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 Lisa Holden’s photoworks succeed in seamlessly combining two media that are frequently considered at opposite poles: the digital and the hand-painted. In her compositions, which sample imagery from early studio photography, classical painting and consumer culture, Holden has developed a painstaking technique of combining footage from digital still and video cameras with scanned-in, hand-tinted layers, making it impossible to distinguish any overlap. In her single figure and group compositions, the artist frequently takes her own image as the starting point. Integrating the digital artefacts randomly generated by the repeated layering process into the final composition, her portrait becomes obscured, iterating the artist’s ongoing interest in alternate personas and constructed reality. The finishing of Holden’s large scale pieces, which drip with lush abstract acrylic paints and varnishes, balances the rival interests of digital and analogue media, new and traditional imagery, realism and fantasy. In recent works (Reclining, Judith, and Three Sleepers) Holden flirts with feminine iconography prevalent in the 1900s. While the resulting pieces--close-up portraits and figures inserted into indeterminate landscapes and ‘interiors’--radiate a sense of luxuriant lassitude and opulence, they are subverted by an underlying sense of fragmentation and isolation. Even the most sylvan of compositions are brooding fantasies, their seductive dreamscapes masking a non-explicit narrative, the nature of which remains unclear. Lisa Holden is a British artist based in Amsterdam. She has exhibited in London, the United States and throughout Europe. Contemporary / Vintage Works has featured her work at Photo LA, AIPAD's New York and Miami Photography Shows, Art Chicago and Paris Photo. She will also be showing at Art Rotterdam 2007 with Metis_NL  Solo and group shows in 2006 included ‘La Sala Reservada’, Metis_NL Gallery, Amsterdam (NL), ‘Erwartung’, France Lejeune Fine Art, Knokke-Zout (B), ‘Making Love To My Ego’, Castlefield Gallery, (UK), and ‘Labyrinth’, Rijksmuseum Enschede, (NL). Holden has also presented work at other international art fairs including FIAC and Artissima. Her work was featured in issues of Eyemazing, Camera Art, Focus magazine and NY Art magazine. The Focus magazine article compared her to the likes of Cindy Sherman and Tracey Moffatt, while maintaining that "Holden's imagery stands apart with her interest in themes of identity and gender combined with fantasy and art historical precedents, as well as for her unique process that merges photography with painting and sometimes installation and performance art." Her full color catalogue is also available. Holden's work is made on a large scale. Most of the images are available in 30 x 40 inch paper versions (her smallest size), larger sizes in Diasec mounts and/or as very large unique painted pieces mounted on aluminum with a UV laminate. Either review all of Lisa Holden's photographs on the site, or, better yet, call us for availability. |
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