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| Gwendolyn Holbrow | |
Sculptor and installation artist, born in New York City, has resided on East Coast, West Coast and in Midwest USA, and in Germany. |
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| About the Artist | |
Gwendolyn Holbrow uses media from bronze and marble to Mylar, Barbie dolls and electronics to explore the connections between substance and spirit, matter and meaning. Her award-winning work, often humorous and always thought-provoking, appears in museums, galleries and other venues throughout New England and beyond. |
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Speech Balloon I
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| Speech balloons and punctuation marks are traditional two-dimensional representations of thought and sound, breath and time. By carving and modeling in plaster, concrete, bronze, I explore how the material itself holds or contributes meaning, how it speaks or signifies, and how its form creates its content. |
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Speech Balloon With Bubble
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Double Speech Balloon
2005 |
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Ingrown Speech Balloon
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Speech Balloon With Tongue
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Speech Balloon For Something I
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Speech Balloon With Ears
2006 |
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My World
2005 |
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| This piece is a love song to lost wax and molten bronze, and a lament for paradise lost. |
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| Education and biography | |
| Selected Exhibitions Reflection, An Installation, solo show, Danforth Museum of Art, Framingham, MA 2007 three, three person show, Mazmanian Gallery, Framingham State College, Framingham, MA, 2006 Contemporary Art at Chesterwood, Chesterwood Estate, Stockbridge, MA, 2006 Summer Outdoor Sculpture, Mill Brook Gallery, Concord, NH, 2006 Make Way For Calflings, Cow Parade, Boston, MA, 2006 Micro Monumental, Flashpoint Gallery, Washington, DC, and Xavier University Art Gallery, Cincinnati, OH, 2006 Plastic Princess: Barbie as Art, Monserrat Gallery, Beverly, MA, 2005-6 and Housatonic Museum of Art, Bridgeport, CT, 2006 MicroMonumentals, Lynn Arts, Lynn, MA, 2005 Free Wheelin’: The Art of Rolling, Revolving Museum, Lowell, MA, 2004-5 Faculty Art Exhibit, Danforth Museum of Art, Framingham, MA, 2004-5 Cambridge Art Association National Prize Show, juried, Cambridge, MA, 2004 The Human Condition; co-chaired this juried show, Cambridge Art Association, Cambridge, MA, 2004 Frances M. Roddy Open Competition, juried show, Concord Art Association, Concord, MA, 2003 Spectral Works, Cambridge Art Association’s University Place Gallery, three-person show, Cambridge, MA, 2002 Websight installation at Fiber Arts Invitational, Mazmanian Gallery, Framingham, MA, 2002 Stepping Into An Uncertain World, Boott Gallery, Boott Mills Cotton Museum, Lowell, MA, 2002 Artomat, Whitney Museum of American Art and the New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York, NY, 2002 Education Stone carving with Peter Evonuk, Massachusetts College of Art, Boston, 2006 Bronze foundry with David Phillips and Charles Jones, Massachusetts College of Art, Boston, 2003, 2004, 2005 Children’s Book Illustration with Ilse Plume at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, 2003 Auto-body repair with Jeff Pelletier at Assabet Valley Technical School, Marlborough, 2003 Welding and forging with Reid Drum at the Massachusetts College of Art, Boston, 2002 Bachelor of Arts in Studio Art and Art History, Framingham State College, Framingham, MA, 2001; studied with John Anderson, Marc Cote and Jim Eng Painting, life drawing and ceramics with Michael Dowling, Michelle Lougee, and Martha Oldham at the Danforth Museum School, Framingham, MA, 1999, 2002 Commercial Art, Madison Area Technical College, Madison, Wisconsin, 1986-87 Medicine, Medical College of Wisconsin, 1982-83 BA in Linguistics, graduate study in embryology, University of Wisconsin at Madison, 1980-2 For more information, please visit http://gwendolynholbrow.com |
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| Future shows | |
| Reflection, a reflective installation, at the Danforth Museum of Art, January-February 2007. | |
| Website: gwendolynholbrow.com | |
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