Unfolding Images: Accordion Books by Laura Holland
Laura Holland traveled through Eastern Europe looking for eloquent details that, piece by piece, combine to convey some vital sense of the larger scene. The exhibition will feature Hollands' accordion books. According to Holland, images unfolding across connected pages gave her the structure she sought. Berlin, Prague, Presov, Kosice, Cluj, and other Eastern European cities provided the subject matter.
From Laura Holland's Artist Statement:
Intriguing juxtapositions emerge when the formerly elegant, often dilapidated, history-laden architecture of Eastern Europe crushes up against the hustle, rush, and bustle of life today. Sometimes these buildings reel out of the collision covered in graffiti and stencil art; other times they are lovingly restored or elegantly remodeled; still other times they are razed to the ground and replaced by a completely new structure. In the fragments of these old buildings, I look for the eloquent details that, piece by piece, combine to convey some vital sense of the larger scene.
Laura Holland is an artist and writer, as well as a lecturer in the UMass Amherst Art Department. She has taught at the George Walter Vincent Smith Art Museum in Springfield, Massachusetts, as well as at the Sarajevo Youth House in Bosnia-Herzegovina.
Opening reception: Wednesday, February 13, 4:30-6:30 p.m.
