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On a Limb

ON A LIMB

2011, 14″ x 9. 5″ x 19″, Unique Cast Bronze with Patina, and Sterling Silver

In “On a Limb” the girl balances on the branch watching, reaching for the bird that has landed on the tip of a small branch to watch her. The bird is a silver bird, which I refer to as a “Birdens”. While goals, objects, situations, and people may be a burden at times, they are important and precious to each of us, thus we care for them, and for this reason I cast the birds in the precious metal sterling silver.

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For inquiries, please contact:
MA Doran Gallery
3509 S. Peoria Avenue | Tulsa, OK 74105 | 918.748.8700

Exhibition History

  • Conversations: Eiteljorg Native Art Fellowship, Eiteljorg Museum, Indianapolis IN (November 14, 2015-February 14, 2016)

Masked

MASKED

2012, 22.5” x 3.5” x 4”, Unique Cast Bronze with Patina, and African Mahogany

Masks are layered with meaning from creatures in nature to a child’s imagined world. As children, we make and wear masks to be anything we want or need to be and we could do anything in them, from being a superhero to a bird in flight. As adults, the layers and meaning deepen and grow and these masks are a way to represent the different personas that we need or desire to be in life. They become an identity that one can live through or hide behind in our roles – I am a daughter, a sister, a friend, an aunt, a wife, a mother, artist, and Indian.

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In the Collection of Eiteljorg Museum of American Indians and Western Art, Indianapolis, Indiana

Exhibition History

  • Conversations: Eiteljorg Native Art Fellowship, Eiteljorg Museum, Indianapolis IN (November 14, 2015-February 14, 2016)

Shhh

SHHH

2011, 11.5″ X 9″ X 11″, Unique Cast Bronze with Patina, and Sterling Silver

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JRB Art at the Elms, Oklahoma City, OK

Boy’s View

BOY’S VIEW

Unique Cast Bronze with Patina, and Geode
4.5″ x 4″ x 4″

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Goldesberry Gallery, Houston, TX

Come See and Just A Little

COME SEE & JUST A LITTLE

Unique Cast Bronze with Patina, and Geode
6”x 5”x 5”

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Wally Workman Gallery
Austin, TX

“Come See” & “Just A Little” the girl and boy figure are fitted to the geode when they are still in wax; they are not glued or attached to the geode, they are keyed to the rock that they belongs. I see the figure like my people that we were placed and fitted in our beginning making each of us a key to the land we belong.

Holly Wilson-Voyage- Cigar Figures

Voyage: Cigar Figures

Voyage: Cigar Figures

2014, 17″ x 62.5″ x 4.25″, Unique Cast Bronze with Patina, Poplar, and Steel

The Cigar Figures come from a Native American story of my childhood that my mother told of the “Stick People”. These Stick People were figures that would run through the night and call your name, if you were to go with them you were never hear from again. The Cigar Figures are my re-interpretation of that story. The story of family and our past, when light falls on the figures the shadow cast on the wall represents for me memory. Like a shadow these memories cannot be held, in the end, we are only a shadow in history shadows on this earth.

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Wally Workman Gallery
Austin, TX

Holly Wilson-Voyage- Cigar Figures