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Posted on December 12, 2017

Holly Roberts: 33 Years
Holly Roberts
January 11 – March 4, 2018

Reception January 18, 2018 7-8:30 PM
Gallery Walk/Talk with Holly Roberts at 6 PM

Wild dog running
© Holly Roberts, “Wild Dog Running”, 2011 courtesy Catherine Edelman Gallery, Chicago
Man on horse riding through a forest
© Holly Roberts, “Forest Rider”, 2013 courtesy of Craig Krull Gallery, CA
Mother with babies on her back
© Holly Roberts, “Mother with Babies (on her back)”, 2009

 On January 11, 2018, the Griffin Museum opens with “Holly Roberts: 33 Years,” an exhibition of mixed media artwork by Holly Roberts.
“Holly Roberts: 33 Years” will showcase in the Main Gallery of the Griffin Museum of Photography in Winchester, MA from January 11 – March 4, 2018. An opening reception (Free for all) takes place on Thursday, January 18, 2018, 7 – 8:30 p.m. There will be a gallery walk/talk with the artist at 6 PM on January 18, 2018. The gallery walk/talk is free for members and is $10 for nonmembers.

Holly Roberts says, “I have been experimenting with different ways of making images for the past few years, but always with paint and photography as the driving forces.” Her work has continued to evolve, but she has reversed her original process of heavily overpainting the black and white silver print. She now works on top of a painted surface, developing a narrative scene with collaged photographic elements. Where earlier pieces reflected psychological or emotional undercurrents, newer works make use of familiar or iconic stories to address tougher questions about man’s effect on the land and the animals that inhabit it.

“My photographic imagery is widely varied, all the way from specific portraits of people or animals to photos of rocks, leaves, or even dead moths—material I can use to build textures and surfaces.”  She goes on to say, “I have also begun to work with transfers, something I have taught for years but never really integrated into my own work. I am seduced by the magic of taking something and making it live as something else.  And, most recently, I have gone back to working with oil paints, something I gave up 13 years ago in favor of acrylics.”

“What has resulted is a wide variety of images, still with my own view of the world at their core, says Roberts. “Animals, people, and people as animals are my most constant themes.  Portraits of men and women have become a larger part of what I do.  Horses, dogs, and birds are the animals I use predominantly since those are the animals I feel most connected to.  If I can find any one theme that runs through my work, it would be a subtle kind of loneliness or feeling of separateness, at times mixed with odd humor.”

Paula Tognarelli, executive director of the Griffin Museum says, “In the trilogy of shows opening in Winchester on January 11, 2018, if there is a common element that links each to the other, it is the ability of the artists to disclose personal psychologies without vulnerability. It is this show of openness that draws us to the artists and their art-making process.”

Holly Roberts, born in Boulder, Colorado, earned an M.F.A. from Arizona State University, Tempe, in 1981. Her artworks mixing photography with paint and other media are found in close to forty corporate and public collections, exhibited nationally and internationally, and have been published in three major monographs. She has twice received National Endowment for the Arts Fellowships. Holly currently lives and works in Corrales, New Mexico, with her husband, Robert Wilson.

Known for its Native American heritage, New Mexico, surrounded by desert, is a place where indigenous ideology and Western beliefs merge, creating a magical area filled with a sense of history and spirituality — elements essential to Roberts and her work. In 1980, while living on a Zuni reservation in New Mexico, Roberts quietly painted on photographs she had taken of her husband, children, animals and friends. The results of her efforts was startling, as her work was embraced across the country for its innovative style and psychological dramas which confront the anguish, joy, challenges and complexities involved in daily life.

Holly Roberts is represented by Tilt Gallery, Scottsdale, AZ, Craig Krull Gallery, Santa Monica, CA, Morpeth Contemporary, Hopewell, NJ, Turner Carroll Gallery, Santa Fe, NM and Catherine Edelman Gallery, Chicago, IL.

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Amy Rindskopf's Terra Novus

At the market, I pick each one up, pulled in by the shapes as they sit together, waiting. I feel its heft in my hand, enjoy the textures of the skin or peel, and begin to look closer and closer. The patterns on each individual surface marks them as distinct. I push further still, discovering territory unseen by the casual observer, a new land. I am like a satellite orbiting a distant planet, taking the first-ever images of this newly envisioned place.

This project started as an homage to Edward Weston’s Pepper No. 30 (I am, ironically, allergic to peppers). As I looked for my subject matter at the market, I found that I wasn’t drawn to just one single fruit or vegetable. There were so many choices, appealing to both hand and eye. I decided to print in black and white to help make the images visually more about the shapes, and not about guessing which fruit is smoothest, which vegetable is greenest.

Artistic Purpose/Intent

Artistic Purpose/Intent

Tricia Gahagan

 

Photography has been paramount in my personal path of healing from disease and

connecting with consciousness. The intention of my work is to overcome the limits of the

mind and engage the spirit. Like a Zen koan, my images are paradoxes hidden in plain

sight. They are intended to be sat with meditatively, eventually revealing greater truths

about the world and about one’s self.

 

John Chervinsky’s photography is a testament to pensive work without simple answers;

it connects by encouraging discovery and altering perspectives. I see this scholarship

as a potential to continue his legacy and evolve the boundaries of how photography can

explore the human condition.

 

Growing my artistic skill and voice as an emerging photographer is critical, I see this as

a rare opportunity to strengthen my foundation and transition towards an established

and influential future. I am thirsty to engage viewers and provide a transformative

experience through my work. I have been honing my current project and building a plan

for its complete execution. The incredible Griffin community of mentors and the

generous funds would be instrumental for its development. I deeply recognize the

hallmark moment this could be for the introduction of the work. Thank you for providing

this incredible opportunity for budding visions and artists that know they have something

greater to share with the world.

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