Holmes at the Artery
MILFORD From May 8 through June 9, The ARTery Fine Art and Fine Craft Gallery in Milford features the work of Tom Holmes in an exhibition titled, “Still Breaking Stuff: ice, steel and stone in the consciousness of dreams.” The exhibit will feature steel and stone sculpture, and large photographs of Holmes’ winter ice works. An artist’s reception will be held Saturday, May 10 from 5 p.m. to 9 p.m., coinciding with Milford’s Art After Dark, a town wide arts walk. Tom Holmes is an artist, sculptor and musician living and working in the area. The undercurrents of natural decay, unity, duality, symmetry, space, time and dimension are at the heart of Tom’s creative energy. He works in stone, metal, wood, light, ice and water. Utilizing these elements in response to the natural environment, Tom crafts art events for the changing seasons. “I am drawn to working in the six elements of stone, metal, wood, light, ice and water. It gives me the ability to work intuitively. All possibilities can exist briefly before I impose parameters with regard to my emotional and intellectual contexts. Different seasons suggest different types and elements of my work. I love the crisp colds of zero or below for icing in the winter. The summer brings outdoor work and construction, waterfalls and stonework. Spring and fall are transition times that tie the year together with welding, sand blasting and finishing. There is no delineation between who I am and what I create. My work is my life and I thrive on long days. There is only the transcendence of the everyday. Cooking, friends, love become the sublime witness of doing. Process for me is the essence of my day.” This year brought another season of ice work at Tom’s sculpture park and finds Tom building for numerous shows and commissions and traveling to Europe and throughout the US to create and install his work. The post ice season began with a trip to Texas to install two steel and stone works at Gilberte Barrara’s Sculptor’s Dominion, a private sculpture park in San Antonio. In late April, Tom traveled to Paris to finish the monumental mobile, Chariot to the Sun for Ludap Sculpture Park in Paris, France. In addition to exhibiting three large scale outdoor works at Garrison Arts Center (GAC), the sculpture, Smoke Screen, at the inaugural Re.action exhibit in Dowell, Maryland for the new Annmarie Garden Museum’s arts building, a solo show at Beacon Artist Union (bau) in Beacon, N.Y, he is also composing an interactive musical event, a type of improvised street parade for the DigIt video and musical arts festival in Narrowsburg, N.Y. Examples of Tom Holmes’ work may be seen on his website, www.TomHolmes.com. “Still Breaking Stuff: ice, steel and stone in the consciousness of dreams....” will be on display May 8 to June 9. The Artery Gallery is located in the historic Forest Hall Building, at the traffic light in Milford. The gallery is open Thursday through Sunday, 11 a.m. to 6 p.m., and Monday, 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. For further information, call 570-409-1234 or visit www.arteryonline.com .