Madison, WI ARTIST STATEMENTMy recent work includes “structured paintings” with multiple components that investigate the idea of continuation and connection, using the art media that works best for my exploration. I am inspired by poetry, often finding sparks of recognition as to how I experience life and the making of my art.“Sky,” written by Wislawa Szymborska, has been one of those sparks. SKY (excerpt) I should have begun with this: the sky.A window minus sill, frame, and panes.An aperture, nothing more,but wide open. I don’t have to wait for a starry night,I don’t have to crane my neckto get a look at it.I’ve got the sky behind my back, at hand, and on my eyelids.The sky binds me tightand sweeps me off my feet. Grainy, gritty, liquid,inflamed, or volatilepatches of sky, specks of sky,gusts and heaps of skyThe sky is everywhere,even in the dark beneath your skin. From the smallest speck of air to the vastness of the universe, my art suggests an axis for thoughts in which one can be wholly present. A place of reaching out and of reaching in to the mysterious riddle where one can find the silent and ever-changing space of time. BIOGRAPHYHolly has an MFA in Metalsmithing and has taught evening classes in small metals at Madison College while being employed as a Senior Research Specialist in the Department of Ophthalmology during the day. She has had a solo exhibition at the James Watrous Gallery located in theOverture Center for the Arts, and two person exhibitions; at LawrenceUniversity and Edgewood College Gallery, The Stream. Her work has been exhibited in group exhibitions regional and nationally, including the Madison Art Center, the Chazen Museum of Art, and the Museum of Wisconsin Art in West Bend.