EXHIBITION: Big Head (Thinking)
INVENTORY SPOTLIGHT
Holly Roberts
Friday, March 15 – Saturday, April 20, 2024
OPENING RECEPTION | Friday, March 15, from 5-8 pm
Candela Gallery is pleased to share three solo features by artists incorporating the photographic image from the perspectives of ceramics and painting. These exhibitions open Friday, March 15th, running alongside the 2024 NCECA ceramics conference (March 20 – 23) and closing Saturday, April 20th, 2024.
Holly Roberts, Hungry Cat, 2009. Mixed Media, 32 x 48 inches. Unique. INQUIRE.
ABOUT THE EXHIBITION
In the second gallery space, we share a fresh selection of inventory by mixed media artist, Holly Roberts. Roberts pulls fragments from photographs, intuitively collaging them and combining them with layers of varying muted paints to conjoin human and beast, mundane with the mystical. This latest selection of thirteen works, spanning twelve years of Roberts’ process, will include imagery of anthropomorphic creatures, mythical moments, and patchwork portraiture ranging in size from intimate to grand.
Big Head (Thinking), 2014. Mixed Media, 47 x 30 inches. Unique. INQUIRE.
Holly Roberts, Rabbit Walking, 2020. Mixed Media, 20 x 10 inches. Unique. INQUIRE.
ABOUT THE ARTIST
Holly Roberts, born in Santa Fe, New Mexico, earned an M.F.A. from Arizona State University, Tempe, in 1981. Her pieces are nationally and internationally exhibited and have been published in three monographs as well as a comprehensive catalog published by the Griffin Museum of Photography to accompany her retrospective there. She has twice received National Endowment for the Arts Fellowships, as well as the Ferguson Grant from the friends of Photography. In 2024, Roberts will have a retrospective at The Museum of Photographic Art in San Diego (MOPA), and is planning a monograph of her work to accompany the exhibit. She currently lives and works in Corrales, New Mexico with her husband, Robert Wilson.