Holleman brings to Chelsea a massive scale trash-bag-tidal wave, a mobile public park and a grand street party.
Combining the organic and manipulated, natural and disastrous to create an actual Natural Disaster, TRASHNAMI! is a colorful 20-foot cresting wave of plastic shopping bags that dwarfs ... Read more
Holleman brings to Chelsea a massive scale trash-bag-tidal wave, a mobile public park and a grand street party.
Combining the organic and manipulated, natural and disastrous to create an actual Natural Disaster, TRASHNAMI! is a colorful 20-foot cresting wave of plastic shopping bags that dwarfs viewers and threatens to engulf the exhibition space. TRASHNAMI!, a visually beautiful dystopic piece, is an of-this-moment commentary on big city life, focusing our attention away from the smaller issues of party politics to the larger issues of pollution that challenge our world today.
In addition, White Box will be flagged by several large painted murals and smaller motorized sculptures, which will be operated by the audience during opening night. On the street, Holleman will roll out her award-winning piece, Trailer Park, a complete 10 × 14 foot trailer that has been converted into a mobile public park, for the evening.
Holleman says, “I examine how the forms used in the architectural reality of our world connect to our ideas about the natural environment, the sublime and the mundane, and our relationship to conceptual and physical space.”
Most of Holleman’s work addresses concepts of utopia, utilitarianism, environmentalism, and ideas about perfect form. Using sculpture, architectural model making, installation, photography, drawing, and collage Holleman creates a complete spectrum of ideas in order to present something new born out of something familiar.
Holleman’s previous solo show took place at Black and White Gallery in Williamsburg, Brooklyn and received stellar reviews. Alan Gilbert of The Village Voice says, “The uniqueness-and importance-of Holleman’s eco-aesthetics reside in her imaginative attempts to reconcile this awkward relationship.”
