Father's malady 1990

Oleg Holosiy’s “Father’s Malady,” is a painting with an unknown date, composed of four quadrants in oil on canvas. The painting is about layering, both in terms of imagery and process. The top left quadrant is worked with dark, wet on wet marks, and the red in the lower left is pulled upwards. The red and the dark marks create a kind of gloomy psychic space. The top right and lower right quadrants are more linear, but still loose, not labored. You can sense the artist finding the images, not just copying from life. I am thinking about how Holosiy is balancing different painterly approaches. In the bottom left there are maybe animals in red, or a large wound. This area is in contrast to the bottom right where there are more clearly two children playing. The range of marks allows the painting to breathe and to keep multiple possibilities open. This is art as an ongoing conversation, never quite settled.