Strange Bedfellows
A Solo Exhibition of Works by Stacey Holloway
Raft
Hung Out to Dry
Seven Impossible Things Before Breakfast
Let’s Be Independent Together
Id, Ego, and Superego
Cloaked
Not to be Otherwise
Fruits of Labor
Discovery
Dependence
Iron Ties
Fabricated Interactions During Social Distancing: Back Scratcher
Fabricated Interactions During Social Distancing: Feeding
Fabricated Interactions During Social Distancing: Holding Hands
FABRICATED INTERACTIONS DURING SOCIAL DISTANCING
When the COVID-19 pandemic hit recently, we began to hear the term “social distancing” more and more, so I became interested in the idea of isolation and the desire we all have to interact with each other. I first thought of some multi-person wearable prosthetics that I had created in the past and wondered how I could do something similar, but instead project the idea of a single person that longed for human interaction so bad that they would make these contraptions or prosthetic devices from materials and objects on-hand to mimic physical connection.
ARTIST STATEMENT
I am a visual storyteller. The form of the narrative has been used for centuries to entertain, to preserve culture and to instill morals. Stories can be used to bridge cultures, languages and age barriers. Similar to Aesop, my interests lie in the animal realm and by using specific animal attributes to explore how our formative process make up who we might become, or who we are attempting to become. Animal forms, architectural drafting and installations become the place for metaphors and narratives of uncertainty and longing.
I’m often drawn to items that have a story to tell. My mixed media installations are created from a series of parts, collections and recycled objects that are appropriated and combined with traditional carving, woodworking, casting, and fabricated structures. Similar to Surrealist artists, my hyper-exaggerated constructions investigate the subconscious and the balance of instinct and ethics.
Stacey Holloway
Stacey Holloway received her MFA from the University of Minnesota in 2009, her BFA from Herron School of Art and Design/IUPUI in 2006, and has been living and working in Birmingham, Alabama since 2013. She currently serves as the Associate Professor of Sculpture at the University of Alabama at Birmingham. In addition to teaching, Holloway is an active national mixed media artist, sculptor, and fabricator that works within a variety of media including drawing, printmaking, sculpture, ceramics, and interactivity. Through the exploration of storytelling and ethology, she creates work that communicate a universal societal connectivity.
Holloway has exhibited throughout the Midwest, South and East Coast in galleries such as Wayfarers, Brooklyn, NY; FM Gallery, Chicago, IL; Gallery 924 at the Arts Council of Indianapolis, IN; and Huntsville Museum of Art, AL. Holloway has received distinguished awards such as the 2017 SECAC Artist’s Fellowship and the 2010 Efroymson Contemporary Arts Fellowship through the Central Indiana Community Foundation in Indianapolis.