Boston, MA, 2013
  • Group Exhibition, Gallery 1261, Denver, CO, 2013
  • Summer Collection, Axelle Fine Arts, New York, NY, 2013
  • Axelle Fine Arts, New York, NY, 2013
  • Winter Group Show, California Museum of Fine Art, Fall Exhibition, Los Angeles, CA, 2013
  • Q Art Salon “Drawn In” Group Exhibition, Los Angeles, CA, 2013
  • Celebrating Lyme’s Beauty, Lyman Allyn Art Museum, 2011
  • Solo Exhibition, Axelle Fine Arts, Boston, MA, 2011
  • Solo Exhibition, Axelle Fine Arts, New York, NY, 2009
  • Solo Exhibition, Axelle Fine Arts, San Francisco, CA, 2008
  • Solo Exhibition, Axelle Fine Arts, Boston, MA, 2006
  • Solo Exhibition, Axelle Fine Arts, New York, NY 2005
  • Group Exhibition, Hygienic Galleries, New London, CT 2003
  • Solo Exhibition, Stobart Fellowship, Lyme Academy College of Fine Arts, 2001