holly boruck
The Ameristar Gallery is home to the Foundry Art Centre's Emerging Artist Series.
Artists fresh on the art scene can display their work to introduce their style to the local art community.
Patricia M, Oil on mylar, acrylic on paper, 24" x 19", 2017. $500 framed
holly boruck
Zeitgeist Portraits
I began this work through a residency at The Andalucía where the public was invited to participate. People were asked to respond physically to my question, posing for photos from which I am creating a series of portraits that reflect our times: Zeitgeist Portraits.
My Question: What is your outlook, response, frame of mind about the current state of the world?
Zeitgeist Portraits is a body of work that communicate a direct, emotional, physical, and wordless reaction to my question. We are most certainly living in “interesting times”. As a visual artist, my way of making sense of, and communicating most authentically about the world, is wordless but not silent. In this body of work my goal is to capture the richness of the human experience through the gesture of our bodies, reflecting intellect, emotions and spirit simultaneously.
Opening Reception Pictures
Permeation Series
Upcoming Exhibition: jennifer moss
Marked: Rusted Wovens
July 26 - september 13, 2019
“It is not a fault in the iron, but a virtue, to be so fond of getting rusted…” John Ruskin
I am interested in discovering inherent properties of the materials I work with and highlighting these qualities through unexpected combinations and interactions. A background in traditional craft media has instilled in me a certain desire for lasting “heirloom” quality pieces, yet interests in science and nature has taught me that nothing lasts, nothing is permanent. This is made especially clear through working in textiles, which by their nature are intricate, additive constructions that are time consuming to produce yet highly susceptible to decay.
Using of a variety of traditional woven structures and hand manipulated techniques I create textiles with different levels of interaction between steel wire and a fibers, which provides a blueprint for decomposition. As rust appears on the surface of the weavings and eventually falls away in a fine dust, the sense of nature’s power to overcome and degrade is made tangible. Through oxidization steel loses its traditional connotations of strength, durability, and functionality, becoming ephemeral and unpredictable. The underlying structure of the cloth remains in place, and combining this corrosion with natural fibers allows the rust to leave its mark: the stain becomes a permanent indication of a transitory process.