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Tim Holmes, artist-philosopher |
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• The Moving Art of Tim Holmes, a 2011 European documentary
Tim Holmes is the first American artist ever invited to exhibit solo at the world's largest art museum, the Hermitage in St. Petersburg, Russia, where his sculptures remain on permanent exhibit. He has created sculpture for some of the world's peacemaking organizations from the United Nations to the Chinese dissident students of Tiananmen Square. Archbishop Desmond Tutu, President Jimmy Carter, President Vaclav Havel, and Coretta Scott King are among Holmes' best-known collectors.
Though
Holmes is known for his sculpture internationally, he sometimes works
in other media and often uses his art outside of the art world. His
award-winning series of short films, called the Body Psalms project, reflects his fascination with the sacred body with films illuminated with
scriptures frm various religions in a kind of sculptural poetry.
These films question the inevitable devaluation of the body in
capitalist culture and have appeared at special screenings– frequently
in educational settings– in the US and Europe.
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I believe that art can transform us in ways impossible through any other human activity. Works of art are the footprints into the journey of aliveness in an endlessly stimulating world. The exclusively human gift of creativity makes us indeed God’s junior partners in the co-creation of a yet unfinished Universe. Art has the magical capacity to make us aware of both the outer and inner worlds simultaneously, often so puzzling because while it can sometimes make no sense to our minds, it can feel so right to our souls; helping remind us that reason is too flimsy a tool to access the mystery. Art moves us on a level beneath comprehension. In my work I attempt to access– through the metaphors of outer forms– the inner material beneath politics and personality that imbues everyday life with passionate richness. On that level we are all family, a truth of which the outer life leaves us forgetful, but of which art always reminds us. In the presence of a good work of art we experience a strange alchemy that can transform the confusing and painful into the beautiful and meaningful, reminding our souls through a silent, intimate exchange, that we are not– after all– alone. I've
always used many media and have focused recdently on film as a means of
addressing what I see as a critical problem facing the world on the
scale of global warming but that remains largely invisible: the
devaluation of the body by global capitalism. |
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Selected Solo Museum Exhibitions
The Hermitage, St. Petersburg, Russia Coral Springs Museum of Art, Coral Springs, Florida Frye Art Museum, Seattle, Washington, Paris Gibson Museum of Art, Great Falls, Montana Nevada Museum of Art, Reno, Nevada Museum of the Rockies, Bozeman, Montana
Hockaday Museum of Art, Kalispell, Montana Holter Museum of Art, Helena, Montana Museum of Fine Arts, Univ. of Mont., Missoula, Montana Awards and Honors: Best Artwork Award, “The 23rd Psalm”, New Media Film Festival, Berkeley, CA, 2007
Dozens of speaking engagements, workshops and classes delivered over 30 years, from the International
Arts Movement (NYC) to the American Society of Clinical Social
Workers (Seattle) to the Union Theological Seminary, (NYC) More
details on request. Archbishop Desmond M. Tutu, 1984 Nobel Peace Prize Winner President Jimmy Carter Vaclev Havel, President of Czechoslovakia Coretta Scott King Dr. Jonas Salk, Polio vaccine developer Thabo Mbeki, President of South Africa Gro Harlem Brundtland, Prime Minister of Norway Madam Jehan Sadat, Former First Lady of Egypt Li Lu, Chinese Pro-Democracy Movement Rosalyn Carter, recipient of Peace Links award Sen. Mike Mansfield Archbishop Elias Chacour, Nobel Peace Prize nominee Andrew Young, U.S. Ambassador to U.N., Atlanta Mayor Dr. Benjamin Spock Norman Cousins, author George Kennan, U.S. ambassador and “father of containment” Edward Albee, playwright Valentina Tereshkova, first woman cosmonaut Marianne Williamson, author and spritual leader Mary Hart, “Entertainment Tonight” co-host Bob Beckel, The Five, Fox News; Crossfire, CNN Selected Commissions: Leadership Award for Women, Freedom to Create, Singapore, 2011 U.N. Women's Peace Prize, U.N. Development Fund for Women. NY, NY, and International Alert, London, UK, 2001 Education and Training: Master’s Program, Sir John Cass School of Art, London, 1981 Rapid City, South Dakota, May 8, 1955
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