Video: 50-meter serpentine installation by artist and sculptor Barbara Holmes
2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55
Californian artist, sculptor, and part-time furniture manufacturer, Barbara Holmes has prepared an original fifty-meter installation in the form of a snake, consisting of thin wood planks. It is noteworthy that all the materials were found by Holmes at the city dump.
Barbara called her creation uncomplicated - "Untitled No. 5" (Untitled No. 5). Holmes picked up all the elements of an impressive snake-like structure in a landfill. It's amazing how in the hands of an artist, literally, out of nothing, out of garbage, a unique, interesting and complex art object can be born.
“As an artist,” says Barbara, “I am interested in working with old materials, I like to create new forms. It is very interesting to watch how completely banal and unnecessary elements add up to something intriguing and unusual. I see surprise on the faces of people who come to my exhibitions - and I like it."
Holmes received her Bachelor of Arts degree from the private Brigham Young University in 1993, and 9 years later, in 2002, Holmes graduated from San Diego State University with an MA in Fine Arts.
Her work can be seen in group exhibitions in art spaces such as the Headlands Center for the Arts, Museum of Craft and Folk Art, Oceanside Museum of Art and many others. …
Holmes has extensive teaching experience, having worked at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, Southwestern College, and even at her alma mater, San Diego State University. She currently teaches at the California College of the Arts, the largest art and design college in the western United States.
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