Douglas Holmes

Welded steel, cast resin, mirror, granite 5’x42”x12’ 1982

Welded steel, cast resin, mirror, granite 5’x42”x12’ 1982

Welded steel, cast resin, mirror, granite 5’x42”x12’ 1982

Welded steel, cast resin, mirror, granite 5’x42”x12’ 1982

Welded steel, cast resin, mirror, granite 5’x42”x12’ 1982

Welded steel, cast resin, mirror, granite 5’x42”x12’ 1982

 Welded steel, resin, vacuum formed plastic, water 9'x5'x28" 1980

 Welded steel, resin, vacuum formed plastic, water 9'x5'x28" 1980

 Welded steel, resin, vacuum formed plastic, water 9'x5'x28" 1980

 Welded steel, resin, vacuum formed plastic, water 9'x5'x28" 1980

Welded steel, Plexiglas 6’x10’x5’ 1980

Welded steel, Plexiglas 6’x10’x5’ 1980

Welded steel, Plexiglas 6’x10’x5’ 1980

 Welded steel, Plexiglas 6’x10’x5’ 1980

Plexiglas, lead, wood, aluminum foil, glass 21”x60”x11” 1983

Plexiglas, lead, wood, aluminum foil, glass 21”x60”x11” 1983

Plexiglas, lead, wood, aluminum foil, glass 21”x60”x11” 1983

Plexiglas, lead, wood, aluminum foil, glass 21”x60”x11” 1983

Plexiglas, lead, wood, aluminum foil, glass 21”x60”x11” 1983

Lead, plastic, glass, wood 14 3/4”x11 1/2”x2” 1980

8”x3 1/2”x1/2” 1980

 Lead 25”x14”x1 1/2” 1980

Lead 11”x5”x1” 1980

Lead, found steel object 18”x9”x3/4” 1980

Lead 12 1/2”x6 1/2”x3/4” 1980

Lead 11”x9”x1/2” 1980

Lead 4”x4 1/2”x1/4” 1980

Lead, Plexiglas 10”x8”x1” 1980

Lead 10”x4”x1” 1980

Lead, glass 12”x8”x1” 1980

Lead, plastic 9”x7”x1/2” 1980

Lead, plastic 7 3/4”x6”x1/2” 1980

Lead, plastic 8”x7”x1/2” 1980

Lead 10 1/2”x7”x1/2” 1980

Lead 6”x7”x1/2” 1980

That an artist's work is both public and private is a basic contradiction both you and I have to accept. The work that you see here has some personal meaning that I have no hope or desire for you to understand, yet to share the commonality of our experience is at its core. My work refers to, but seldom is, a specific thing. I want you to to feel remembrances being pulled to the surface. The lead reliefs in this series have come to be in waves, and like a wave  I have gone back into them to change and re-order. A few quiet moments of contemplation, a few visual references were expanded into a group of sculptures whose interrelationship is akin to that of poems in a collection. Although they were worked on in the presence of my large sculptures, they were approached as separate. They came to be by the assertion of their abilities to make their meanings known. Outweighed and outsized by their studio mates they turned inward and concentrated their content, refusing to become sketches or models. Their titles are meant to lead not explain.