The New Setup has Changed
2023

Companions
Riverside Art Center
Opening September 8th, 2024
Exhibitions runs 9/8/24 - 10/12/24
Riverside Art Center

Solo exhibition at the Riverside Art Center opening on Sunday September 8th. My exhibition is called Companions and will feature new paintings and rugs hung side by side in the Flex Space Gallery.

Companions continues my investigations into tension between abstraction and representation.

To create this current work it helps to travel outside my home. Home is wonderful and should be explored but there is an excitement and a bit of wonder that comes from leaving your known. I am always noticing details and visually studying the world around me, translating spaces, and experiences that were in and are in public view. I make this work from sketches in the studio and at times using memory and feelings to recreate the space as well.

A few years ago I started making rugs in addition to my paintings and started to notice that I would tuft and paint different versions of the same story. These pairings became companions. Two pieces connected together through feeling and emotion.

I'm in a group show up right now at Dominican University, 7900 W. Division, River Forest. Il. The Slowly, With Care, show is up till March 6th, and has wonderful works by Joanna Aono, Sherri Denault, Kate Ingold, Jeffly Gabriela Molina, and Gwendolyn Zabicki.
It's worth the trip.

O'Connor Art Gallery
Dominican University | 7900 W. Division St. | River Forest, IL 60305
January 29 – March 6, 2020

Videokaffe will take part in Togetherism, at Co-Prosperity Sphere this November.

I am in a show at Kunsthuis Gallery, Shades of Clay, opening in November.

I will also be in a group show at Dominican University in 2020

I have been invited to be a member of Videokaffe an international artist collective. The Joshua Tree, an interactive sculpture, standing 17 ft high, in Nacka, Sweden was my inaugural art work with the group.

Terrain Biennial 1 Oct - 17 Nov.
A Transponder, a weaving from the trees, will be at Compound Yellow.

In Pursuit of Error is a research project that explores the unintended and unexpected in photography – images that wander from the path of convention by accident or design.

Two of my unintended photos were posted to the project on July 5, 2019

https://inpursuitoferror.co.uk/contributions/

I am experimenting with Patreon to help support my art practice. I have a number of levels people can support my projects at including insights into my working method, haikus, postcards and original works of art. I’d really appreciate your feedback and support! Thank you!

https://www.patreon.com/hollyholmes