KatieHolmes

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Artist Statement

My work centers around the idea of “play,” both through its creation and content. I am attracted to art that engages the viewer physically and emotionally, and am also interested in my own playful interaction with different media – in gestural paintings, sculptural landscapes, and narrative drawings. I particularly consider the action of play through the immediacy, ephemerality, and chance of watercolor, a medium that I apply quickly and find is constantly running away from me, like a childhood memory or a dream after awakening.

​Play is also, though, a venue for expressing repression and invoking nostalgia. In the play space, repressed sexual, gendered, socially hierarchical and otherwise taboo curiosities may be experimented with. The word “play” itself straddles both the innocent child world and sexual adult one. As such, it represents a lost naiveté, while simultaneously questioning the authenticity of that innocent child-state

About

I grew up in the Bay Area and have a passion for exploring and collaborating in art and in life. I work mostly in watercolor on paper. I also have experience making sets/props, murals, posters, newspaper/magazine illustration, and artwork/design for albums, websites, and marketing material.

Education

Scenic Work


2014 B.A. Art Practice and English, University of California, Berkeley
event, theater, and set design work
  • 2017-current scenic painter for Berkeley Repertory Theater, Berkeley
  • 2019 scenic painter for The Importance of Being Earnest at Aurora Theater, Berkeley
  • 2019 scenic painter for Actually at Aurora Theater, Berkeley
  • 2018 scenic painter for Tartuffe at UC Berkeley, Berkeley
  • 2018 scenic painter for Men on Boats at ACT, San Francisco
  • 2018 scenic painter for Everybody at CalShakes, Orinda
  • 2018 scenic/costume designer/artist for Beats Antique
  • 2018 scenic painter for James and the Giant Peach at Berkeley Playhouse, Berkeley
  • 2017 scenic painter for The Royale at Aurora Theater, Berkeley
  • 2017 scenic painter for Brownsville Song (B-Side For Tray) at Shotgun Players, Berkeley
  • 2017 scenic painter for Temple at Aurora Theater, Berkeley
  • 2017 backdrop designer/painter for Youth Theater Program of the San Francisco Mime Troupe, San Francisco
  • 2016 scenic painter for  Who's Afraid of Virginia Wolf at Shotgun Players , Berkeley
  • 2016 music video and tour stage designer/artist for Beats Antique
  • 2015 store designer/artist for Beats Antique's Shadow Box in collaboration with Black Lotus Clothing, Oakland
  • 2015 prop designer/artist for Youth Theater Program of the San Francisco Mime Troupe, San Francisco
  • 2015-2018 set and prop designer/artist and personal assistant for Black Lotus Clothing fashion photo shoots, Oakland
  • 2014 set and prop designer/artist and production assistant for Goonies themed Halloween event at the Haunted Mansion art house, Oakland
  • 2014 set and prop designer/artist for Brecht Now! through Change Theater Collective, Berkeley

Exhibitions

currently showing work at:
  • intaglio prints for sale at Panorama Framing, Oakland
past shows
  • 2017 group show at Brainwash Cafe, San Francisco
  • 2016 solo show at Torpedo Sushi, Oakland
  • 2014-2015 CDXX restaurant, San Francisco
  • 2014 UC Berkeley senior class exhibition
  • 2014 UC Berkeley print sale
  • 2014 group print show through UC Berkeley for Bridges SGC International Conference
  • 2014 Manos Nouveau restaurant, San Francisco
  • 2013 group show through Blue Vue Productions, San Francisco
work featured in
  • 2014 Words of the Watershed literary journal, UC Berkeley
  • 2014 Imaginarium Issue #2, UC Berkeley
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