Project Type: Bonner David Galleries

Stories of the Matriarchs

Stories of the Matriarchs

Stories of the Matriarchs
Unique Cast Bronze, Patina, Reclaimed Rocking Chair Leg
10.75” x 31.75” x 3”, 2023

The figures are five generations of women: granddaughter, daughter, mother, grandmother, great-grandmother. The base they walk on is from a rocking chair that my mother gave to me. Looking at the leg of the rocker I remember holding and singing my children to sleep, watching them drift off and dream. In the rocker I would tell them stories and I was honored to hold in my arms the next generation, that next life and dream with them the many yet untold stories they would create and tell their children.

The Cigar Figures come from a childhood Native American story that my mother told of the “Stick People.” The “Stick People” would run through the night and call your name; if you went with them, you were never heard from again. She never described the figures, and I was always drawn to the idea of what they looked like. The Cigar Figures are my reimagining of that story, now a story of family and my past—a complicated narrative of loss, survival, and resilience. The figures are made from real cigars and found sticks, all cast in bronze. The faces are of the ancestors and family shaped from the idea of a cameo or silhouette painting to capture the faces of the families.

When hung, the light casts a shadow of the figures on the wall. This shadow represents memory for me. Like a shadow, these memories cannot be held, and in the end, we are all only a shadow in history, shadows on this earth.

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For inquiries, please contact:

Bonner David Galleries

7040 E. Main Street | Scottsdale, Arizona 85251 | 480.941.8500 | www.BonnerDavid.com

Newa Four-Holly Wilson

Newa: Four

Newa: Four
Unique Cast Bronze, Patina, Reclaimed Boxcar Wood
9.5” x 12.25” x 2.25”, 2023

Newa is the Delaware Lenape word for the number four. This family of newa walks on a base that is cut from the floor of a train boxcar. There is history held in this floor of marks, lines made, and the secrets held inside; like that of family’s and the history held inside each of us marking our life on this earth.

The Cigar Figures come from a childhood Native American story that my mother told of the “Stick People.” The “Stick People” would run through the night and call your name; if you went with them, you were never heard from again. She never described the figures, and I was always drawn to the idea of what they looked like. The Cigar Figures are my reimagining of that story, now a story of family and my past—a complicated narrative of loss, survival, and resilience. The figures are made from real cigars and found sticks, all cast in bronze. The faces are of the ancestors and family shaped from the idea of a cameo or silhouette painting to capture the faces of the families.

When hung, the light casts a shadow of the figures on the wall. This shadow represents memory for me. Like a shadow, these memories cannot be held, and in the end, we are all only a shadow in history, shadows on this earth.

Available

For inquiries, please contact:

Bonner David Galleries

7040 E. Main Street | Scottsdale, Arizona 85251 | 480.941.8500 | www.BonnerDavid.com

Her Story-sv-Holly Wilson

Her Story

“Her Story”
Unique Cast Bronze, Patina, Birch Panel, 12” Round

In each of us, there is a story that only we can tell. It is full of beauty, sadness, laughter, love, tears, and joy. Take the time to breathe in the journey we each are on.

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For inquiries, please contact:

Bonner David Galleries

7040 E. Main Street | Scottsdale, Arizona 85251 | 480.941.8500 | www.BonnerDavid.com

Her Story-HollyWilson
Her Story-HollyWilson

Lost Within My History

Lost Within My History

Unique Cast Bronze, Patina, Glass, Brass, 14” x 6” x 6”, 2022

As a young girl, my dad had these amazing, beaded works of art that he made, and from time to time, I would start but then stop or walk away from learning, leaving pieces in mid-process. I was young, then later my life was busy, and one reason after another kept me from history and time. My dad has passed away, and that time I could have spent with him learning and hearing his stories of how and why the thread it pulled through the beeswax and the cut of the bead and the way to hold the needle is lost. I lost not just the history but him and that time with him. I am now looking to teach myself these ways, and I hold him in my mind and my heart as I go forward.

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Exhibition History

  • On Turtle’s Back, Pauly Friedman Art Gallery, Misericordia University, Dallas, Pennsylvania (September 8 – October 11, 2022)
All for Their Love-Holly Wilson

All for Their Love

“All for Their Love”
Unique Cast Bronze with Patina, Cedar
6″ x 6″ x 3”

Love is not made to fit into a box; it is alive, ever-moving, and changing. I love you; I love them, I love her, I love him, it is all for their love.

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Currently on view in Scottsdale

7040 E. Main Street | Scottsdale, Arizona 85251 | 480.941.8500 | www.BonnerDavid.com

Frayed-Holly Wilson

Frayed

Frayed

2017, 42” x 21” x 6”, Unique Cast Bronze with Patina

Frayed that point when all is coming apart in your world. You find a point at which you can balance things above, below, and within.

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For inquiries, please contact:
Bonner David Art Boutique
22 E. 81 ST | New York City, New York 10028 | 929.226.7800

Bonner David Galleries
7040 E. Main Street | Scottsdale, Arizona 85251 | 480.941.8500

Frayed-Holly Wilson-Lower view

Frayed-Holly Wilson- Side View