Gallery Joe
302 Arch Street
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19106

Ode to tape: drawings by Kristin Holder Gallery Joe

Gallery Joe is pleased to announce a solo show of drawings by Washington, DC artist Kristin Holder. Ode to tape opens in the Vault Gallery March 6 and runs through April 25, 2009. This is Holder’s first exhibition in Philadelphia.

In her statement about the show Holder writes, “The show consists of 10 to 12 unframed charcoal or graphite drawings taped directly to the walls. The tape mediates the space between the drawing and the wall and differentiates phases of the drawing process...from causal to trivial to clumsy or precise. The sizes vary from 10 x 10 to 22 x 22 inches. Individually, the drawings are a tribute to other artists and the devices they have developed to reconcile reality, as we know it to reality as we see it. For me, drawing is thinking and is in itself a means by which to resolve that duality.”

Holder has attended residencies at the The Edward F. Albee Foundation, Montauk, NY and Millay Colony for the Arts, Austerlitz, NY. She has received grants from the Independent Artist Fellowship, DCCAH/NEA and The Pollack Krasner Foundation. Holder received her BA in painting with a minor in chemistry from the University of Washington, Seattle, WA and her MFA in painting form the American University, Washington, DC. She lives and works in Washington, DC.

Ode to tape opens in the Vault Gallery on March 6 and continues through April 25. There will be a reception for the artist on First Friday, March 6, from 6:30 – 8:30 pm.

Curvilinear: group show of drawings in the Front Gallery at Gallery Joe

Mae West famously stated, “The curve is more powerful than the sword.” She was, of course, referring to her feminine wiles and curvaceous form and not to a line on paper. In Curvilinear at Gallery Joe we show that curves on paper have the power to be humorous or rigorously precise, gestural or formally elegant. Twelve artists show work composed entirely of curved lines. Materials vary widely and remind us that there are myriad ways of arriving at a curve. They include ink, watercolor, fruit stickers, graphite, colored pencil, and crushed mirror.

Artists in the show are William Anastasi, Astrid Bowlby, Emily Brown, Annabel Daou, Gerhard Mayer, Sharon Louden, Linn Meyers, Emilio Perez, Laurie Reid, Mark Sheinkman, Lynne Woods Turner, Rachel Perry Welty.

Curvilinear opens in the Front Gallery on Friday, March 6 and continues through April 25, 2009. This show runs concurrently with Ode to tape, a solo show of drawings by Kristin Holder in the Vault Gallery. There will be a reception on First Friday, March 6 from 6:30 – 8:30 PM.