Blog: harold hollingsworth

work in progress - berlin .

looking west from studio 3 at Takt Artist Residency - Berlin looking east from studio 3 at Take Artist Residency - Berlin

A Winged Victory For The Sullen - Requiem For A Static King Part 2.mp3 .

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work in progress here at Takt Artist Residency Berlin .

self - berlin A Winged Victory For The Sullen - We Played Some Open Chords And Rejoiced.mp3 .

collaging going on here in the Berlin studio... .

Karl Marx Allee Südstern ‎ .

Odd days suddenly appear here in Berlin. We just got notice that Takt is shutting down after January. So it's time either for a mad scramble to find new residencies or head home... My gut told me something was up from the get go, sometimes one should take heed of what your instincts tell you! More to come on all of this!

. . I'm keeping and creating a sketchbook while I'm here at the residency in Berlin, which I'm finding works in keeping the multiple ideas and influences floating around here in organized. You can also keep track of things progressing here in the studio... [here] [...]

[continued] Acetone - No Need Swim.mp3 .

I wrote a few weeks ago about the artists that fueled my interest in painting during the early days in college. The artists that called Berlin home, Eugen Schönebeck , Georg Baselitz , and Ranier Fetting were artists featured in a show called Berlin Art that traveled to NYC in the mid 80's, and today the works that played so importantly then, were hanging up at the Berlinische [...]

work continues here in Berlin, progressing along with cues of things seen and re-aligned... [continued] as seen on Karl Marx Allee ... .

I received a nice write up on Bryce Hudson's blog called Contemporisticon . Bryce is an artist I stumbled happily upon via flickr . He makes wonderful work, is pro-active and always positive and full of energy, I'm really happy to call him a friend! I hope you all take a peak at the stuff he makes and highlights, he has a wonderful eye and a great aesthetic! .

. starting points and notations .

work in progress, new sketchbook, new painting, new city... Benoit Pioulard - Patter.mp3 .

...things are starting, they had too, felt like I was awash in sleeping too much, in part to jet lag, but also to having a rock band every night below my bed playing intense german metal rock. I feel like I will work late here, I can't sleep with the bands cranking out at Jaegerklause . Bless the Deutschen for still believing that growling wagnarian metal is relevant, which I suppose can at times apply to being a painter in the 21st century. I may, perhaps, have more in common artistically with this music pumping [...]

Starting to settle in at Takt here in Berlin Germany for the next three months, studio is a lot lot smaller than my old Ballard location, colder, and at night, a metal music club is below my floor, so I'm in for a tour of flavors. Met one of the other artists today from Brazil Mariana Coan . We chatted about the arts, the world and the differences in being Brazilian and being American over hamburgers at a Havana influenced bar, right here in the heart of Fredrichshain. [...]

Just finished the walk thru with the management of the building my studio was in. I've had such an amazing wealth of work come out of this space since I took it on in June 2008. I am looking forward to setting up camp in Berlin and seeing what comes from that experience. Cheers my old friend! Echo Lake - Everything Is Real.mp3 [...]