Chris Holloway
Curriculum Vitae
Born: 1979, San Antonio, Texas
Education:
2001 Academy of Art College, San Francisco, California
2001-2002 University of Texas at Austin
2003-2006 BFA, Texas State University, San Marcos, Texas
Professional Experience:
2007, Art Installer, S & P Stanikas, Volitant Gallery, Austin, Texas
2003-2009, Scenic Backdrop Painter/Sign Designer, Strong Events
2010, Prop and Furniture Design, Townsley Designs
2011, Owner/Lead Artist, Fuzzy Popsycle
Exhibitions: (Paintings)
2006
Gallery 2, Senior Thesis Show, San Marcos, Texas
Gallery Lombardi, Juried Group Show, Austin, Texas
Shady Tree Studios, FASA Juried Group Show, Austin, Texas
East Austin Studio Tour(Studio 32), Austin, Texas
2007
East Austin Studio Tour(Studio 50), Austin, Texas
Austin Figurative Gallery, Self-Portrait Show, Austin, Texas
Else Madsen Gallery, Greece on Fire Group Show, Austin, Texas
Quattro Gallery, White Buffalo Project Group Show, Austin, Texas
2008
Austin Figurative Gallery, Self-Portrait Show, Austin, Texas
Pump Project Art Complex, Rhymes with Orange Group Show, Austin, Texas
Austin Figurative Gallery, Solo Show, Austin, Texas
Hovercraft, Group Show, Austin, Texas
Pump Project Art Complex, 5ft by 7ft Group Show, Austin, Texas
Design Center at Penn Field, Art Auction, Austin, Texas
East Austin Studio Tour(Studio 72), Austin, Texas
Gallery Lombardi, Juried Erotica Group Show, Austin, Texas
2009
Co-Lab Multi-Media Project Space, Collaborative Installation, Austin, Texas
Co-Lab Multi-Media Project Space, Collaborative Mural, Austin, Texas
Pump Project Art Complex, Dog Art Group Show, Austin, Texas
Pump Project Art Complex, Art Auction, Austin, Texas
Arthouse at the Jones Center, 5 x 7 Group Show, Austin, Texas
Arthouse at the Jones Center, 60 WRD/MIN ART CRITIC, Austin, Texas
Women and Their Work, Red Hot Red Dot, Austin, Texas
E.A.S.T, East Austin Studio Tour, Austin, Texas
United States Art Authority, Art Auction, Austin, Texas
Co-Lab Multi-Media Project Space, Group show/ Collaborative Mural, Austin, Texas.
2010
Co-Lab Multi-Media Project Space, Group Show, Austin, Texas
Arthouse at the Jones Center, 5x7 Group Show, Austin, Texas
Arthouse at the Jones Center, 5x7 Group Show, Dallas, Texas
Starving Art, Grand Opening, Austin, Texas
Pump Project Satellite Space, Tesla Project, Austin, Texas
Birdhouse Gallery, Solo Show, Austin, Texas
Women and Their Work, Red Dot, Austin, Texas
2011
Arthouse at the Jones Center, 5x7 Group show, Austin, Texas
Limerick Frazier Gallery, Group show, Austin, Texas
East Austin Studio Tour, Fuzzy Popsycle(Commercial Art Services Company) Opening, Austin Texas
Exhibitions: (Short Film, Live Screen Printing)
2009
Pump Project Art Complex, Dog Art Group Show, Austin, Texas
Quattro Gallery, Dog Art Group Show, Austin, Texas
Alamo Draft House, The A/V Swap 2009, Austin, Texas
2010
D’Monstrative Studios, Grand Opening Art Show, Austin, Texas
Co-Lab Multi-Media Project Space, Live Screen Print Show
Pump Project Art Complex, Live Screen Print Show
Pump Project Satellite Space, Live Screen Print Show
Artist Statement
In this series I question beauty and the lack of it by pairing the two in their iconic states and the standard of their measure. Ultimately popular culture is questioned. Celebrities rarely show us their true selves, it is always a different persona because they are acting or trying to create a particular character. The tabloids are trying to tell the truth about these people, but there is still a mask or mystery about them. The celebrities as measured by popular culture and the projection of beauty onto women by popular culture are portrayed in my compositions. I also think that our U.S currency is in question. I am making compositions (paintings, drawings, and mixed media) involving the one dollar to the 100,000 dollar and charging that price for them. I am questioning if these paintings are worth what I am charging and asking if our currency is worth what it says.
