Holly King (artist)
Holly King | |
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| Born | 1957 (age 66–67) Montreal, Quebec |
| Website | hollykingart |
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 in the guise of plants in the foreground, paintings as a backdrop and cleverly reflected lighting, to give rise, once photographed, to immense landscapes.[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.[5]
In 2012, the Robert McLaughlin Gallery in Oshawa, Ontario presented a travelling mid-career retrospective of her work, titled Holly King: Edging Towards the Mysterious.[5][7] Her work is included in the collections of the Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec,[1] the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts[8] and the National Gallery of Canada[9]
References
- ^ a b "King, Holly".
- ^ "New JNAAG exhibit explores diversity in Canadian photography". 23 May 2019.
- ^ Cousineau-Levine, Penny (2004). Faking Death: Canadian Art Photography and the Canadian Imagination. ISBN 9780773528260.
- ^ 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.
- ^ a b c "Paysages protégés".
- ^ "Solitude by Holly King".
- ^ "Solitude by Holly King".
- ^ "LamentFrom the series "The Forest of Enchantment"".
- ^ "Holly King". www.gallery.ca.
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