McBride Contemporain is delighted to announce that Jim Holyoak's current exhibition has been reviewed by Tracy Valcourt in Esse Magazine. In this article, Valcourt provides detailed technical descriptions of Holyoak's drawings while also thoughtfully expanding on themes of spatial scale, temporal scale, and what it means to combine cataloguing reality with absurdity.
"Comprising eleven framed works of ink, graphite, and/or watercolour on paper, Gargantuans operates as an abbreviated index of Holyoak's environmental imagination, in which landforms and oft-maligned winged or clawed creatures of the night, such as bats and moths, coalesce into washed hybrids whose edges are invited to bleed into one another."
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