Robin Holder
There are times when an experience is far more than an event and so powerful that it inspires the most visceral reactions. The figures in these two works express my voice when I cannot speak or cry or sing . My way of expressing overwhelmingly powerful feelings and thoughts is to make images that encapsulate my power. I am in control of my images. I am protected. I cannot be ignored.
Nina’s Choice represents internal dialogue, private conversations that I allow. They Damaged Us More Than Katrina speaks to my external articulation, one that I can deliver unedited, loudly, in public.
robin holder is a bi racial interethnic artist whose work centers on the manifestations of conflicted cultural, class, gender, religious and racial identity. She is a 2020 Clark Hulings Fund Executive Fellow. Her recent exhibition, Access and Inequities: I Hear You. Do You See Me, featured images in drawing, printmaking, digital manipulation, archival inkjet printing and painting which presents inequality and injustice in a comprehensive and universal perspective. Holder is a recipient of grants and awards from the New York State Council on The Arts, The Brooklyn Arts Council, Manhattan Graphics Center and The Mid Atlantic Arts Foundation.
Holder’s work is included in significant collections including The Library of Congress, Con Edison, Xerox Corporation, Atlanta Life Insurance Co., United Parcel Service, The Washington State Arts Commission, and The Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture. Ms. holder has completed several site specific public art commissions and has presented four one-woman museum exhibitions.
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