Judy Dolnick: Abstractions
18th September, 2025 – 18th October, 2025
HUXLEY-PARLOUR
45 Maddox Street
London W1S 2PE
Huxley-Parlour stages the first U.K. solo exhibition of Judy Dolnick, tracing five decades of her colour-driven abstraction from Chicago to New York and beyond.
Huxley-Parlour Gallery will present the first solo exhibition in the United Kingdom of Judy Dolnick, the American painter born in Chicago in 1934. The show spans five decades of her career and brings together thirteen paintings and works on paper, highlighting her sustained contributions to abstraction.
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Colour has long been Dolnick’s subject as well as her structure. Her canvases alternate between dense passages of pigment and more open, delicate strokes, setting rhythms that hint at natural form. Intuitive chromatic relationships, combined with gestural mark-making, dissolve conventional hierarchies and open painterly space to dynamic effect.
Dolnick first emerged in the late 1950s as part of Chicago’s lively art scene, where she co-founded the Wells Street Gallery with her husband, Robert Natkin, and fellow artists Gerald van de Wiele and Ann Mattingly. The gallery quickly became a hub for experimentation, hosting figures such as Aaron Siskind and John Chamberlain. By 1959 she had moved to New York, showing at the Poindexter Gallery alongside Willem de Kooning, Richard Diebenkorn and Franz Kline, placing her at the centre of postwar abstraction.
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Later she settled in Connecticut, where she pursued her practice with quiet independence, developing the distinct visual language that would characterise her work for the next half-century.
Rooted in the Modernist tradition but not bound by it, Dolnick’s paintings resist easy categorisation. With works ranging from 1968 to 2020, the exhibition testifies to her enduring spirit of innovation and her place in the wider story of American abstraction.
Judy Dolnick: Abstractions opens on the 18th of September, 2025 until the 18th of October, 2025 at HUXLEY-PARLOUR
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