painter/sculptor
FRANK HOLDER
Frank Holder is a metal sculptor, painter, and dance artist living and working in Greensboro, NC. He is versatile in a variety of sculpting and painting media, including aluminum, steel, copper, brass, bronze, foam, and acrylics. Holder studied dance at the University of Arkansas, Stevens College in Columbia Missouri, and at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. He founded the Greensboro-based Frank Holder Dance Company in 1973, and served as its artistic director and choreographer for 12 years. Themes of movement, nature, botany, and beauty are guiding influences behind his artwork.
Textural Form no 2
Burning Ring of Golden Fire
Golden
Desert
Storm
Colony VI
As an artist,
We are surrounded by a world in motion, beginning with the inner microscopic life of all living things.
In my early study of botany, I was especially interested visually in the micro cellular flow of all plant life. Later, the study of dance became my vocation. I was a dancer and a choreographer, studying bodies in motion.
Later, as a sculptor in metal I was able to capture the visual and kinetic movement of the body, as well as in abstract forms which implied movement in space.
This varied background brought me to where I am currently as an artist. After experimenting with a number of different media, I am currently using acrylic paint suspended in a glazing medium which lends itself to fluidity. Similar to the painter Morris Louis, I use gravity as a means to move the paint on the canvas. Other of my paintings are produced by using acrylic paint mixed into a glaze
medium. Layers on layers of colored glazes are used to achieve an effect of softness and transparent color, to the painting. My paintings show the viewer an organic, fluid & abstract world.
Evolving wings
Streaming into Dark Waters
Fluid Landscape
Clouds of Kelp
