Artist Report – Evan Holloway

Alicia Silverman

Artist: Evan Holloway

 hendeca stack

 cool branch

dark and light

 double david

The Arrangement of ten

Pictures: 

1. Arrangement Of Ten – 2013 – Bronze and Dark Patina
2. Double David – 2012 – Bronze
3. Dark and Light – 2012 – Bronze and Patina
4. Cool Branch – 2012 – Bronze and Paint
5. Hendeca Stack – 2012 – Powder coated aluminum, electronics, wiring and light bulbs

 

Please share a statement from an art historian, critic or journalist about your artist:

Sally O’Reilly describes Holloway’s work: “Evan Holloway’s work requires the viewer to crouch, peer or circumnavigate each piece.  The reward is a glimpse of a spatial, optical or notional somersault.  His objects are like compounds with a long-forgotten use, outlandish yet made up of tantalizingly familiar components, all twisted or going off at angles in a most obstreperous manner.  Holloway sprinkles Modernist reference throughout his work like cheap cologne and these welded formal structures act as branches or shelves on which to hang his set of perceptions.  Yet it is difficult to pare the residue of Modernism away from the scatter of contemporary culture references.  It is not easy to see which came first, as he managed to the intertwine the two in a seamless, symbiotic coupling.”  

 

Please share an idiosyncrasy about your artist here:

Evan Holloway is a sculptural Artist.  He enjoys creating simple and fundamental transactions between people and objects.  Evan wants his work to be understood by a contemporary society and its values.  He likes to play on allusions and materials while experimenting with his ideas.

 

Please choose one of the 5 pieces above and write a subject v. content statement about the work here:

The Arrangement of Ten caught my eye the most.  The piece of art looks like cans stacked on top of each other in a pyramid way.  However, they are not cans, he used brick like shapes.  Starting with the bottom, there is a play form that then has four brick like shapes, standing straight up next to each other.  On the top of the four, he than put three brick like shapes, than two on top of the three and one solo brick on top.  On the front of each brick like shape, a chicken shape appears to be on each one.  The bricks are a dark blackish/gray and remains the same color throughout the whole piece.  

The first piece of content this could symbolize is the food pyramid in life.  All the faces of the bricks have chickens on it.  So it could mean the food pyramid for chickens only eat other chickens.  It could be a mean way of life for them.  The farmers of these chickens could be making turning them into cannibalism.

The second piece of content this could symbolize is the bottom being the strongest and getting more weak as you get up to the top.  It could be an opposite way of our social life.  Usually the people on top in our society have lots of money and are the strongest versus the people on the bottom who are the weakest and poorest.  But in reality if you get to know the people on the bottom of the pyramid and what they have been though in life, you will see they are the strongest and most hard working people.  An example are some I work with.  This one lady is from Camden and has a hard life but she comes to work and works hard everyday.  She has to be strong to get through the stuff she has been put through in this city which is one of the worst in America.