Holly Coulis. "Pink Flowers". 17" x 13". Signed edition of 50. $125. Marked by her use of simple shapes, swaths of vivid colors, and spatial manipulation, Holly Coulis creates paintings that are reminiscent of Alex Katz, John McAllister, and Jonas Wood. Coulis manages to update the more traditional genres of portraiture and still life by imbuing them with her contemporary perspective. "Pink Flowers" comes from a series of twenty oil pastel drawings made as preliminaries for larger paintings and as a gesture to bring attention to the still-life as an undervalued subject.
