Project Type: Sculpture

Holly Wilson SECRETS ARE BURDENS

Secrets Are Burdens

SECRETS ARE BURDENS

2015, 24” x 28” x 13”, Unique Cast Bronze with Patina, Flex Cord

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MA Doran Gallery
3509 S. Peoria Avenue | Tulsa, OK 74105 | 918.748.8700

Secrets of family, secrets of the self, whether good or bad is a burden that one keeps and hold within. The cast origami cranes are folded paper that hold words to history, words to the past to the secrets we carry. The cranes black in color for the darkness in which the unspoken words are held.

Exhibition History

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

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Holly Wilson SECRETS ARE BURDENS

Holly Wilson-Enough

Enough

ENOUGH

2015, 10.5” x 14.5” x 12.5”, Unique Cast Bronze with Patina

How much is enough? If one is good today then 100 is better, we are overwhelmed by what we have yet we want for more. This girl stands atop boxes of sugary cupcakes that are nothing more than empty, hollow treats.

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

Exhibition History

  • Four by Four 2016: Midwest Invitational Exhibition, Springfield Art Museum, Springfield, Missouri (September 10 – December 4, 2016)
  • Conversations: Eiteljorg Native Art Fellowship, Eiteljorg Museum, Indianapolis IN (November 14, 2015-February 14, 2016)

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Back Left: "Inside-Outside" by Mario Martinez" .Middle: "Secrets are Burdens", Front: "Enough" by Holly Wilson. Right Front: "It's Probably Magic", Right Middle 1 & 2 "Ancestral Realms II", "Unveiled Universe" by Mario Martinez. Back Right: "Interrupted Forms #2" by Brenda Mallory. At the Exhibition Conversations: Eiteljorg Museum 2015 Contemporary Art Fellowship.
Back Left: “Inside-Outside” by Mario Martinez” .Middle: “Secrets are Burdens”, Front: “Enough” by Holly Wilson. Right Front: “It’s Probably Magic”, Right Middle 1 & 2 “Ancestral Realms II”, “Unveiled Universe” by Mario Martinez. Back Right: “Interrupted Forms #2” by Brenda Mallory. At the Exhibition Conversations: Eiteljorg Museum 2015 Contemporary Art Fellowship.

Mother

MOTHER
2011, 63”x 31”x 24”, Unique Cast Bronze with Patina, Poplar, Steel

Mothers often act as a balancing force in our world. This figure acts as an archetype of all mothers. She sits balanced upon a piece of poplar wood. Her position seems precarious but is secure and necessary, creation of equilibrium. 

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MA Doran Gallery
3509 S. Peoria Avenue | Tulsa, OK 74105 | 918.748.8700

Exhibition History

  • On Turtle’s Back, Museum of Contemporary Native Art, Santa Fe NM (May 25 2018-January 27, 2019)
  • Holly Wilson: Talk Story, C.N. Gorman Museum, University of California-Davis (January 9-March 16, 2018)
  • SFA Alumni Exhibition, The Cole Art Center, Nacogdoches, Texas (October 27, 2016 –January 14, 2017)
  • Conversations: Eiteljorg Native Art Fellowship, Eiteljorg Museum, Indianapolis IN (November 14, 2015-February 14, 2016)

 

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Belonging

BELONGING

2014, 9.5″ x 10″ x 6″, Unique Cast Bronze with Patina, and Geode Rock

“Belonging” we are always looking for that feeling of belonging that sense of a key in a lock. The geode I broke open revealing two sides. Here I have a boy and a girl, I see them as masculine and feminine in us all. The figures here are fitted to that geode when they are still in wax; they are not glued they are keyed to the rock that they belong, two sides of the self two halves of a whole.

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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)

Release

RELEASE

2917, 19″ x 5″ x 9″, Unique Cast Bronze with Patina

There are moments in our lives that we have to let go of what we know and free fall to the next place I feel this requires a kind of faith that you will find your way in the release.

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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