FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE


Tom Holland

New Work


January 11 - February 8, 2003


TOM HOLLAND's current exhibition is the latest installment of an ongoing ten-year series inspired by the wildlife and environment of Northern California. In this new work the subject matter is distilled down to reveal the nuances of form and color. The exhibition includes wall panels meticulously constructed of geometric shapes cut from aluminum sheets and riveted together. 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 four decades. In the early sixties, although HOLLAND painted recognizable imagery with traditional media, his surfaces were heavily textured and the canvases were irregularly shaped. After 1967, he began exploring the sculptural possibilities of his work by exploding painting into three dimensions. It was at this time that easily identifiable content was subsumed into interpretive abstraction, reflecting the formal concerns of Abstract Expressionism, Constructivism, and the artist's association with the San Francisco "Bay Area" school.

HOLLAND's works are in distinguished museum collections including the Museum of Modern Art, New York; the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York; the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; the Art Institute of Chicago; the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, DC; the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; and the Los Angeles County Museum of Art.

The exhibition will be on view at the Charles Cowles Gallery, 537 West 24th Street, between 10th and 11th Avenues in Chelsea. Hours are 10am to 6pm, Tuesday through Saturday.

There will be a reception for the artist on Friday, January 10 from 6-8 pm.

For further information or photographs, please contact the gallery.

Above image: Pope Creek #54, 2002, epoxy on aluminum, 74 x 52