Holly Johnson Gallery in Dallas is pleased to present A Dish You Would Wish You Had Took, an exhibition of thirteen recent paintings by David Aylsworth. This is the artist’s sixth solo show with the gallery, and it opens on Saturday, April 3rd with an open house from noon to 4:00 p.m. and continues through August 7, 2021.

Throughout his career, David Aylsworth has deftly embraced ambiguity in the painterly process, one where the resulting canvas lives on not so much as an end product but more as a space for an ongoing adventure. Even characterizing Aylsworth’s painting as purely nonobjective is not exactly right; canted horizon lines, overlapping forms and wide expanses admit an ambiguous depth into his compositions. The seeming nonchalance radiating from his shapes and palette is in fact a purposeful irreverence. Imperfection is embedded in his method, as edges are never quite smooth, colors are scumbled or applied wet-on-wet, and surfaces expose thinly veiled revisions. The exuberance of Aylsworth’s painting is a survivor’s vitality, one that sees adventure in uncertainty, and values ingenuity over faultlessness.