{"id":892,"date":"2009-08-10T05:00:00","date_gmt":"2009-08-10T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp\/2009\/08\/holly_farell_-_the_romantic_co\/"},"modified":"2009-08-10T05:00:00","modified_gmt":"2009-08-10T12:00:00","slug":"holly_farell_-_the_romantic_co","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/2009\/08\/holly_farell_-_the_romantic_co.html","title":{"rendered":"Holly Farell &#8211; the elusive comforts of a well-worn life"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>All I need is a room somewhere, <br \/>far away from the cold night air,<br \/>with one enormous chair<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><span class=\"mt-enclosure mt-enclosure-image\" style=\"display: inline;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/assets_c\/2009\/08\/hollyfarellsofa-9127.html\" onclick=\"window.open('http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/assets_c\/2009\/08\/hollyfarellsofa-9127.html','popup','width=499,height=373,scrollbars=no,resizable=no,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=no,left=0,top=0'); return false\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/assets_c\/2009\/08\/hollyfarellsofa-thumb-400x298-9127.jpg\" alt=\"hollyfarellsofa.jpg\" class=\"mt-image-center\" style=\"margin: 0pt auto 20px; text-align: center; display: block;\" width=\"400\" height=\"298\" \/><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Oh wouldn&#8217;t it be loverly.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>(From <i>My Fair Lady<\/i>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=T-2CnRuk6Nk\">here<\/a>.) Eliza Doolittle was not singing about a showroom sofa. She longed for the broken-in beauty of a used object, softened around its edges but still supple in its springs, exactly what <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hollyfarrell.com\/Available\/index.html\">Holly Ferrell<\/a> paints and the reason for her success.<\/p>\n<p>Farrell paints aging dainty things with good bone structures. They aren&#8217;t just tennis rackets, shoes and shelves of books, they are repositories of memory. If <i>Bladerunner<\/i>&#8216;s Dr. Eldon Tyrell wanted the replicant Rachael to be a happy homemaker instead of siren secretary, he would have filled her head with Farell.<\/p>\n<p>The child whose mother used these cookbooks ate well.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"mt-enclosure mt-enclosure-image\" style=\"display: inline;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"hollyfarrellbooks.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/hollyfarrellbooks.jpg\" class=\"mt-image-center\" style=\"margin: 0pt auto 20px; text-align: center; display: block;\" width=\"400\" height=\"277\" \/><\/span>No new tennis balls in Farrell&#8217;s paintings.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"mt-enclosure mt-enclosure-image\" style=\"display: inline;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"hollyfarelltennis.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/hollyfarelltennis.jpg\" class=\"mt-image-center\" style=\"margin: 0pt auto 20px; text-align: center; display: block;\" width=\"400\" height=\"193\" \/><\/span>What saves her work from other feel-good fantasies is the exactitude of her depiction, her spare grace. Next to hers, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thomaskinkade.com\/magi\/servlet\/com.asucon.ebiz.home.web.tk.HomeServlet\">Thomas Kinkade<\/a>&#8216;s smeary landscapes are bloated frauds. There is also in Farell&#8217;s work an undertone of elegy. The shoes below date from the early 1950s. It&#8217;s not likely that their owner still wears them. They are what you&#8217;d find cleaning out your mother&#8217;s closet after her death. If your mother favored florals and wore high heels, these would pierce your heart.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"mt-enclosure mt-enclosure-image\" style=\"display: inline;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"hollyfarellshoes.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/hollyfarellshoes.jpg\" class=\"mt-image-center\" style=\"margin: 0pt auto 20px; text-align: center; display: block;\" width=\"400\" height=\"338\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<div>At <a href=\"http:\/\/www.garde-rail.com\/index.html\">Garde Rail Gallery<\/a> through Aug. 29.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>All I need is a room somewhere, far away from the cold night air,with one enormous chair Oh wouldn&#8217;t it be loverly. (From My Fair Lady, here.) Eliza Doolittle was not singing about a showroom sofa. She longed for the broken-in beauty of a used object, softened around its edges but still supple in its [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-892","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-uncategorized","7":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/892","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=892"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/892\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=892"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=892"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=892"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}