Tom Holmes

Lives and works in Jackson County, TN, USA

Artist statement

https://tomtexasholmes.wixsite.com/mysite (excerpt from interview btw Dominic Eichler and artist Tom Holmes) "DE: I’m feeling wary about the hubris entailed in the notion of the ‘contemporary’. It seems to me most of the things that matter to us in life and art have long tangled roots, and that’s the reason for my evocation of art history in these questions, exculpation, and both deconstruction and synthesis seem to me to be crucial. Are the paintings of objects such as the mirror, or the stacked objects about the construction of a subject? TH: Right. I’m proposing that the nature of any given object/image is illusory. One, of the one-hundred-and-one, mechanisms of metaphor is the object gets to remain the object while the subject gets slippery as f*ck. There’s the Duchampian gag at an elementary level (i.e. The Eggo frozen waffle brand Leggo My Eggo™ becomes the bodhisattva’s instruction to let go of my ego) Then at an increasingly more complex stratum there is my rather elusive list of concepts that need better metaphors. Um, well I do have more to say about metaphor, but perhaps it’s best I don’t say too much. Metaphor loses its punch without succinctness." https://www.gallery-weekend-berlin.de/journal/efremidis-interview-with-tom-holmes-and-curator-and-writer-dominic-eichler/ https://www.vonammon.co/files/ugd/51f4d3382b600812f24a519a09745df118ebb3.pdf

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