I’m Holly, an artist, curator, and interior designer based in San Francisco. Reach out! Things in a Room is both a small exhibition of pieces I’ve made, collected, and loved, and the space where I’ll be making art throughout July.
My favorite spaces to study are artists' lofts: Philippe Weisbecker's studio, Georgia O'Keeffe's house, Frida’s blue house. Places where you can feel the presence of the same eye, applied to everything. In this way, the spaces we spend time in are our self-portraits. The objects we keep are beautiful because we use them. By extension: being an artist in a studio and curating a well-loved home are the same act of tending to a space to reveal yourself.
I’m looking for more artist’s studios to visit! If you are an artist and are willing to let me visit your studio, please let me know.
Recently, I've been reading Hans Ulrich Obrist's A Brief History of Curating, and hoping to give myself the minor in art history I never got around to. I'm interested in how aesthetics I’m drawn to — folk art, Fluxus, Arts and Crafts movement — could constitute a type of sociological resistance. What does it mean to demand the human hand in an era of heightened mechanical reproduction, or to insist on beholding and restoring old objects?
I love making beloved things out of everyday materials. Come to Things in a Room to see a dress out of a plastic sack, art out of an old schoolboy’s homework, a frame out of a pencil case, and more. RSVP.
