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Laurel Holloman debuts a series of new work in “Memory and Movement” taking place on American Independence Day in the heart of Paris.
Laurel Holloman于美国独立日在巴黎市中心首次举办主题为“Memory and Movement”（回忆与乐章）的画展
When: Friday, July 5 to Sunday, July 14, 2019, Gallery Hours 11 a.m. to 7 p.m.
Where: Galerie Joseph, 7 Rue Froissart 75003, Paris
For more information, visit laurelholloman.net
What: Memory and Movement present stunning new works from Laurel Holloman as well as several paintings from her series Color Forest, which premiered during the 2018 Milan Design Week.
举办时间：2019年7月5日星期五至7月14日星期日的每天上午11点到下午7点
举办地点：Galerie Joseph, 7 Rue Froissart 75003, Paris
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具体内容：“回忆与乐章”画展既展示了Laurel Holloman令人惊叹的新作品，也展示了她在2018年米兰设计周举办的“Color Forest”（彩色森林）的部分画作。
For this exhibition, the theme of movement is beautifully expressed with swirling shapes flowing across each canvas and energetic brushstrokes whipping across rich shades of color.
本次展览中，乐章主题画布上流动，丰富的色彩、不同的浓淡通过活力笔触表达出来。
Certain images are deliberately blurred so the viewer must sit with each piece a little longer to perceive its meaning. Many of the larger pieces are paintings within paintings where Holloman has left the first layer peeking through the next by either blurring the final layer or scraping back to the first layer underneath it all. Holloman purposely juxtaposes the technical memory of the paint with her own conscious and unconscious memory.
有些图像是故意模糊的，这样参展者必须站远一点，才能感受它的含义。许多大型作品都采用了多次画法，Laurel或模糊表层或使用画刀铲入底层，让画面展现出一种窥视感。她用绘画技巧完美融合了记忆与意识。
“I believe the task of preserving memory is difficult because the unconscious mind is constantly changing it. This is why it is so complicated, but yet so interesting to explore in paint. Memory is never finite. Never a complete truth. It can stay close, but is never a twin,” the artist muses.
“我认为彻底记清楚一件事是很困难的，因为潜意识会不断修改它。这就是它在探索之路上既复杂又有趣的原因。记忆无限，但又不完全贴近于现实。它们相似，又不完全相同。”艺术家沉思着。
“Memory is attached to an emotion, so I used a select life event when painting each work and I also wanted to technically see what the paint reveals in memory when it is layered a certain way.”
“记忆同时也依附着情感，所以在画画时我会选择一件确实发生过的事然后将它展现在画布上。同时我也想看看通过绘画方式对回忆分层后，它会展现出什么。”
Co-produced by Little Monkey Productions (USA) and Claudine Gil Galerie (France), Memory and Movement is Holloman’s second solo exhibition at Galerie Joseph. Her first show at the gallery was in 2014 with The Fifth Element, a series that explored the elements of earth, air, fire, and water.
“Memory and Movement”是Laurel在Galerie Joseph举办的第二次画展，这次画展中由美国小猴子制作公司与法国Claudine Gil画廊共同制作。她第一次在这举办的画展是2014年的“The Fifth Element”，那次画展的中心是探索水火土风。
These forces still unite her recent works, which burst in hues ranging from fiery red and deep watery turquoise to lush greens and earthy tones. Whether blurred or sharp in focus, there is a constant theme of nature in Holloman’s palette. Her paintings take the viewer elsewhere to another world of extreme color, spirituality, and meditation.
这些元素也出现在她最近的主题当中。火红色、深水色、葱郁绿色或者泥土色依旧无处不在。不管焦点模糊还是尖锐，Laurel的调色板上永远有着自然的主题。她的画能把观赏者带入一个充满色彩、灵性与冥想的另一个世界。
About the artist, Laurel Holloman: Based in Los Angeles, Laurel Holloman is known for her vibrant use of color and larger-than-life paintings capable of capturing tumultuous emotions with a vivid movement that create a three-dimensional illusion.
而Laurel Holloman，是一位驻扎在洛杉矶，以能够捕捉到纷乱情绪，创造三维幻觉，善于色彩应用而闻名天下的画家。
“I feel my paintings have a secret language born out of science and my obsessiveness with why and how we are here. I paint through abstraction with subtle hints of elemental imagery; the sky, water, fire, earth, a bird flying, cells reproducing, or a celestial bed of stars. I am obsessed with metallics and textures and use playful brushstrokes that give the paintings a third dimension and explore emotion,” she reveals.
“我觉得我的画里有源于科学的秘密语言，这也是我执着于我们为什么，又以怎样的方式扎根在此的原因。我的画里有微妙的抽象元素：天空、水、火、地球、飞翔的鸟、细胞的繁衍，又或者是群星所在的宇宙。我迷恋金属色与纹理还有顽皮的笔触，我喜欢用它们绘制出三维与探索情感。”她透露道。
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Ever since her acclaimed debut in 2010 with her New York studio collection, TriBeCa, Holloman has firmly established her artistic presence both domestically and abroad.
自从2010年首次以“TriBeCa”为主题在纽约举办画展开始，Holloman已经在国内外牢牢树立了自己的艺术形象。
In April 2012, Coeur Libre exhibited at the Pantheon Town Hall in Paris by invitation of the mayor. In this show, some 15 of Holloman’s works were on view. Juxtaposing the sensation of freedom with the weight of repression, Holloman was able to capture the dichotomy of opposing forces—a recurring through line in the artist’s oeuvre—by skillfully playing with multiple layers of color, texture, and movement.
2012年4月，应市长邀请，Laurel在巴黎Pantheon市政厅展览了15幅作品。通过巧妙的色彩与纹理，以及笔触的流动性，画家精准捕捉到了两股对立的力量，将自由的感觉与压抑的重量并置到了画布上。
This show was followed by Free Falling at The Ateneo Veneto and ran during the 2012 Venice Architecture Biennale and was the first exhibition to contain large luminous murals. This exhibition was also the first collaboration between Holloman and Lea Mattarella, art history professor and art critic for La Repubblica, who curated the installation.
这些作品随后在威尼斯Ateneo Veneto的“Free Falling”画展中继续展出，那时威尼斯同时在举办威尼斯建筑双年展，所以这些画首次在发光墙上展出。该次画展是Laurel首次与既是艺术史教授意大利共和国报的艺术评论家Lea Mattarella合作，后者也是这次画展的策划人。
In spring 2013, All The World Inside featured 17 large-scale murals in three rooms at the Grand Palazzo Italia (Berlin). Also curated by Mattarella, this impressive collection furthered the artist’s visual and visceral discourse on universal elements and existentialism.
2013年的春天，柏林的Grand Palazzo Italia在三个房间内展出了17幅巨型画作，其中一幅正是Laurel绘制的“All The World Inside”，它也是由Mattarella送去展出的。这幅令人印象深刻的画作充分展现了艺术家对宇宙元素与存在主义的视角与感觉。
Holloman’s interest in “the how of life” is demonstrated in pieces such as Inevitable Fault Line and The Necessity of Affection, which ask how are we connected together—and can we thrive without connection?
Laurel对“生命的意义”的兴趣表现在不可避免的错误与情感的必要性上，它们展现出人类是如何彼此相连的——以及如果没有彼此联系，人类又要如何茁壮成长？
In summer 2013, Holloman’s painting Swell was picked for the group show, Nell’Acqua Capisco, at the Venice Art Biennale where it was chosen for the official catalog.
2013年夏天，Laurel的画被收录了威尼斯双年展的官方目录里，并被选中参加“Nell’Acqua Capisco”的团体展出。
（Nell’Acqua Capisco 对于该次展出的网址：https://www.unirufa.it/en/evento/nellacqua-capisco/）
In July 2014, The Fifth Element was held in Paris at Galerie Joseph where it was met with a public increasingly drawn to the poetic emotion of Holloman’s work. The 28 pieces visually reflect the four major tangible elements—Earth, Air, Water, Fire—while the mysterious “fifth element” is represented in the emotion of each painting.
2014年7月，“The Fifth Element”在巴黎的Galerie Joseph展出，在那里，公众越来越被Laurel画作中的诗意所吸引。28幅作品里无一例外都有水火土风的元素，而神秘的第五元素，则是每幅画作所展现出来的情感。
This show was followed in October 2014 by an invitation to the International Contemporary Art Biennale in Buenos Aires. Holloman’s work entitled The Reach was awarded First Prize of the Biennale in the paintings category and won the Banco Ciudad Award for the Best Work in all categories.
2014年10月，布宜诺斯艾利斯举办了国际当代艺术双年展。Laurel的作品“The Reach”获得了绘画双年展一等奖，并获得了Banco Ciudad各类最佳作品奖。
（The Reach）
In November 2015 in London, the artist presented The Innocents, a stunningly intimate series featuring portraits of women and children. Showcasing the range of Holloman’s vision and talent, these works veer from the abstract and focus on the figurative immediacy of each subject to offer an emotional exploration of how life changes us as we age.
2015年11月，作家在伦敦举办了名为“The Innocents”（无辜者）的展览。这是一个以女性和儿童身体彩绘为表现方式的艺术展出，表达出了一种惊人的亲密关系。这次展出展现了Laurel的艺术视野与才华，从情感的抽象化转为直观的“年龄如何改变我们”的主题，不变的是她孜孜不倦的对情感的探索。
In summer 2016, the Jan van der Togt Museum in Amsterdam (Netherlands) invited the artist for a solo exhibition. In this show dealing with environmental issues, Holloman captures actual images of woods, plants, and animals in their damaged natural spaces.
2016年夏天，荷兰阿姆斯特兰的Jan van der Togt Museum博物馆邀请画家做一次个人画展。在这个展现自然环境为主题的画展中，Laurel捕捉到了破损自然界下的森林、植物还有动物的真实相貌。
Reminiscent of stained glass, Everglow is an installation of 12 back-panel LEDs that serve as a commentary on our current global warming crisis. Each piece is a combination of fire and ice, representing the inevitable melting we have witnessed in our farthest-reaching climates. As the artist declares, “We cannot deny at this moment we are dependent on nature for our survival. Put simply, science doesn’t lie.”
“Everglow”画展是在安装了12个LED嵌板的环境中展出，这宛如彩色玻璃一般的展出实则是对当前全球变暖的评述。每一片冰与火的结合，都代表着气候危机终端时所有人不可避免的融化。正如Laurel所说：“我们不能否认当前情况下我们依靠自然而活。简单来说，科学不会说谎。”
Also in this show, Painting in Reverse is an exploration in recycling and reusing materials. Originally created in 2014, the painting was never used and left unfinished in the studio. Instead of repainting the piece or throwing it away, it was de-framed and sanded over a four-month period to remove all the paint down to the primer. Each sanding session was photographed and certain sections were chosen to leave the remaining paint intact. The process was aimed at creating the look of old blue jeans. A pair you could never throw out.
同样在本次展览中，逆向绘画也是对回收材料的再一次探索。这幅画最初创作于2014年，因为一直没画完，所以它始终在画室内而没展出过。它没有采用覆盖式画法也没有被扔掉，而是花了四个月的时间去拆掉所有的框架并不断打磨掉已绘制的地方。每一次打磨过程都被拍摄下来，而有些已完成的绘制也被保留了下来。它的目的就像是用永远都不会丢掉的旧蓝色牛仔裤来创造新的样式。
In Fertile Ground, Holloman’s second London exhibition (Bankside Gallery, July 2017), the artist continued to explore her favorite themes of nature, including the world of flora—from the tight abstracted micro images of flowers to posed portraits of the different stages of blooming.
2017年7月，Laurel在伦敦Bankside Gallery开办了以“In Fertile Ground”（在肥沃的土地上）为主题的第二次展览。这次展出中，艺术家继续探索她最爱的自然主题，作品包括抽象的花朵与工笔绘制的盛开的花朵。
In Holloman’s words, “I have always been fascinated with flowers and the evolution that nature creates as they start to bloom, then open, and eventually deteriorate. The shapes, the turns, and the elegance of the petals, all interest me. Flowers have valleys and crevices close up, just like a landscape.”
用她本人的话来说：“我一直沉迷在大自然制造花骨朵到盛开再到凋落的进化过程中。花瓣雅致形状与之后的变化都深深吸引着我。花瓣的伸展，还有花瓣与花瓣之间的间隙，就像是一幅风景画。”
In April 2018, Color Forest at the Luciana Matalon Foundation in Milan revealed several works referencing the style of large murals Holloman created for her solo shows All The World Inside and The Fifth Element, but with dimensions more suited to the spaces of the foundation.
2018年4月，米兰Luciana Matalon基金会举办了名为“Color Forest”的个人画展。与“All The World Inside”和“The Fifth Element”画作的大尺寸不同，这次展出的作品尺幅更适用于一般空间。
The link between these works is not only the stylistic choice but also the theme: the “liminal space or threshold” that is the border between life and death. From this sentiment also comes a section entitled Memory Paintings, in which layers of paint are superimposed with patinas of gold and silver diluted in linseed oil, to which tiny amounts of pearlescent pigments and color are added. The result is iridescent works that—depending on the viewer’s point of view—represent “a sort of search of the imaginary that nevertheless fades too quickly.”
这些作品之间的联系不仅仅只是名字，也在于它们的主题：生与死之间的“边缘空间或门槛。”这些情绪全都来自于对画作的记忆。由亚麻籽油稀释过的金银光泽，加上少数珠光颜料与颜色，绘制出来的结果就是然后观赏者进入一种“不断探索想象力又不断消失”的情绪之中。
Returning to technical experimentation, Holloman created a series of paintings in which the color is mixed with a light resin, “a perfect combination of landscapes and to create light” as well as to create organic impressions, which reflect the artist’s curiosity for science.
而从技巧上来说，这一系列结合了色彩与亮光树脂的画作，完美地结合了风景也再度创造出了光芒。这种有机结合，反映出了画家对科学的好奇心。
Laurel Holloman earned her Bachelor of Arts at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, majoring in performance art and visual art. She continued her studies at UCLA and the British American Drama Academy in London alternating between theatre and visual art.
Laurel Holloman在北卡罗来纳大学教堂山分校主修艺术与视觉艺术，并获得了艺术学本科学位，之后她又在加州大学洛杉矶分校和伦敦的英美戏剧学院学习表演和视觉艺术。
（伦敦英美戏剧学院维基说明
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_American_Drama_Academy）
Before she decided in 2010 to become a full-time painter and make a mark in the art world, Holloman had a successful 20-year acting career.
在2010年决定成为全职画家之前，Laurel已经当了20年的成功演员。
Her performances include the acclaimed 15-year-old Mick Kelly in the off-Broadway play The Heart is a Lonely Hunter, a breakthrough role as a gay teen in Two Girls in Love, which played at the Sundance Film Festival, followed by several characters in independent films directed by Paul Thomas Anderson and Jean-Marc Vallée.
她的演艺生涯包括在著名非百老汇戏剧《心是孤独的猎手》扮演15岁的Mick Kelly，还有在圣丹尼斯电影节上放映的《双姝奇恋》，她在那里面突破性扮演一个年轻的女同性恋角色，以及参加由Paul Thomas Anderson和Jean-Marc Vallée执导的独立电影。
Holloman then turned to television with a recurring role in Angel and the lead in The L Word for which she won The Golden Satellite for the Best Actress in a Drama Series.
随后Laurel转投电视剧怀抱。她不仅在《夜行天使》中出演多集，更因为在《拉字至上》中担任主角，并因此获得了（第九届）金卫星奖电视剧最佳女主演。
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