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Jim Holl

“…though there comes a time when transcription is no longer necessary–when it is enough simply to listen, which means, in this universe, to keep on looking.” 

--Carter Ratcliff

“The discovery of the new Higgs Boson particle on July 4, 2012 was made by shooting protons near the speed of light around the Large Hadron Collider and measuring what happened when they collided. The collisions produce electromagnetic particle showers that create light. These particle points cannot be seen but the traces of their trajectories can be measured. These traces are the subject of my paintings."

              -- Jim Holl

In his vibrantly complex artworks, Holl presents a new way to imagine the building blocks of the natural world. Although Jim Holl’s paintings and sculptures are abstract, the artist is concerned with depicting a vision of absolute reality and the foundation of all organic and inorganic forms. The universe, as we perceive it, cloaks the microscopic movements of quarks, electrons and subatomic particles. It is only in fractal vibrations through our visible world do these minute phenomena become manifest. By revealing these atomic particles, Jim Holl dissolves dimensions and presents these unseen fundamental elements whose elective affinities (or repulsions) compose the unseen but intuited story of life.

 

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Jim Holl
Jim Holl

“Holl is a master colorist– there are no false notes in these paintings. The works have a lyricism to them that one can easily imagine are traces of light flying across their surfaces: they have a feeling of truth.”

-- Claire Lamb

The artwork of Jim Holl has been widely exhibited and collected. He has mounted solo and group exhibitions with public institutions such as The New Museum, PS1 Museum, Creative Time, Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art, and Artists Space in New York. Additional selected exhibitions include ‘T’ Space, Rhinebeck, New York; Garvey/Simon Gallery, New York, Prographica/KPR Gallery, Seattle, WA; Architecture for Art Gallery, Hillsdale, New York; Cross Contemporary Art, Saugerties, NY,  Philadelphia Art Alliance, PA;  The Arts Center Gallery, Saratoga Springs, NY; Thompson Giroux Gallery, Chatham, NY; Lehman College Art Gallery, NY; BCB Gallery, Hudson, NY; Denise Bibro Gallery, NY; and the Woodstock Byrdcliffe Guild's Kleinart/James Center for the Arts, Woodstock, NY.

 

Jim Holl established James Holl Design in 1981. JHD has served corporate and non-profit clients designing and producing print and web projects. Selected clients include Adidas, AT&T, Chase Manhattan Bank, Credit Suisse, Doubleday, Emerson College, Houghton/Mifflin, Knoll International, March of Dimes, Marymount Manhattan College, Metropolitan Transit Authority, McGraw Hill, NYNEX, Newsweek, Random House, Scholastic Magazine, Sloan Kettering Memorial Cancer Center,  ‘T’ Space and The Asia Society.

 

Jim Holl holds a BA from the University of Washington, an MFA from Columbia University. He is an Associate Professor of Art at Marymount Manhattan College in New York City, where he directs the Graphic Design and Illustration and Animation Concentrations. Jim Holl’s art is driven by themes that are manifested in painting and sculpture. He maintains studios in Catskill, New York and Manchester, Washington. Charta Art Books published Jim Holl’s first book “The Landscape Painter, an autobiography 1974 through 1994” in 2009. Holl’s second book “All the Living Things” was published by ‘T’ Space Editions in 2017. More of Holl’s work can be viewed on his website www.jimholl.com. 

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