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① Artwork:
Mirror
In this painting, a certain tension between ascendant and descendant currents is felt as an expression of the contrasting forces that comprise the cosmos. Approaching the canvas as a heterogeneous space, the artist floods the canvas almost instinctively, amounting to unexpected and uncontrolled surfaces.
Frank Holliday’s paintings burst with vibrant yet contrasting colors. As an artist, he fully embraces the idea of élan vital explored by Henri Bergson, in which the vital force, a principle of creativity in all organisms, is responsible for evolution. Holliday fumbles and searches through his paintings, seemingly caught in limbo between hell and paradise, eros and thanatos, and ecstasy and suffering.
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③ Artist:
Frank Holliday’s paintings burst with vibrant yet contrasting colors. As an artist, he fully embraces the idea of élan vital explored by Henri Bergson, in which the vital force, a principle of creativity in all organisms, is responsible for evolution. Holliday fumbles and searches through his paintings, seemingly caught in limbo between hell and paradise, eros and thanatos, and ecstasy and suffering.
Frank Holliday was born in 1957 in Greensboro, NC. He earned his BFA from the School of Visual Arts in New York City, NY, and the San Francisco Art Institute in San Francisco, CA.
Holliday has been featured in exhibitions at Swivel Gallery in Brooklyn, NY; Mucciaccia Gallery in New York City, NY, and Singapore; the Carlo Bilotti Museum in Rome, Italy; the Museum of Modern Art in New York City, NY; the Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art in Geneva, Switzerland; and many other institutions.
His work is in the collections of the Weatherspoon Museum in Greensboro, NC, and the Museum of Modern Art in New York City, NY.
In this painting, a certain tension between ascendant and descendant currents is felt as an expression of the contrasting forces that comprise the cosmos. Approaching the canvas as a heterogeneous space, the artist floods the canvas almost instinctively, amounting to unexpected and uncontrolled surfaces.More
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