Elodie Holmes (American, b. 1959) and Laird Hovland (American born in Korea, b. 1958). "Blue Matrix" art glass and iron sculpture, 2018. Signed and dated on bottom of larger blue glass form. A fabulous collaborative sculpture comprised of two beautiful blue biomorphic glass forms by Elodie Holmes held within a mesmerizing geometric iron stand by Laird Hovland. According to Elodie Holmes, "Laird used to be one of my tenants here at Baca Street Studios, and we wanted to do a collaboration. His work reflects a lot of crystalized matrices in metal, so he came up with a form that had more randomness to the matrix, much like how the molecular structure of glass is amorphous. Then I blew a large aqua blue bubble into it so it would bulge around the steel in an organic way. I added another blue piece at the bottom, giving the illusion of the large bubble dripping, or that the 2 bubbles had separated from the whole. I think we had named the piece Blue Matrix." A unique collaborative artwork by two highly revered contemporary artists. Size: 17" L x 16.5" W x 25.25" H (43.2 cm x 41.9 cm x 64.1 cm)

About the artists: "Elodie Holmes is an internationally acclaimed artist of the contemporary glass movement, with over 40 years of experience honing her craft. In 1959 she was born into a family of artists in Washington, D.C. Holmes began studying ceramics at a young age and later at Montgomery College in Rockville, Maryland. She went on to study at the California College of the Arts, under the instruction of Viola Frey. It was here that she met one of the founders of the studio glass art movement, Marvin Lipofsky, who would become her teacher, mentor and life-long friend.

As her initial passion for ceramics gave way to hot glass, Holmes moved to New Mexico in 1981 to co-manage a glass shop and to develop her body of work. Three years later, she became a teaching assistant to Marvin Lipofsky and Fritz Dreisbach at the Pilchuck Glass School in Seattle, Washington. After returning to New Mexico, she founded her own glass studio in 1986. Over the course of the following decade, Holmes showed her work in galleries and museums across the country and internationally. In 2000, she founded Baca Street Studios, an arts complex that housed her new gallery and studio. In the same year she co-founded the Baca Street Arts District, an arts district that is now one of the most vibrant in New Mexico. In 2004, Holmes co-founded a second glass studio in Santa Fe, Prairie Dog Glass, which hosts mentorship programs for local high school students and teaches developing artists. Her commitment to community education led Holmes to become a co-founding member of the Glass Alliance-New Mexico, a non-profit established in 2005. As an active member of this organization, she features international guest artists at her studio, Liquid Light Glass, through the Glass Alliance-New Mexico Maestro Program." (source: Elodie Holmes website)

"Hovland explores the realms of geometry, spirituality and science, and expresses those in bronze and steel, using mathematical biomimicry. A balance is achieved creating elegant interplay between positive and negative, technology and the natural world, with a sense of simultaneously interacting order and chaos. Hovland incorporates the Fibonnacci Sequence and the Golden Ratio, observed in such things as sunflowers and pine cones, the arrangement of branches on plant stems, and veins in leaves, the geometry of crystals, and the human body. The designs use this literal geometry and, with fractal repetition, become shapes that resonate with organic patterning, bringing the viewer into a deeper relationship and greater conscious and unconscious connection with the inherent patterns of the natural world." (source: Laird Hovland website)

Provenance: private Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA collection, acquired 1964 to mid-1990s

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Signed and dated on larger blue glass form. Intact and excellent.