2015-16, 30” x 41”x 7”, Unique Cast Bronze with Patina
Can you hear me; can you see me? I will no longer stand to the side. I shout out to the winds and the world letting my voice be heard. As the girl shouts out the birds scatter in surprise but the crow remains beside her, the crow a shapeshifter, and the messenger foretold that her voice would be heard. I find that there are more times than not that as a female and a Native American to be heard one has to use a strong voice from deep inside. The reaction that follows is both of surprise and intrigue.
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The figures are four generations of women: daughter, mother, grandmother, great-grandmother. The base is from a rocking chair that my mother gave to me. In the rocking chair’s arm was the form of a mother and her pregnant belly holding that next generation; that next life and untold story.
The Cigar Figures come from a Native American story of my childhood that my mother told of the “Stick People”. The “Stick People” would run through the night and call your name, she never described the figures and I was drawn to the idea of what they looked like for most of my life. The Cigar Figures are my reimagining of that story, now a story of family and my past. The figures are made of real cigars and found sticks. I create molds of the cigars and then cast them and the sticks in bronze.
Exhibition History
Conversations: Eiteljorg Native Art Fellowship, Eiteljorg Museum, Indianapolis IN (November 14, 2015-February 14, 2016)
The Four Matriarchs
Left: “Ancestral Realms II” by Mario Martinez. Right: “The Four Matriarchs” by Holly Wilson. At the Exhibition Conversations: Eiteljorg Museum 2015 Contemporary Art Fellowship.
2015, 24” x 28” x 13”, Unique Cast Bronze with Patina, Flex Cord
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Secrets of family, secrets of the self, whether good or bad is a burden that one keeps and hold within. The cast origami cranes are folded paper that hold words to history, words to the past to the secrets we carry. The cranes black in color for the darkness in which the unspoken words are held.
Exhibition History
Conversations: Eiteljorg Native Art Fellowship, Eiteljorg Museum, Indianapolis IN (November 14, 2015-February 14, 2016)
2015, 10.5” x 14.5” x 12.5”, Unique Cast Bronze with Patina
How much is enough? If one is good today then 100 is better, we are overwhelmed by what we have yet we want for more. This girl stands atop boxes of sugary cupcakes that are nothing more than empty, hollow treats.
In the Collection of: Eiteljorg Museum of American Indians and Western Art, Indianapolis, Indiana
Exhibition History
Four by Four 2016: Midwest Invitational Exhibition, Springfield Art Museum, Springfield, Missouri (September 10 – December 4, 2016)
Conversations: Eiteljorg Native Art Fellowship, Eiteljorg Museum, Indianapolis IN (November 14, 2015-February 14, 2016)
Back Left: “Inside-Outside” by Mario Martinez” .Middle: “Secrets are Burdens”, Front: “Enough” by Holly Wilson. Right Front: “It’s Probably Magic”, Right Middle 1 & 2 “Ancestral Realms II”, “Unveiled Universe” by Mario Martinez. Back Right: “Interrupted Forms #2” by Brenda Mallory. At the Exhibition Conversations: Eiteljorg Museum 2015 Contemporary Art Fellowship.
Mothers often act as a balancing force in our world. This figure acts as an archetype of all mothers. She sits balanced upon a piece of poplar wood. Her position seems precarious but is secure and necessary, creation of equilibrium.
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Exhibition History
On Turtle’s Back, Museum of Contemporary Native Art, Santa Fe NM (May 25 2018-January 27, 2019)
Holly Wilson: Talk Story, C.N. Gorman Museum, University of California-Davis (January 9-March 16, 2018)
SFA Alumni Exhibition, The Cole Art Center, Nacogdoches, Texas (October 27, 2016 –January 14, 2017)
Conversations: Eiteljorg Native Art Fellowship, Eiteljorg Museum, Indianapolis IN (November 14, 2015-February 14, 2016)
2014, 9.5″ x 10″ x 6″, Unique Cast Bronze with Patina, and Geode Rock
“Belonging” we are always looking for that feeling of belonging that sense of a key in a lock. The geode I broke open revealing two sides. Here I have a boy and a girl, I see them as masculine and feminine in us all. The figures here are fitted to that geode when they are still in wax; they are not glued they are keyed to the rock that they belong, two sides of the self two halves of a whole.