PRESS
I interviewed 4 project spaces in Berlin for Maake Magazine’s 17th issue. Read my introduction on the scene of project spaces in the neighborhoods of Neukölln and Kreuzberg as well as the 4 features here.
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Miranda Holmes (b. 1994) embraces expansive notions of identity and intimacy in her paintings, drawings, and installations. Her work speculates on how we shape one another and the places we inhabit. Using transparent films of paint, Holmes layers the shapes of everyday objects and experiences within figures, entangling them with the cups they hold, the drawers they open, and the shoulders they lean on.
Bright Bones features work created by the artist over the last two years, including during her time in Berlin, Germany under a DAAD Fellowship in the Arts. Each work attends to thresholds of interaction that mark a relationship in flux. Holmes paints the edges between subject matter as active and buzzing. Subjects and objects seep into one another, destabilizing the Self/Other binary for a fluid vision of experience. Gestures of care and conflict lodge within bodies like memory calcifying into bone. The show underlines painting as a site for textures of intimacy to spark, wrestle, grow, or diminish within a single moment.
Artist Talk: Monday, October 28, 2024, 4:30pm EDT in the Peeler Art Center, Auditorium
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I will show 2 paintings and an installation in the group show, Proem, curated by Ece Manav within the larger collective of FREYAalt. Opening July 25, 6-9pm.
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I am featured in Berlin Art Link on the topic of Desire. Click here for my interview with Fionn Adamian.
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My show at Vorfluter will participate in the 48 Hours Neukölln festival in Berlin
A sound piece by Juan Ledesma will play during the course of the weekend
I am one of 10 artists selected for the Miami University Young Painters show juried by Lauren Haynes, curator at the Queens Museum.
Jan 30-March 8, 2024
I am a recipient of the DAAD Postgraduate Scholarship in Fine Arts and will live in Berlin, Germany from Jan-Oct 2024.
I am a current artist in residence at Anderson Ranch in Snowmass, Colorado.
Feb 1-March 8, 2023
I am a current artist in residence at GlogauAIR in Berlin, Germany.
Oct 6-Dec 28, 2022
Our Open Studios event will take place Dec 16-17 at the residency, Glogauer Str. 16, 10999, Berlin.
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My painting, The Table Over the Course of the Afternoon and Into the Evening, was chosen to use for our Open Studios promotional material.
Thanks to Ruby Whittaker for interviewing me and taking my portrait.
Here’s a snippet from the interview:
How has your practice changed over time?
Art has helped me slow down. I used to look for the drama in a work of art, like a punchy narrative or a joke. I still love that kind of work, but after looking at art over the years, I have become more appreciative of works that ask me to take my time and focus on the way the artist uses colour or how they built up the surface of a painting. This practice helps me bear witness to what’s around me in my environment. Noticing the blue shadows on a person’s face or the shape of an insect’s bite marks on a leaf is fulfilling in its own right.
I’ve also come to see how art is an expansive practice that goes beyond the visual. I see the artistic practice as a way of aligning materials or actions with content to create meaning. This can be intentional or unintentional. Cooking a nice meal for a friend when they need it can be an artistic act. Building a life around the values and pleasures you collect along the way can be an artistic act. By focusing on the practice of art (making it and looking at it) rather than the product, the creative process becomes impermeable to value or judgment. Art becomes a way of seeing, changing, and living, rather than an object to own.
Find the full interview here.
My work will be in a group show with the members of Dream Clinic Project Space at Curiouser KC gallery in Kansas City, Kansas.
Familiar From Afar
Show dates: Oct 21-Nov
My work will be shown in a 2-person show at Roy G. Biv gallery in Columbus, OH. I will be showing 9 new paintings alongside artist and designer, Euzhan Shabazz.
Simmer After Boiling
Opening: July 8th, 6-8pm.
Show dates: July 8-Aug 5.
Third Leg. 2022. Oil and acrylic on canvas. 70x60 in.
I am curating a show for Dream Clinic Project Space!
Submissions are due July 10th and the show will open on Friday, August 19th.
Insta: @dreamclinicprojectspace
I Like Your Work Podcast catalogue and online group exhibition, Through Mossy Ways
May 1-31, 2022
My work, Rib Cage, is on the catalogue’s cover
Online Group Exhibition at Artsin Square
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MFA Thesis Exhibition, this, that, and the other thing
Feb 15-March 19, 2022
The Ohio State University
Urban Arts Space, Columbus, Ohio
Photos by Matt Pevear
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Solo show at Raum für Sichtbarkeit, Berlin, Nov-Dec 2021
The works in Inventur/Inventory show a range of paintings and drawings from when Holmes lived in Berlin during 2017 through 2019. From contentious show-downs, to confident explorers, to crumbling buildings, these works show a slice of the artist's trajectory in which she focused on narrative-building and identity politics in her practice. Over the course of two years, Holmes' work changed from centering female figures in stories of their own solitude to morphing the figure with their environment. Using elements of line, rhythm, and a saturated color palette, the later works in 2019 depict figures that become inseparable from their surroundings, exploring how the body shapes its context and how context shapes a body. The works in this show have lived in storage for over 2 years; they are an inventory that reflects the artist's emerging values in both art and life at the time. Throughlines exist between her work then and now: the strained body, the wavering line between subject and object, as well as the emphasis on drawing in her practice. Woven within the works are the influences of the politics and the people she met in Berlin, which evolved the artist's questions around the expectations of the body and of work under patriarchy and capitalism.
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Install of MAIL
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Das Giftraum, Jan 2021
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Hopkins Hall Gallery, Aug 2020
If, And, With
Collaborative painting show with Hannah Parrett and Kristen Phipps
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Agora Collective, Berlin, Germany, Jan 2019
Two person painting show featuring Louise Thomas and Miranda Holmes
Group show at Prenzlauer Studio / Kunst-kollektiv, Dec 2017
