Tom Holland (artist)

Tom Holland (born June 15, 1936 in Seattle, Washington, United States) is an American visual artist. Holland is known for creating a style of art that may use fiberglass (or fibreglass), aluminum (or aluminium), epoxy paint, plywood, beads, oil paint, palette knives, marble, copper, paper, and clay. For clay he uses watercolor, acrylic urethane, and ceramic glazes.[1]

Tom Holland
BornJune 15, 1936 (age 84)
Seattle, Washington, United States
NationalityAmerican
Known forAbstract mixed media, geometric wall relief

Background and education

Holland began his formal art education at the University of California at Berkeley, where he was influenced by David Park [2] before traveling to Chile as a Fulbright Grant recipient. Holland's early academic art influence was David Park at Berkeley, but his artistic style continued to develop through his travels and personal experiences.[3]

Career

Contemporary practice

His beginning as a painter was labeled "funky".[4] It wasn't until Holland began to work with aluminum that he achieved critical acclaim. His work has been described as taking inspiration from Cubism, Futurism, and Constructivism,[5][6][7] and he has been called one of California's most important contemporary artists and was featured in Art in the San Francisco Bay Area, 1945–1980: An Illustrated History.[8]

Holland works primarily with fiberglass and aluminum to create free-standing and wall installations, a style that has been said to encompass Abstract Expressionism (8). He creates his art by riveting metal to the fiberglass or aluminum, then using epoxy paint to add other elements to the piece which add depth, light, and color.[2] His work has been labeled exhilarating[3] and visually challenging, playing games and distorting the three-dimensional space.[9] Holland is represented by Bivins Gallery in Dallas, Texas.

Solo exhibitions
  • 1966 : Nicholas Wilder Gallery, Los Angeles
  • 1970 : Neuendorf Gallery, Hamburg
  • 1972 : Felicity Samuel Gallery, London
  • 1972 : San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco
  • 1980 : James Corcoran Gallery – Santa Monica
  • 1982 : Corcoran Gallery
  • 1983 : Bank of America Galleries, Santa Monica
  • 1989 : Persons and Lindell Gallery, Helsinki
  • 1994 : San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose
  • 1995 : Triton Museum, Silicon Valley
  • 2002 : John Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco
  • 2017 : Bivins Gallery

Collections
gollark: Hmm, so, designoidal idea:- files have the following metadata: filename, last modified time, maybe permissions (I may not actually need this), size, checksum, flags (in case I need this later; probably just compression format?)- each version of a file in an archive has this metadata in front of it- when all the files in some set of data are archived, a header gets written to the end with all the file metadata plus positions- when backup is rerun, the system™️ just checks the last modified time of everything and sees if its local copies are newer, and if so appends them to the end; when it is done a new header is added containing all the files- when a backup needs to be extracted, it just reads the end, finds the latest versions and decompresses stuff at the right offsetThere are some important considerations here: it should be able to deal with damaged/partial files, encryption would be nice to have (it would probably work to just run it through authenticated AES-whatever when writing), adding new files shouldn't require tons of seeking, and it might be necessary to store backups on FAT32 disks so maybe it needs to be able of using multiple files somehow.
gollark: I have been pondering an osmarksarchiveformat™ because I dislike the existing ones somewhat. Specifically for backups and append-only-ish access. Thusly, thoughts on the design (crossposted from old esolangs)?
gollark: If you run too much current through beans they may vaporise/burn/etc.
gollark: You could make a mechanical computer from solidified beans.
gollark: Can beans be used for digital logic?

References
  1. "Tom Holland Art Exhibition At North Texas Gallery". cbslocal.com. Retrieved 23 August 2015.
  2. . "Tom Holland", http://www.samuellynne.com/artist/tom-holland/
  3. Ashbery, John (Mar 16, 1981). "Pleasures of Paperwork". Newsweek.
  4. Danieli, Nicholas (1969). "Wilder Gallery". The Los Angeles Times.
  5. . "ART IN REVIEW; Tom Holland", https://www.nytimes.com/2000/02/25/arts/art-in-review-tom-holland.html
  6. Muchnic, Suzanne (1982). "Corcoran Gallery show". The Los Angeles Times.
  7. Smith, Roberta (2000). "Art in Review". New York Times.
  8. Albright, Thomas (1981). "San Francisco: Different and Indifferent Drummies", 86-87. Published by ArtNews for the San Francisco Chronicle
  9. "James Corcoran Gallery". The Los Angeles Times. Aug 2, 1982.
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