As children, we make and wear masks to become anything we want or need to be. We can do anything in them, from being a superhero to a bird in flight. As adults, the layers and meaning of masks deepen and grow. They are a way to represent the different personas that we need or desire to be in life. Masks are an identity that one can live through or hide behind.

RED
Archival Color Photograph
mounted on 1/4″ plexi with museum mount
36″ x 24″

2, 4, and 5 available from the edition of 5

For inquiries, please contact:
The Studio
Mustang, OK 73064 | 405.308.0239

In the Collection of:

• Eiteljorg Museum of American Indians and Western Art, Indianapolis, Indiana
• C. N. Gorman Museum, Davis, California
• Spiva Center for the Arts, Joplin Missouri

Exhibition History

• The Thread that Connects, Spiva Center for the Arts, Joplin Missouri (January 14 – March 4)
• On Turtle’s Back, Pauly Friedman Art Gallery, Misericordia University, Dallas, Pennsylvania (September 8 – October 11, 2022)
• Upturned Flower That Travels, The Volland Store, Alma, Kansas (November 6 – December 5, 2021 )
• Holly Wilson: Talk Story, C.N. Gorman Museum, University of California-Davis
  (January 9-March 16, 2018)

 

In a strategic trickster twist, I feature children, often masked, as a tool to bring the viewer into my work. Masks are multi-layered. They are a mechanism to hide or obscure our true intentions, acting as a wall between us and the world. Masks are also agents of transformation, powerful and sometimes dangerous.

My work attempts to explore what lies beneath or in the shadows. I am intrigued with the power of these shadows in our lives and how they haunt us or make us doubt our reality, at times even terrorizing us. I consciously incorporate shadows in my work by controlling the lighting and relationships of the figures, giving form to the secrets that linger in our lives.

GHOST OF THE DEAD
Archival Color Photograph
mounted on 1/4″ plexi with museum mount
24″ x 36″

1, 2, 3, and 5 available from the edition of 5

For inquiries, please contact:
The Studio
Mustang, OK 73064 | 405.308.0239

In the Collection of:

• C. N. Gorman Museum, Davis, California

Exhibition History

• The Thread that Connects, Spiva Center for the Arts, Joplin Missouri (January 14 – March 4)
• On Turtle’s Back, Pauly Friedman Art Gallery, Misericordia University, Dallas, Pennsylvania (September 8 – October 11, 2022)
• Upturned Flower That Travels, The Volland Store, Alma, Kansas (November 6 – December 5, 2021 )
• Holly Wilson: Talk Story, C.N. Gorman Museum, University of California-Davis
  (January 9-March 16, 2018)

THE STRONG

My work attempts to explore what lies beneath or in the shadows. I am intrigued with the power of these shadows in our lives and how they haunt us or make us doubt our reality, at times even terrorizing us. I consciously incorporate shadows in my work by controlling the lighting and relationships of the figures, giving form to the secrets that linger in our lives.

Archival Color Photograph
mounted on 1/8″ plexi with museum mount
24″ x 36″

1, 3, 4 and 5 available from the edition of 5

For inquiries, please contact:
The Studio
Mustang, OK 73064 | 405.308.0239

In the Collection of:

• C. N. Gorman Museum, Davis, California

EXHIBITION HISTORY

• The Thread that Connects, Spiva Center for the Arts, Joplin Missouri (January 14 – March 4)
• On Turtle’s Back, Pauly Friedman Art Gallery, Misericordia University, Dallas, Pennsylvania (September 8 – October 11, 2022)
• Upturned Flower That Travels, The Volland Store, Alma, Kansas (November 6 – December 5, 2021 )
• Holly Wilson: Talk Story, C.N. Gorman Museum, University of California-Davis
  (January 9-March 16, 2018)

AWAKENING
Archival Color Photograph
mounted on 1/4″ plexi with museum mount
24″ x 36″

1, 3, 4, and 5 available from the edition of 5

For inquiries, please contact: The Studio

In the Collection of:

• C. N. Gorman Museum, Davis, California

Exhibition History

• Holly Wilson: Talk Story, C.N. Gorman Museum, University of California-Davis
  (January 9-March 16, 2018)

 

IN SONG
Archival Color Photograph
mounted on 1/4″ plexi with museum mount
24″ x 36″

2, 4, and 5 available from the edition of 5

For inquiries, please contact: The Studio

In the Collection of:

• C. N. Gorman Museum, Davis, California
• Private Collection

Exhibition History

• Holly Wilson: Talk Story, C.N. Gorman Museum, University of California-Davis
  (January 9-March 16, 2018)