Mark Holmes: Radiant Bodies

2007-04-27 00:00:00 - 2007-05-27 00:00:00

Mark Holmes first began creating minimal influence sculptures, some with fluorescent lighting, as a graduate student 20 years ago. “Light is itself not exactly physical, and has a way of diffusing or dissolving the weight of things even as it illuminates them,” the artist says. The work he is making now develops this idea, with objects that matter-of-factly project or radiate something that is simultaneously banal and metaphysical.

The sculptures have begun to reference a variety of inert, even belligerent objects that affect the space around them -- lamps, bombs, blowers, or projection equipment – things that are known partly for what they do.

Holmes’ sculpture is both insistent and reluctant about its own physicality, intensely literal in its materiality but with an 'aura' that projects something outside of itself; the thing and its ghost.