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Moira Holohan: Elements

Moira Holohans work is grounded in experimental processes where she manipulates various media including assemblage, video animation, and collage. Layered images and sound come out of her interest to make open narratives that absorb and exploit the juxtaposition of the rational and the absurd. To form and realize these pieces, she uses content derived from current e vents, the historical, literature, and everyday life. Holohan purposefully employs simple materials and methods to investigate these conversations while stressing evidence of mark making, handwork, performance, and time. In this exhibition Holohan presents work inspired by the four classic elements of nature: earth, air, water, and fire. Moira Holohan was born and raised in New York, NY. She holds a B.A. with a concentration in Painting from Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, New York and an MFA from Hunter College, New York, NY, where she was the recipient of the Tom Wood Award. She has exhibited her work in New York, Miami, Santa Fe, and Los Angeles and currently resides in Miami, Fl.
Image: Moira Holohan, Elements, Video animation still, 2 minutes, 2012. ______________________________________________________________________________________________________

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Subprime/Subtropics is Phillip Estlunds first solo exhibition in Broward County. The New York and West Palm Beach-based contemporary visual artist is exhibiting sculptures and twodimensional collages that inhabit the psychological and physical terrain left behind by man-made and natural disasters. Estlunds work deals with concepts that while at times are more urgent to the region are also global concerns. He is an observer of nature both human and environmental and an explorer of psychological space, physical terrain and raw, found materials. By taking the detritus that is left behind from natural disasters such as hurricanes, or manmade waste from old construction, he collects and reconfigures these materials as formal sculpture that reflects the architectural vernacular of South Florida. Estlund also works obsessively in two-dimensional collage which further examine this form of mankinds hubris and naivety in his domination of his environment. Nowhere is this more evident than
Clockwise from top: Subprime/Subtropics, installation view. Thin Air, 2007 Collage on paper, Collection of Madeleine Rudin Johnson. Conjoined (A T otal Loss), 2009, Wood, rubber, polyvinyl chloride, polystyrene, and glue. Florida: A Place in the Sun 120-121, 2012, C-Print on aluminum. Cover image: Untitled, 2012, Photographic mural on wood panel. All images courtesy of the artist and Gavlak Gallery.

hunting and fishing, and Do it Yourself home improvement. Images of fine upscale interiors, people in leisure and recreational activities are laid over and collaged onto found pieces of wood and rusted metal that have some kind of existing markings, which ultimately relate to architectural forms or indicate a kind of landscape. Estlunds longstanding influences include Edward Kienholzs improvised use of materials and methods, Gordon Matta-Clarks selection and aestheticized architectural elements, and the chaos and irrationality of Dada. Following these art historical traditions, Estlund presents theories of destruction as a creative force and assemblage as deconstruction that possesses aesthetic value.

in the vulnerable hurricane and drought region of South Florida. Recently featured in Collage: Assembling Contemporary Art, a historic anthology of collage from Picasso and Duchamp to John Stezaker and Wangechi Mutu, Estlunds collages are again entirely recycled images from old books on landscapes, field guides, modernist architecture,