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For thirty years, Holly King has been making meticulously staged images from miniature theaters, groups of small sculptures composed of plants in the foreground, paintings as a backdrop and cleverly reflected lighting, to give rise, once photographed, to immense landscapes through which King hopes to reveal the beautiful and sublime.<ref name="rmg">{{cite web |title=Holly King: Edging Towards the Mysterious |url=http://rmg.on.ca/exhibitions/holly-king/|website=rmg.on.ca |publisher=Robert McLaughlin Gallery, Oshawa |access-date=2021-06-15}}</ref><ref name="le devoir">{{Cite web | url=https://www.ledevoir.com/culture/arts-visuels/494171/paysages-proteges |title = Paysages protégés}}</ref> For the last 10 years, King has moved back and forth between constructed images to images of real places and back again. She sometimes added machine elements or constructed small still life subjects from plants.<ref name="le devoir" />
For thirty years, Holly King has been making meticulously staged images from miniature theaters, groups of small sculptures composed of plants in the foreground, paintings as a backdrop and cleverly reflected lighting, to give rise, once photographed, to immense landscapes through which King hopes to reveal the beautiful and sublime.<ref name="rmg">{{cite web |title=Holly King: Edging Towards the Mysterious |url=http://rmg.on.ca/exhibitions/holly-king/|website=rmg.on.ca |publisher=Robert McLaughlin Gallery, Oshawa |access-date=2021-06-15}}</ref><ref name="le devoir">{{Cite web | url=https://www.ledevoir.com/culture/arts-visuels/494171/paysages-proteges |title = Paysages protégés}}</ref> For the last 10 years, King has moved back and forth between constructed images to images of real places and back again. She sometimes added machine elements or constructed small still life subjects from plants.<ref name="le devoir" />


King studied visual arts at Laval University, where she earned her BFA in 1979. She then studied visual arts and modern dance at York University, completing her MFA in 1981.<ref name="rmg" /> In 2016, Linda Jansma curated a travelling mid-career [[retrospective]] of her work for the [[Robert McLaughlin Gallery]] in Oshawa, Ontario, titled ''Holly King: Edging Towards the Mysterious''.<ref name="rmg"/> It showed the last 10 years of her work, both constructions and her more recent "viewing boxes".<ref name="le devoir" /> Her work is included in the collections of the [[Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec]],<ref name="MNBAQ">{{Cite web | url=https://collections.mnbaq.org/fr/artiste/600005084 |title = King, Holly}}</ref> the [[Montreal Museum of Fine Arts]]<ref>{{Cite web | url=https://www.mbam.qc.ca/en/works/35026/ |title = LamentFrom the series "The Forest of Enchantment"}}</ref> the [[Robert McLaughlin Gallery]],<ref>{{Cite web | url=http://rmg.on.ca/collections/solitude-by-holly-king/ |title = Solitude by Holly King}}</ref> and the [[National Gallery of Canada]]<ref name="NGC">{{Cite web|url=https://www.gallery.ca/collection/artist/holly-king|title=Holly King|website=www.gallery.ca}}</ref> King teaches at Concordia University in Montreal.<ref name="rmg" />
King studied visual arts at Laval University, where she earned her BFA in 1979. She then studied visual arts and modern dance at York University, completing her MFA in 1981.<ref name="rmg" /> In 2016, Linda Jansma curated a travelling mid-career [[retrospective]] of her work for the [[Robert McLaughlin Gallery]] in Oshawa, Ontario, titled ''Holly King: Edging Towards the Mysterious''.<ref name="rmg"/> It showed the last 10 years of her work, both constructions and her more recent "viewing boxes".<ref name="rmg"/><ref name="le devoir" /> Her work is included in the collections of the [[Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec]],<ref name="MNBAQ">{{Cite web | url=https://collections.mnbaq.org/fr/artiste/600005084 |title = King, Holly}}</ref> the [[Montreal Museum of Fine Arts]]<ref>{{Cite web | url=https://www.mbam.qc.ca/en/works/35026/ |title = LamentFrom the series "The Forest of Enchantment"}}</ref> the [[Robert McLaughlin Gallery]],<ref>{{Cite web | url=http://rmg.on.ca/collections/solitude-by-holly-king/ |title = Solitude by Holly King}}</ref> and the [[National Gallery of Canada]]<ref name="NGC">{{Cite web|url=https://www.gallery.ca/collection/artist/holly-king|title=Holly King|website=www.gallery.ca}}</ref> King teaches at Concordia University in Montreal.<ref name="rmg" />


==References==
==References==

Revision as of 12:40, 15 June 2021

Holly King
Born1957 (age 66–67)
Montreal, Quebec
Websitehollykingart.com

Holly King (born 1957 in Montreal) is a Canadian artist based in Montreal,[1] known for her photographs of constructed landscapes.[2][3] She views landscape as a product of the imagination.[4]

Career

For thirty years, Holly King has been making meticulously staged images from miniature theaters, groups of small sculptures composed of plants in the foreground, paintings as a backdrop and cleverly reflected lighting, to give rise, once photographed, to immense landscapes through which King hopes to reveal the beautiful and sublime.[5][6] For the last 10 years, King has moved back and forth between constructed images to images of real places and back again. She sometimes added machine elements or constructed small still life subjects from plants.[6]

King studied visual arts at Laval University, where she earned her BFA in 1979. She then studied visual arts and modern dance at York University, completing her MFA in 1981.[5] In 2016, Linda Jansma curated a travelling mid-career retrospective of her work for the Robert McLaughlin Gallery in Oshawa, Ontario, titled Holly King: Edging Towards the Mysterious.[5] It showed the last 10 years of her work, both constructions and her more recent "viewing boxes".[5][6] Her work is included in the collections of the Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec,[1] the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts[7] the Robert McLaughlin Gallery,[8] and the National Gallery of Canada[9] King teaches at Concordia University in Montreal.[5]

References

  1. ^ a b "King, Holly".
  2. ^ "New JNAAG exhibit explores diversity in Canadian photography". 23 May 2019.
  3. ^ Cousineau-Levine, Penny (2004). Faking Death: Canadian Art Photography and the Canadian Imagination. ISBN 9780773528260.
  4. ^ Langford, Martha (2010). "A Short History of Photography, 1900-2000". The Visual Arts in Canada: the Twentieth Century. Foss, Brian, Paikowsky, Sandra, Whitelaw, Anne (eds.). Don Mills, Ont.: Oxford University Press. p. 298. ISBN 978-0-19-542125-5.
  5. ^ a b c d e "Holly King: Edging Towards the Mysterious". rmg.on.ca. Robert McLaughlin Gallery, Oshawa. Retrieved 2021-06-15.
  6. ^ a b c "Paysages protégés".
  7. ^ "LamentFrom the series "The Forest of Enchantment"".
  8. ^ "Solitude by Holly King".
  9. ^ "Holly King". www.gallery.ca.
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