Hollis Taggert Galleries

October 8th, 2009, Hollis Taggert hosted an opening for their new show "Marking Modernism: A Decade with Carles, Dawson, and Maurer" which yours truly attended. The show was well hung and an interesting look at artists I am not very familiar with. Arthur Carles was represented well with a number of colorful and very "Modern" looking canvases. Some small canvases were hung along a corridor, which was a well curated space for such little "gems." Manierre Dawson's work, with the exception of a few well placed bright canvases, tended to all be in the beige family and blurred from one image to the next. His paintings were executed well, but not my favorite of the bunch. The prices ranged from the mid-twenties up to about $500,000, so we'll see how the gallery fares with their sales. I was unable to find any Maurer canvases as the exhibition was crowded, so I wasn't able to stroll into as many of the rooms as I would have liked. Overall, I enjoyed the survey of Modernism, but unfortunately was not blown away.