posted March 11, 2010
) Silent and Blind Painter |
This exhibition will feature new realist portrait paintings and figurative collage works by Mr. Holsomback. The works are a part of a larger new series in which Mr. Holsomback, with the help of a grant from the CreateHere organization, is exploring the subjective modern myth and the search for personal identity within the 21st century.
The exhibit will be on view through the entire month of April during regular gallery hours. An opening night reception for the artist will be held on Friday, April 2, from 5-8 p.m. The event is free and open to the public.
The Asher Love Gallery is located in the newly revitalized business district of downtown St. Elmo directly behind Pasha's Coffee House and Blacksmith's Bistro at the foot of Lookout Mountain. Gallery hours are Thursday through Saturday 11 a.m.-6 p.m. and Sundays 12-4 p.m.
More information is available on the gallery's website at http://asherlovegallery.blogspot.com, via email at asherlovegallery@gmail.com, or by calling 822-0289.
Mr. Holsomback is a well-known artist and art department faculty member at Chattanooga State Community College. While being the primary painting instructor at Chattanooga State, Mr. Holsomback is also a productive painter himself, having a regional and national exhibition record. His work has been selected for exhibitions in such venues as: the San Diego Art Institute, the University of Mobile, the Stage Gallery in Merrick, N.Y., the Huntsville Museum of Art in Huntsville and Nassau College in Nassau, N.Y.
Mr. Holsomback’s paintings and collages are found in the holdings of numerous private, corporate and government collections, including most notably, the corporate law offices of King and Spalding of Atlanta and the Park Avenue offices of Dr. Jacqueline Dryfoos of New York, N.Y.
He continues to live in north Georgia with his wife and a houseful of rescued cats and dogs, teaching, painting and observing the changing world around him.
Born in rural north Georgia in 1961, Mr. Holsomback is the self described son of a son of a white sharecropper, as his father’s parents lived in a string of depression era sharecropper shacks. The fields may have been segregated but the poverty was colorblind. It is through his own veil of poverty, and the illnesses which arise within it, that Mr. Holsomback has sharpened his vision as a painter. He has seen and participated in the long and often painful journey of southern cultural evolution.
Mr. Holsomback’s passion for art developed early, fostered by the sacrifice and support of his parents, he earned a MFA degree in painting in 1989, and began his teaching career shortly thereafter.
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