Select works: 2000-2003
At one point in time, I began thinking of these works as still lifes, though not in the traditional sense. The works revolve, however, around the still life object: items that symbolize life, its cycles, journeys, rituals, ceremonies. Fruits and vegetables, for example, symbolize sustaining aspects of life, cycles and fertility. Vases and bowls represent various rituals or ceremonies. Often these objects fade or dissolve into the background, therefore dissolving and blurring the boundary between object and background, creating a greater unity.
Exploring contrasts is also of interest to me. In these works one finds the contrast of the man made object with the natural object, sturdy metal teapots with delicate bird eggs, the permanency of stone contrasted with the impermanency of paper lanterns. There is also a contrast between the realistic object, with its suggestion or illusion of depth, and the flat, highly abstract background, composed of pattern, letters and paint smears. Contrasts are significant in that they allow us to see and define opposites. Without light, how would one know darkness? Contrasts can also allow us to see connections and inter-relationships.
portfolio: 2000-2003
casting stones at my memories | oil on canvas
http://dev.bryanhollandarts.com/images/bha-works/2000-2003/casting-stones-at-my-memories.jpg
color of memory | oil on canvas
http://dev.bryanhollandarts.com/images/bha-works/2000-2003/color-of-memory.jpg
direction | oil and print fabric on canvas
http://dev.bryanhollandarts.com/images/bha-works/2000-2003/direction.jpg
equilibrium | oil on canvas
http://dev.bryanhollandarts.com/images/bha-works/2000-2003/equilibrium.jpg
fear of falling | oil on canvas
http://dev.bryanhollandarts.com/images/bha-works/2000-2003/fear-of-falling.jpg
finding a balance | oil on canvas
http://dev.bryanhollandarts.com/images/bha-works/2000-2003/finding-balance.jpg
forty revolutions | oil on canvas
http://dev.bryanhollandarts.com/images/bha-works/2000-2003/forty-revolutions.jpg
gift | oil on canvas
http://dev.bryanhollandarts.com/images/bha-works/2000-2003/gift.jpg
greenhouse | oil on paper
http://dev.bryanhollandarts.com/images/bha-works/2000-2003/greenhouse.jpg
impermanency | oil on canvas
http://dev.bryanhollandarts.com/images/bha-works/2000-2003/impermanency.jpg
the inevitability of things | oil on canvas
http://dev.bryanhollandarts.com/images/bha-works/2000-2003/inevitability-of-things.jpg
now I lay me down to sleep | oil and print fabric on canvas
http://dev.bryanhollandarts.com/images/bha-works/2000-2003/lay-me-down.jpg
memory of orion | oil on canvas
http://dev.bryanhollandarts.com/images/bha-works/2000-2003/memory-of-orion.jpg
my falling sky | oil on canvas
http://dev.bryanhollandarts.com/images/bha-works/2000-2003/my-falling-sky.jpg
plato's dream | oil on panel
http://dev.bryanhollandarts.com/images/bha-works/2000-2003/platos-dream.jpg
requiem for Zeuxis | oil on canvas
http://dev.bryanhollandarts.com/images/bha-works/2000-2003/requiem-for-zeuxis.jpg
stratification of ritual | oil on canvas
http://dev.bryanhollandarts.com/images/bha-works/2000-2003/stratification-of-ritual.jpg
things we leave behind | oil on canvas
http://dev.bryanhollandarts.com/images/bha-works/2000-2003/things-we-leave-behind.jpg
third day | oil on canvas
http://dev.bryanhollandarts.com/images/bha-works/2000-2003/third-day.jpg
this present chaos (for roger) | oil on canvas
http://dev.bryanhollandarts.com/images/bha-works/2000-2003/this-present-chaos.jpg
twelve bells | oil on canvas
http://dev.bryanhollandarts.com/images/bha-works/2000-2003/twelve-bells.jpg
untitled (onions) | oil and collage on canvas
http://dev.bryanhollandarts.com/images/bha-works/2000-2003/untitled-onions.jpg
untitled (peaches) | oil and collage on canvas
http://dev.bryanhollandarts.com/images/bha-works/2000-2003/untitled-peaches.jpg
untitled (vertebrae) | oil and collage on canvas
http://dev.bryanhollandarts.com/images/bha-works/2000-2003/untitled-vertebrae.jpg
what lies within | oil on canvas
http://dev.bryanhollandarts.com/images/bha-works/2000-2003/what-lies-within.jpg
white painting | oil on canvas
http://dev.bryanhollandarts.com/images/bha-works/2000-2003/white-painting.jpg
wilderness | oil on canvas
http://dev.bryanhollandarts.com/images/bha-works/2000-2003/wilderness.jpg
tea ceremony | oil on canvas
http://dev.bryanhollandarts.com/images/bha-works/2000-2003/tea-ceremony.jpg