February 5 – March 4, 2000
TOM HOLLAND’s recent works are the latest installment of an ongoing ten-year series of paintings inspired by the insects and wildlife of Northern California. In this new work the subject matter is distilled down to reveal nuances of form and color, derived both from observation in nature and his own interpretations from earlier in the series. The exhibition includes both freestanding pieces and wall-reliefs meticulously constructed of geometric shapes cut from aluminum sheets. These are then painted with colorful abstract forms that alternately obscure or emphasize their method of construction. Their richly textured surfaces meld the industrial with the handmade and ingeniously blur the distinction between painting and sculpture.
TOM HOLLAND’s current body of work is the result of a career that has spanned over three decades. Before the late sixties, HOLLAND painted recognizable imagery in traditional mediums. After 1967, he began exploring the sculptural possibilities of his work, predating Frank Stella in the explosion of painting into three dimensions. It was at this time that easily identifiable content was subsumed into an interpretive abstraction, reflecting the formal concerns of Abstract Expressionism, Constructivism, and the artist’s association with the San Francisco “Bay Area” school.
TOM HOLLAND has shown extensively across the United States and
abroad. His work is represented in
major public and private collections such as the San Francisco Museum of Modern
Art, the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, the Whitney Museum of American Art, the
Chicago Art Institute, and the Brooklyn Museum of Art.
The exhibition will be on view at the Charles Cowles Gallery interim location at 74 Grand Street, between Greene and Wooster Streets in SoHo. Hours are 10am to 6pm, Tuesday through Saturday. There will be a reception for the artist on Friday, February 4th, from 6 to 8 pm.
For further information or photographs, please contact the gallery.
Catalogues of past exhibitions are available.