Holland Cunningham is an American artist painting in her studio in Quogue and sharing her time between the East End and NYC for over 15 years. She is very much a part of the community in Quogue and is considered a darling of the Hamptons art scene. Holland’s work evokes the Impressionist en plein air movement with her painterly brushstrokes, and her attack of color is abstract and delicate. Voltz Clarke gallery will present a spring solo exhibition of recent works by Cunningham, featuring figurative paintings and video installation.

The artist “investigates the ever evolving narrative of collective experience. Each of her figurations are subject to perpetual change, by which the creation of a new story is formed from the lives of her viewers. She is interested in the intimacy of the fleeting nature of time and how these moments hold a universal sensibility”.  KDHamptons shares a sneak peek of the upcoming exhibit, below:

This series affirms her strong inclination towards balance and color, and the ephemeral nature of time. Through a dialectical play of transitory moments, Cunningham shares in the livelihood of the work through universal experience, to thereby create a new story. Inspired by the furtive strokes of Abstract Expressionism, Holland Cunningham’s oeuvre is characterized by classical compositions that speak to the artist’s own passion for plein air painting.

As an avid collector of discarded photography from which she draws her inspiration, Cunningham sees these not as images frozen in time, but as something that is still happening. She is a spectator as well as a protagonist and player in the scene or moment captured. The exhibition will run April – May 2016. For more information please contact info@voltzclarke.com