Mamie Holst: From the Series 'Landscape Before Dying'
September 30, 2006- November 4, 2006
Reception: September 30, 5:30 pm - 7:30 pm
530 W 25th St
With her ongoing series of paintings titled “Landscape Before Dying,”
Mamie Holst explores the inspiring abstract landscape within her experience of chronic fatigue and immune disfunction syndrome. Since 1989, when she was diagnosed with CFIDS and forced to return home, she has mined her syndrome related sensations for her work’s static, tremor, crosshairs, elegance, distortion, drift, space, targets, voids, isolation, and peace. They remind me of the silent black and white leader counting down to the beginning of a film.
Mamie Holst noted that“I feel like I don't really think anymore. Of course I still think or else I wouldn't function obviously, but it's a much more basic type of thinking. It's like if you try to think big thoughts your brain hits a blank wall. When painting, it just sort of comes out. While looking at a finished painting, I can't really remember how I did it. I know where I put the lines down etc., but most of the decision making is more subconscious.”
Mamie Holst was born in Florida during 1961. She attended School of Visual Arts in New York City from 1987 - 1989, and currently lives in Ft. Myers, FL. A John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship was awarded
Mamie Holst in 2005.
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New York (Chelsea)
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