The Holland Project Gallery

2013 Scholastic Art Awards

noreply@blogger.com (Anonymous) — Thu, 28 Feb 2013 05:21:00 +0000

Through My Eyes by Tomi Souder

For a second year, the Holland Project Gallery will be hosting the annual Scholastic Art Awards in partnership with the Nevada Museum of Art. This exhibition showcases the best in Northern Nevada middle and high school art and will feature 100+ pieces ranging from sculpture to printmaking. The Gold Key pieces will be on display in the gallery with the Silver Key pieces featured digitally. The Nevada Museum of Art will be exhibiting the American Visions nominations through April 1, 2013.

The exhibit runs March 8 – March 29, 2013 with an opening reception Fri. March 8, 6-8PM. The NMA will also host an awards ceremony on Thur. March 14 6-7PM.

Built to Weather

noreply@blogger.com (Anonymous) — Thu, 17 Jan 2013 02:16:00 +0000

Opening this Fri. Jan. 18 from 6-8PM will be Built to Weather featuring nine nationally recognized snowboard photographers. Curated by Chris Carnel, the images span 30 years of a sport that has some heavy roots in the region. The photographers include: Mike Basich, Tim Peare, Tom Sims, Ian Ruhter, Chris Carnel, Mike Yoshida, Paul Laca, Bud Fawcett and Jim Zellers with Richard Leversee. The images themselves feature pinnacle, historical moments involving iconic individuals that have lived and breathed the life.

Building from his involvement in documenting snowboarding, Chris' perspective on the work is like a quick walk through snowboard history. To really encompass his voice, the gallery is releasing a limited edition zine on the night of the opening ($3, 100 ed.). The zine not only expands on the photographers featured in the show, but also gives some first hand perspective of the shots.

To wrap up the show, on February 2^nd 1 PM at the Nevada Museum of Art for $5, will be a screening of Basich’s short movie Open Space with a Q&A to follow. Chris Carnel (Basich is in Europe then) and Ian Ruhter will be speaking about their involvement in documenting the sport; Ruhter from both sides of the camera. Ruhter will also elaborate on his cutting edge style of shooting (hint: it involves a camera truck and wet plates), his work in Built to Weather and being an ex-pro in the sport. Following the screening the gallery will be open from 2:30-3:30PM.

On the Horizon: Young Blood

noreply@blogger.com (Anonymous) — Thu, 27 Dec 2012 01:30:00 +0000

The holiday season mayhem is just pouring over into the gallery. We've got group shows galore coming down the pipeline, with the first being .... Young Blood.

The Young Blood show is a one-night only pop-up gallery exhibit for artists under twenty-one. Any and all artwork - any media, any genre - can be submitted. The Young Blood series will take place seasonally throughout the year, giving the young art crews of Reno a chance to shine up and showcase what they've been working on. It's also an opportunity to have a little hands-on action learning to install art.

The exhibit is Fri. Jan. 11 from 6-8PM at the Holland Project Gallery (140 Vesta St. Reno). It's $1 to get in and there will be food + music. Everyone's invited to come see the show.

If you want to participate, please email Sarah@hollandreno.org to sign-up. Once you sign-up, all you have to do is show up with your art on Thur. Jan. 10 between 4-8PM to hang your work with a gallery committee member. After the show, you can pick it back up on Sat. Jan. 12 10AM-Noon.

On the Horizon: These Truths & Basement Eyes

noreply@blogger.com (Anonymous) — Wed, 12 Dec 2012 01:03:00 +0000

Dec. 17, 2012 - Jan. 4, 2013 The Holland Project Gallery hallway will feature handmade books by the likes of local artist Megan Matthers. Comprised into three books, These Truths showcases a collection of both images and selected writings from the artist's journals documented over the past two years. Working in analog and Polaroid photography, Matthers work expresses a tender and poignant perspective of Nevada and the longing of exploration. The opening reception is 6-8PM Fri. Dec. 21.

During the same time as These Truths the main gallery space will be featuring the skills of Denali Lowder, Joshua Dean Hageman, Aubrey Banks and Jaron Coxson. In the words of co-curator Omar Pierce: "A solid gang of closet shredders, the four artists that make up Basement Eyes share a quiet compulsion to illustrate from within dimly-lit bedrooms, free of expectation and with no spotlight in mind. Work that patiently waits on show-house walls, drum heads, mix-tapes and handbills for the right moment to hit. Basement Eyes seeks to reveal a breed of unconstrained art-maker that never hesitates to lay down a permanent mark." The opening reception is also Fri. Dec. 21, 2012 from 6-8PM.

Valley of Shadows and Dreams

noreply@blogger.com (Anonymous) — Fri, 07 Dec 2012 00:04:00 +0000

Ken Light

While in the Bay Area this weekend, we went to the Oakland Museum of California. In addition to more exhibits than could be squeezed into the two hours we had, their California Photography Gallery was featuring Ken and Melanie Light's exhibition Valley of Shadows and Dreams. The thirty-one images (also featured in a book by the same title) were taken over the course of five years of the Lights spanning, exploring and documenting the agricultural mecca of California's Central Valley.

Some of Ken's photos encompass the expansive landscape of agricultural fields while other narrow in on individuals like a girl around the corner of a house hugging a stuffed animal while a moving truck fills up the driveway. Throughout the exhibit is Melanie's writing as wall text. Her observations and commentary run parallel to the conversation already begun by the images and not only heightens understanding of what is occurring in the Valley, but evokes an emotional response. From real estate developments to the issue of water rights to the treatment of migrant workers, the Lights cover all angles of producing a $36 billion regional food industry.

"We were astonished by the frenzy of development there. Massive tracts of agricultural land were being turned into cul de sacs and suburban neighborhoods. Though we started to explore that story, we soon discovered a complex web that went far beyond residential development. As we witnessed the real estate bubble implode in the valley, we expanded our story to what I can only describe as a slow motion train wreck of unsustainability. This project gripped me at many levels because the issues are played out in the valley American style but they are the global challenges of our generation: water, land use, population, growing economic disparity. It will be fascinating to see how the pressure between a growing population and the limits of the earth unfolds; how the challenges are met or how we fail to find a model for sustainability." -Melanie Light

It has been almost a week since I saw the exhibit and the implications of the work and our agricultural system are still haunting me.

Rogue Art+Craft Village

noreply@blogger.com (Anonymous) — Thu, 22 Nov 2012 00:35:00 +0000

Holland Project and Go For Broke Collective have combined forces for a third year to host the Rogue Art+Craft Village. Bringing together the best local makers, creators and finders, the 20+ vendors will serve up anything from pottery to plushies. In addition to the shopping, at 2PM there will be a $5 holiday card making workshop. Add in DJs, coffee, a Holland Editions Print Sale and a hand printed wrapping paper station and you've got all your local holiday goods in one stop. The Art+Craft event is Sun. Dec. 9 from 10AM-4PM at 140 Vesta St.

2010 Rogue Art+Craft Village

On the Horizon: In Other Worlds

noreply@blogger.com (Anonymous) — Thu, 08 Nov 2012 01:33:00 +0000

Merging the lines of myth, reality and the creation of memories, In Other Worlds pairs out-of-town artists Kate Csillagi (Austin, TX), Andy Le (Mukilteo, WA) and Lucie van der Elst (Paris, FR). Together the three artists’ work provides an exploration of the fantastical and the everyday through a variety of mediums from fabric to painting to paper-cutting. The exhibit runs Nov. 5-30 with an opening Fri. Nov. 9 6-8PM followed by music by Nucular Aminals, Spitting Image and Thee Indoors as well as a puppet show of Penny and Her Lower Case Kindred. Gallery hours are Tues-Fri 3-6PM.

Storm Chasers, Kate Csillagi

A fiber and mixed-media artist from Austin, Texas, Kate Csillagi’s pieces stand out in the exhibition due to their scale and density. Her large fabric tapestries and collages share quixotic storylines of mythology, beasts and the power of female endurance.

Untitled 1, Andy Le

Working on a smaller scale, Mukilteo, WA artist Andy Le utilizes image transfers and painting, specifically gouache and oil, to create his series featured in In Other Worlds. Le’s collection of work explores the construction of memories rooted in a family's photo archive. By transferring his own family photographs onto canvas and isolating the figures, Le breaks down the "realities" that the images initially represent.

Hydra, Lucie van der Elst

As the gallery's first international (France) artist, Lucie van der Elst brings a sense of whimsy to the group exhibition. Elst's featured paper-cut pieces delve into the metamorphosis and polymorphism of human mythologies. The works' combination of bright colors and childish shapes contrasted with dark backgrounds and spooky shades morph the line between innocence and complexity. Together the three artists' work provides an exploration of the fantastical and the everyday.

Pairings: Nan Goldin and Pink

noreply@blogger.com (Anonymous) — Sat, 20 Oct 2012 00:41:00 +0000

Nan Goldin The Ballard of Sexual Dependency

Read the intro to Goldin's 1986 book here. Then watch the choreography of Pink's music video Try.

Pup Love

noreply@blogger.com (Anonymous) — Sat, 13 Oct 2012 00:27:00 +0000

"The one absolutely unselfish friend that a man can have in this selfish world, the one that never deserts him and the one that never proves ungrateful or treacherous is his dog." -George Graham Vest

Coon Dog Cemetery


Alabama Coon Dog Cemetery

Near Cherokee, Alabama is the nations only Coon Dog Cemetery. Started in 1937, when Key Underwood buried his raccoon-hunting dog Troop at his favorite hunting spot. Since then over 300 dogs have been buried next to Troop. Now every Labor Day the Tennessee Valley Coon Hunter’s Association gather at the cemetery to celebrate the inauguration of the space.

entrance sculpture

Erik Tidemann

Norwegian artist Erik Tidemann's work combines extremes: mayhem, subcultures, death, taxidermy and trash culture.. to name some. In 2007, for the exhibit The Future Can Wait, he created a piece as a memorial to his dog, Chico.

Chico Holding His Ashes

In an interview in Dazed Digital Tidemann described the piece:

"In The Future Can Wait I give an alternative burial to my dog that died this June. He is standing on two legs with his eyes closed like some small soldier. He is holding a Paris Hilton-ish glittery fur bag containing his ashes. So he is carrying his insides. What I like about this piece is the fact I will always have my dog and can move around with him after he is dead and I don't need to go to his burial spot without being able to see and feel him. It's a sort of a portable grave."

The Painted Desert Project

noreply@blogger.com (Anonymous) — Sat, 06 Oct 2012 01:10:00 +0000


Jestsonorama

It's hard to cut up Chip Thomas' words on this project to make it shorter, quicker to breeze through. The context is just as important as the content. Soak it up.

Direct from the ol' FB:

The Painted Desert (map of sites: http://goo.gl/maps/z3wxj)

"If you look at a map of northern Arizona along Highway 89 about 65 miles north of Flagstaff, most maps identify that part of the Colorado Plateau as The Painted Desert. This area of the high desert (elevation between 5000 – 7000 feet) is characterized by hues of red, pink, orange, beige and brown. In the spring pinion, juniper and sage plants add a blast of green to this palate.

One of my first installations went up on a roadside stand on this stretch of Highway 89. The stand had fallen into disrepair and didn’t have much time left in a vertical position. The image I pasted was of Navajo Code Talkers.

A week later when I passed by there were guys repairing the stand. Curious as to what was going on, I stopped and asked what they were doing. They owned the stand and said they’d decided to start using it again since so many people were stopping to take pictures of the Code Talkers. When I told them I placed the photo there, they asked for a photo on the other side to stop traffic coming north from Flagstaff. The stand owner’s name is Hugo Hernandez. We later became friends when he let me do installations on the frame of his home which construction has stalled on for the past 9 years.

I waited and waited for Hugo to paint the south facing wall. After a month of no paint, I painted it myself and pasted that wall as well. A week later I almost caused an accident when I glanced over at the stand and saw beautiful linoleum block print wheat pastes. I think this must have been the feeling some people tell me about when they see my work pasted in the desert for the first time. I was so excited. I did a u-turn and checked out the work. I remember writing in my journal that I didn’t know who the artist was but was thrilled to be in dialogue with him or her.

I’d discovered the street art blogs Vandalog + Unurth by this point. A blog posting appeared of Hugo’s stand identifying Yote’s work and to me as “artist unknown.” Through Unurth I found Yote. We met, were simpatico and have done several collaborations since then. We talked recently and weren’t surprised to learn that we’d each been nurturing the dream of inviting some of our favorite street artists out to the rez to give it some love. It also wasn’t surprising that our dream lists included the same people.

As noted above, Hugo’s stand where Yote and I started our dialogue is just across the highway from the stretch of earth maps identify as The Painted Desert, thus the name of our project.

People here live simple, humble lives and are still very much attached to the land. They herd sheep, goats and cows. Many people do this by horseback still. One of the ways some people supplement their meager income is by selling turquoise or beaded jewelry and hand woven rugs along the roadside in homemade stands like Hugo’s. In the 2 and 1/2 years I've been doing my wheat pasting project, I've developed close relationships with several families of vendors. They want art on their stands because more tourists stop to check out their goods.

Meanwhile, vendors along Highway 89 North have told me that the Arizona Department of Transportation has determined that homemade roadside stands without designated turning lanes are a traffic hazard in that drivers exit the highway carelessly to check out the jewelry. The vendors reported that ADOT has said that the stands have to be down by 2014 (though a vendor told me recently that the stands can stay until 2020).

So Yote and I are rallying to get artists we love and respect to paint the stands. The purpose of the project is three-fold. It’ll increase interactions between travelers and the local population hopefully fostering dialogue and challenging negative stereotypes. The second objective is to involve youth from the local communities in mural making workshops and thirdly, we’ll have incredible art along the roadside in northern Arizona."

Jetsonorama

Creatures of Cait Finley

noreply@blogger.com (Anonymous) — Thu, 04 Oct 2012 00:36:00 +0000

Opening Thur. Oct. 11 from 6-8PM will be 80 Million Gallon Summer, 40 Million Gallon Winter, sculptures by the Montana artist Cait Finley. For this exhibit Finley has focused on the specific species that inhabit the Great Basin and Truckee River. Combining found objects with ceramic fauna and flora and presenting them like a natural science museum, the work is a physical merging of the relics of mankind along with delicacies of nature.

The exhibit runs Oct. 8-26 with gallery hours Tues-Fri 3-6PM. The opening reception coincides with the opening of The Third Annual Stranger Show in the main gallery space.

Cait Finley's Studio

Riding the Long White Cloud

noreply@blogger.com (Anonymous) — Fri, 28 Sep 2012 00:03:00 +0000

Art of the adventure.

Bikes+Skateboards+New Zealand= Bewitching

The open road calls.

Riding the Long White Cloud Part 1 from predatory bird on Vimeo.

Modern Ciphers

noreply@blogger.com (Anonymous) — Thu, 13 Sep 2012 00:40:00 +0000

Pairing Seattle glass artist Tyler Kimball with Reno collage artist Gordon Magnin, Modern Ciphers explores the alchemy of images and connectivity of symbols across medias. Featured in the gallery are Kimball’s large glass shuttlecocks as well as multiple diptych collages by Magnin. Both artists take commonly placed imagery and symbols, altering or enlarging them to re-create their context, whether it’s personal or cultural.

In conjunction with the exhibit, on Wed. Sept. 12 Tyler Kimball will be doing glass work demonstrations for free at Burnt Knuckle Glass from 7-10PM. The studio is located at 1236 Glendale Ave. #104 Sparks, NV.

We also have some of Gordon Magnin's zines for sale during the exhibit. 5 bones each and real easy on the eyes.

The exhibit runs Sept. 10-28 with gallery hours Tues-Fri 3-6PM.

Art Lust: Helena Almeida

noreply@blogger.com (Anonymous) — Tue, 04 Sep 2012 23:26:00 +0000


Desenho habitado

Born in 1934 in Lisbon, Portugal, Helena Almeida first began exhibiting her artwork in 1967 after graduating from the Fine Arts University of Lisbon. Her work breaks from the constraints of the canvas, exploring and combining painting, drawing and photographic images. Most of her work occurs in private performances that her husband helps to record. The fact that she claims neither photography or drawing or performance art as her media further exemplifies her ability to "explore the limits of painting, transforming ideas and experiences into images".


Estudo para um Enriquecimento Interio

For Study for Inner Improvement (1977) is a sequence of her photos where Almeida appears to eat the color blue. This color references Klein Blue, the shade of blue used by the artists Yves Klein. Almeida eating the color can be taken as her protesting Klein's Anthropométries, a body of work where he used female models as "paintbrushes" covering them with blue paint and dragging them across the canvas to make marks.

The Trading Tortoise

noreply@blogger.com (Anonymous) — Thu, 23 Aug 2012 00:40:00 +0000

This Saturday August 25 from 3-5PM, the Holland Project is hosting The Trading Tortoise. This touring art installation is the baby of LA-based artists Souther Salazar and Monica Choy. Traveling across America and Canada their five month tour will culminate with an exhibition at the Jonathan Levine Gallery in New York City. We proud to sit somewhere in the middle of their criss-crossing road trip- art adventure.

The Trading Tortoise itself is a large sculptural installation shaped as a tortoise with the trading post inside. Visitors and traders take a seat on the rug in front and haul out their treasures and artifacts to share. People are encouraged to bring an object that has a tale behind it, even if the lore is made up. Salazar and Choy then loot through their bounty from other stops and pick a similar object to trade. All of the pieces are documented so that you'll be able to learn the history of and follow the path of the trade you have shared and received

The trading post will be open from 3-5pm and admission is free. Choy and Salazar will also have some of their own work and projects available for purchase during trading hour. Trades are limited, so come by early.

Banging a Dead Drum

noreply@blogger.com (Anonymous) — Thu, 09 Aug 2012 00:31:00 +0000

Next Fri. August 17, the Holland Project Gallery will host the release of Banging a Dead Drum, a limited-edition book of Omar Pierce's photography including writing by Nick Larsen. The release of the book marks almost four years of work as well as the intersecting point when Omar and Nick initially began collaborating.

The importance of Banging a Dead Drum lies not only in the celebration of local, independent publishing, but also in the documentation and tactile experience of moving through an artist's body of work. With exhibitions rotating through monthly or seasonally, a book allows the viewer to savor and connect with the images. It also creates an intimacy between the reader and the artist; an intimacy that Omar's work thrives in.

At 126 pages, Banging a Dead Drum, almost ironically, features all Instamatic 126 photographs. The camera and particularly the film are pretty much extinct, but in their heyday were considered a low-cost, approachable form of photography. Omar received his first Instamatic 126 camera from his grandfather when he was seven. The present included 20 rolls of film and wood photo albums to place the images in. This camera became his first "art-making tool".

Fast forward to the early 2000's, while working on his BFA at UNR, Omar began shooting with the Instamatic again, drawn to the low quality of the images and how they were "humble art photographs". Following graduation, Nick Larsen approached Omar about this work with the idea of publishing an art book. That conversation became the birth of a long-term commitment and the development of a collaborative pair now well known in the Reno arts community.

To select photographs for the book, Omar worked through 100 rolls of deadstock film editing down the images to three chapters/ideas. Throughout the process of shooting, editing and printing, Nick was a collaborating voice and sounding board, which is evident in his writing throughout the book.

Formatted to reflect those first 12-page photo albums from his grandfather, each page was physically assembled then digitally scanned. Laid out with the familiarity of a family album, the book mixes Nevada nostalgia with intimate experiences to create a continual shift between the very large and the very small of moments.

A Q&A with Nick and Omar, moderated by Jon Shown, begins promptly at 6:30PM on Fri. Aug. 17 followed by the opening reception of their exhibit Heavy Forever from 7-9PM. The 250 numbered editions will be for sale ($20) during the opening reception/release and for the duration of the exhibition (Aug. 13-31) at the Holland Project Gallery.

Forage 2012

noreply@blogger.com (Anonymous) — Thu, 26 Jul 2012 00:26:00 +0000

This Saturday July 28 is the 3rd annual Forage: A Roaming Gallery. Starting at 4PM at the Holland Project at 140 Vesta St, Forage is a group bike ride through midtown and downtown Reno. With four different "stops" participants get to experience visual, performance and interactive art at each location. From 4-10PM this is what's going down:

Strychnine Divine

Scott Greenwalt

Solar Theremins

Soundscape

Kyle Akins Installation

Seed Bomb Making Station

Potion Station

Erik Burke Installation

Bike Obstacle Course

Zinc War Paint

Bubble Bike

Boombox Bike

Merit Badges

Clint Sleeper Performance

Miracle Fruit

Insta-Snow

3D Printer

Smokey Bubbles

Ferrofluid

Spitting Image

Non-Newtonian Fluid

Confetti Volcano

Food Trucks

Sci-Fi Film Odyssey w/Live Score

Atey Ate DJ

Rooftop After-Party

Mini Hot Air Balloons

Photo Backdrop

July is Making It Happen

noreply@blogger.com (Anonymous) — Thu, 12 Jul 2012 23:48:00 +0000

This month is nutso at Holland. Art and creating galore.

July 16 - August 3, the gallery will be hosting Strychnine Divine, an exhibition curated by local painter Ashley Westwood. Strychnine Divine is an exaltation of the pseudosciences and blurs the line between occult practices and antiquated scientific methods. As a part of Forage: A Roaming Gallery this show features the work of Oakland based artist Scott Greenwalt in conjunction with Kyle Akins, Alana Berglund, Jen Graham, Eunkang Koh, Dominique Palladino, Sophia Pierce and Jon Purtill.

On Sat. July 28, the Holland Project will be putting on it's third year of Forage: A Roaming Gallery. Staring at 4PM at the Holland Project Gallery on 140 Vesta St, Forage takes participants on a group bike tour through midtown and downtown Reno with stops at McKinley Arts Center, Nevada Discovery Museum and Nevada Museum of Art. Each "stop" will feature art, music and mini-adventures including solar theremins, ride-by art installations, a bike obstacle course, a non-Newtonian pool, confetti volcano, local band Spitting Image, science exploration stations, food trucks. The afternoon culminates at the NMA with a sci-fi film odyssey accompanied by a new live original score performed by local musicians and members of the Reno Youth Philharmonic followed by a rooftop party with a mini hot air balloon launch. This event is one day only, free and open to everyone!

Spend an evening feeding your music making side by leaning how to build a solar theremin. On Tues. June 24 at 7PM Morgan Travis will teach you the basics of soldering and electrical construction. $5 covers materials and the workshop will run about 90 mins. RSVP to sarah@hollandreno.org to save a spot.

Freedom to Create

noreply@blogger.com (Anonymous) — Fri, 06 Jul 2012 00:04:00 +0000

In honor of yesterday's celebration of America's independence, I'd like to tip my hat to the awesome places people have created here.


House on the Rock

In Wisconsin lies an assault on all senses, House on the Rock. The brainchild of Alex Jordan, the house and its surrounding structures host an overwhelming collection of damn near everything. Carousels, mannequins, antiques, music machines, three horses of the apocalypse, Escher-eque stairways, a three-story tall sea monster.... the tour tells you to plan for 6 hours to make it through everything. There are numerous myths surrounding the building of the structures including Jordan hiring drunks and bums from Madison and paying them in whiskey. It's a weird monolith to Jordan and crap hoarders worldwide.

Salvation Mountain

Across the country in Niland, California lies Salvation Mountain. The mountain is the on-going work of Leonard Knight, a driven visionary and creator. Working from adobe covered hay bales and house paint, Salvation Mountain is an interactive space that draws in people from around the globe. It's hard to really give justice to the feeling up pulling up a dirt road to a colorful mountain stating "God is Love" and people across all walks of life converging to experience Knight's masterpiece.

Forestiere Underground Gardens

Also in California, housed in the Central Valley is Forestiere's Underground Gardens. Beginning in 1906, Baldassare Forestiere spent 40 years digging and building 10 acres of rooms, tunnels and passageways. Originally inspired by his family's cellars in Sicily and motivated by the need to escape the oppressive Fresno heat, Forestiere began to make his home underground and eventually developed a means of cultivating citrus trees below the hardpan. Visiting here in the summer is an oasis from both the heat and the urban sprawl of the region.

These are just the tip of the iceberg for "outsider" spaces. There are so many more out there.

Around Town: STAND

noreply@blogger.com (Anonymous) — Fri, 29 Jun 2012 01:00:00 +0000

STAND by Lexi Boeger

Closing next Sunday, July 8 is STAND: An artist's salute to Nevada's Basque arborglyphs at Virginia City's St. Mary's Art Center. This Capital City Arts Initiative exhibit features pieces by the California-based fiber artist Lexi Boeger.

Image carved by the Lekumberry family in Gardnerville of their father and logo for the JT Basque Bar

The exhibit is tucked away in the attic gallery which feels perfect on so many level for the work. If you've had a chance to go to the Nevada Historical Society in the last few months, you'll immediately connect that these felted trees mirror arborglyphs. Arborglyphs were created by Basque sheepherders carving images and text into aspen trees and serve as a "silent testimony to the contribution of a group of immigrants to the creation of Nevada".

By felting wool from local sheep and inviting different Basque families in the region to create their own carvings in the material, Boeger's stand of "trees" gives a modern voice to an old custom and tradition. The tactility of the media and the attic nook deserve a drive up the Geiger to see... in fact I am probably going back for seconds.

New Skills

noreply@blogger.com (Anonymous) — Thu, 21 Jun 2012 00:07:00 +0000

This Saturday, June 23 local mistress-of-the-linocut, Alana Berglund, will be teaching a workshop on "suicide cuts". This type of reduction printing involves making a multi-color print using just one block. The workshop is $5 and runs from noon to 3pm. If you want to want to get on board, RSVP to sarah@hollandreno.org.

On the Horizon: Three Exhibitions in June

noreply@blogger.com (Anonymous) — Thu, 07 Jun 2012 22:38:00 +0000

From June 18 - July 6, 2012 the Holland Project Gallery will be hosting three exhibitions from four emerging artists. The opening reception is Fri. June 22, 7-9PM

Michelle's work in progress

Peter's work in progress

IN THE MAKING | Michelle and Peter Laxalt

Using her personal history as inspiration, UNR sculptural ceramics student Michelle Laxalt creates pieces that evoke a whimsical world of interactions and child-like wonder. In almost direct contrast, Peter Laxalt’s drawing and paintings merge design and graffiti aesthetic into exaggerated figures and forms. Combined the sibling’s work shares the thread of moving the viewer from the common world into a more fantastical one.

Kelly's work in progress

SOMETHING HONEST, NOTHING PROFOUND | Kelly Peyton

Kelly Peyton’s newest body of work centers on the personal impact of everyday concepts, quotes and statements. Utilizing thrift store frames, pen, ink and transferred images, Peyton creates pieces that explore and share how the seemingly cliche can become intimate.

Rachael's work in progress

HITHER & THITHER: A Celebration of the Temporal | Rachael Scala

In her first exhibition, Rachael Scala draws from her experiences as a native Nevadan to create an installation exploring the passing of time through Nevada’s seasons. With each of her four altars, Scala isolates the seasons while connecting them to the greater ebb and flow of life cycles.

Art Lust: Rashid Johnson

noreply@blogger.com (Anonymous) — Fri, 25 May 2012 23:34:00 +0000

Fatherhood as Described by Paul Beatty

The internet is a strange beast, by following a link trail and reading a really interesting interview, I discovered the work of Rashid Johnson. The Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago is currently featuring Johnson's first solo museum show, Message to Our Folks, which I am envious that I live on the other end of the country from.

Johnson grew up in Chicago splitting time between living with his mother and his father. Both parents' influences can be seen in his work: his mother's commitment to education and literature and his father's CB radio business and knowledge of electronics.


Black Yoga Communication Station

Johnson utilized photography, painting, video, sculpture and installations to explore his experiences "as a black man in America" as well as the effects of culture on African-Americans as a social group. After scrolling through so much "cute and simple" art online, it's so nice to sink my teeth into Johnson conceptually heavy and visually bold work. Also living in Northern Nevada, any commentary on the African-American experience is not something readily available, so we've got to seek it out and soak it up.


Barnburner

Other Aspects

Knots

noreply@blogger.com (Anonymous) — Fri, 18 May 2012 00:28:00 +0000

Knots could be considered one mankind's first tools. The understanding and ability to knot fibers meant ropes, clothing, rugs and ultimately larger accomplishments like sailing and bridge building. Of course from this very basic skill stems so much more.

Bonny

Serpent Sea is the brainchild of Sophie Aschauer. Utilizing recycled marine rope and a knowledge of sailor knots, Aschauer creates hand woven rugs.

Robin Moore

"It was a great deal of fun for the students to “goof off” in class and make interesting designs. What they didn’t count on was that it took dedicated effort and practice to become proficient at making figures. It took a focussed exactitude in performing a series of complex steps. This is exactly what it takes to become proficient at math and science." -James R. Murphy

James R. Murphy taught his La Guardia math students using string figures (cat's cradle). Student Robin Moore documented the students with their creations.

Awamaki

Peruvian weaving is a craft that is passed from generation to generation. The practice itself is rich with meaning and tradition. Awamaki is a Peruvian non-profit that is helping to revitalize and sustain Quecha women weavers. They provide access to fair-market prices for the weavers' work which in turn supplies the women with an economic base.

Art Lust: Laura Hart Newlon

noreply@blogger.com (Anonymous) — Fri, 04 May 2012 23:09:00 +0000

This series is the perfect unfolding storyline. Treat yourself to the full dose of Laura Hart Newlon's Winter in Limberlost.

Laura Hart Newlon