Bolaño’s Vice
48″ x 48″ Acrylic On Canvas
by Hollis Dorian
Portrait of the Author. Chilean born. Barcelona bound. A Visceral Realist to the end. A poet from within.
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El Infierno De Dios
40″ x 40″ Acrylic & Spray Paint On Canvas
by Hollis Dorian
The incoherent ramblings of a petulant old deity and his pinball machine certainty is all that’s left after they pull the steel shutters down over a Barcelona shopfront.
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Neruda’s Cat
24″ x 36″ Acrylic On Canvas
by Hollis Dorian
Sly little devil watching them all burn for what they said to him. Burn, you mothers.
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Un Nido De Siempre
48″ x 48″ Acrylic On Canvas
by Hollis Dorian
Robin’s eggs. Waterfalls. The sanctuary that only two souls can build and the fields that look as if they’re ready to swallow you whole.
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La Muerte De Pablo
48″ x 48″ Acrylic On Canvas
by Hollis Dorian
The Master lies in repose, his crimson-smeared frock all that is left of the great man. The mourners now his only friends.
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España Frenètica
48″ x 48″ Acrylic On Canvas
by Hollis Dorian
Flamenco guitar. Catalan cooking. Picasso. Gaudi. Back alleyways, hidden grottos, and drunken nights. This is the invokation made in this fiery piece inspired by the street art and energy of Barcelona and Madrid.
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The Man Who Didn’t Like To Gamble
24″ x 36″ Acrylic On Canvas
by Hollis Dorian
You are all alone at a bar in a Reno casino, down to your last fifty dollars and you look beside you. There is a man who is not gambling. Smoking, yes. Drinking, okay. But he never puts his money, if he even has any, in the slot. He is the man who didn’t like to gamble.
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A Focus Had Arisen
24″ x 36″ Acrylic On Canvas
by Hollis Dorian
And there on the rooftop, the neon glow. The need for a moment’s respite from the city of bulbs and their blues and their pinks.
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La Maison Neon
24″ x 36″ Acrylic On Canvas
by Hollis Dorian
Between two worlds she dances, lit by the firelight of a Bradburyesque ember and making me wish my ribs hadn’t cracked in two so easily.
