Hillary Dohoney : Traces

Hillary Dohoney is from Fort Worth, Texas and currently based in Paris, France. She has a BA in Studio Art and Art History from Trinity University where she received Trinity University's Excellence in Art Award upon graduation. Dohoney has been a finalist in the prestigious Hunting Art Prize. Conversant in French, she studied abroad in Paris where she was a docent at the Musée d’Orsay and an official copyist of the Louvre. Mainly working in oils, she takes the classical approach of trompe l’œil to render unconventional entities. Her work has been exhibited in Paris, Miami, Arkansas, San Antonio, Houston, Dallas, and Fort Worth.

EXHIBITION DATES: November 14, 2018 - December 8, 2018

FORT WORKS ART is pleased to announce “TRACES”, Fort Worth artist Hillary Dohoney’s return for a second solo exhibition with the gallery. TRACES will feature over 20 oil paintings on linen and panel that showcase familiar seascapes as well has her new light and shadow portrayals. Painted as a response to her move to live and work in Paris, this exhibition welcomes the viewer into Dohoney’s ongoing experiences in her new surroundings.

Using her signature trompe l’oeil technique, Dohoney is able to render her powerful observations and connections to her new city with masterful strokes of paint. With this exhibition, she began working from reference photographs in which she transforms shadows and objects into her own imagined landscape.

In announcing Traces, FWA owner and curator Lauren Childs stated, "Watching Hillary’s growth as an artist from her very early stages to the present cannot be quantified. her ability and commitment to work a series is focused and clear. In this latest body of work we will see the shift in how they tie into her previous exhibition, Adrift.”