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Holly Holmes

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Personal Statement

Holly Holmes received her MFA from the School of Art Institute of Chicago in May 2011. She is a painter, sculptor, educator and curator living in Oak Park, IL. Holmes is faculty at the School of the Art Institute Chicago. Some recent exhibitions include, the Ann Metzger Memorial National Juried Exhibition, St Louis, MO, Art for Aleppo, New York, Compound Gallery, Oakland, CA, Elmhurst Biennial, Elmhurst, IL, Northeastern University, Chicago, IL; University Illinois Springfield, Il: Tianjin, China, Firecat Projects, Chicago, IL; Aqua Art Miami, Miami, Fl.

Over the past couple of years, I have been working with a tension between abstraction and representation. The work often but not exclusively, uses multiples in painting and sculpture. The work varies from an abstracted versions of bonded elements and cells to up risings of culture and the world around me. Within the work one can read the visual language and titles and gain a better access to the meaning that continue through my work.

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This studio course focuses on themes, practices, contexts, and questions undertaken by contemporary artists and designers. Research Studio I is a course that asks students to begin to develop and connect their own work and ideas with a diverse range of artists, designers, and communities. This course engages with cultural institutions including: museums, galleries, libraries and archives as resources of critical engagement.

Students will undertake various types of research activities: a) collecting and classification, b) mapping and diagramming, c) systems of measurement, d) social interaction, e) information search systems, f) recording and representation, and g) drawing and other notational systems.


Assignments in this course are faculty directed, open-media, interdisciplinary and idea based. The projects are designed to help students recognize their work habits, biases, strengths, and weaknesses. Students will experience a wide range of research methods and making strategies. Critique as an evaluative process used in art and design schools, is a focus in this course. Various methods and models of critique are used in order to give students the tools to discuss their own work and the work of others.

Class Number

1251

Credits

3