Holland Cunningham is an emerging Abstract Expressionist painter with studios in New York City and on the East End of Long Island. Her inspiration comes from a passion for plein air painting as well as classic paintings of the renaissance and other periods that serve as a springboard for her conceptual abstractions on paper and canvas.She uses various materials to create her soft palate works, such as oil, water-based media and photography. Cunningham studied art history and studio art at the University of Virginia, the Art Students League and the National Academy of Art and Design. She was a resident at the Bau Institute in Puglia, Italy, in the summer of 2012. In a review of her exhibition at the Quogue Gallery in the summer of 2015, Charles A. Riley II of Hamptons Art Hub wrote, “Cunningham manages to paint big on relatively modest planes of paper and canvas. Her palette is similar to Joan Mitchell, Helen Frankenthaler, Dan Christensen, and Cy Twombly –especially the white veil she modestly draws over many of her boldest touches of color. But the linear grammar is pure Hans Hoffmann and Robert Motherwell, whose black guidelines trace geometric and figural suggestions like a choreographer in the wings using a finger to start a pirouette onstage.”