Project Type: Portfolio

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.

Sold
Wally Workman Gallery
Austin, TX

Holly Wilson-Voyage- Cigar Figures

Watching

WATCHING

2011, 24.5” x 17” x 5”, Unique Cast Bronze with Patina, Poplar, and Sterling Silver

This figure is the mother part woman part nature looking out protecting the birds that she has nesting on her leg. The birds I cast in sterling silver are referred to as birds of “birdens”, they are burdens. While things, situations, and/or people may be a burden at times, they are important and precious, for this reason, the birds are cast in the precious metal sterling silver.

Sold Through the Studio

What Lies Beneath

WHAT LIES BENEATH

Unique Cast Bronze with Patina, Wood, Encaustic, and Plexi-glass
21”x 15.5”x 5”

SOLD

JRB Art at the Elms, Oklahoma City, OK

Under The Influance Of Gravity-Holly Wilson-v2

Under the Influence of Gravity

UNDER THE INFLUENCE OF GRAVITY

2015, 6″ x 7” x 7″, Unique Cast Bronze with Patina

When you are under an “influence” it is never your own fault but that of your surroundings, the other people that made the thing happen, or is it? Here the figure is pulled to the ground under the influence of gravity.

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

Under The Influance Of Gravity-Holly Wilson

Peto Peto Peto

PETO PETO PETO

Unique Cast Bronze with Patina, Encaustic on Birch
8.5”x 12” x 3”

Sold

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 “Peto Peto Peto” 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.