Project Type: Portfolio

WATCHER-Holly Wilson

Watcher

WATCHER

2014, 10″ x 11″ x 4″, Unique Cast Bronze with Patina, and Encaustic on Birch

As a Delaware/Cherokee Native American, I grew up hearing family stories of shapeshifters with the idea of a trickster who hides their identity, birds as messengers, and owls as bearers of tragic news. In “Watcher” you see where the bird is shifting and he is stuck between the two worlds trying to choose, the world of man or the world of the spirit. He has the hands and eyes of mankind but they are still in bird form.

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

Risk

RISK

2011, 55”x 16”x 13”, Unique Cast Bronze with Patina, and Found Stick

Risk is that moment you stand up to face that choice of the future and let go. This figure is about to stand and run down the stick.

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JRB Art at the Elms, Oklahoma City, OK

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