Katie Holten: Drawn to the Edge (The Great Hall Project)
June 15th - September 9th, 2012
For her Great Hall exhibition called “Drawn to the Edge” Holten created a series of large-scale drawings addressing her interest in the ever-evolving boundaries or “edges” between land and water. Having spent six weeks in New Orleans as part of A Studio in The Woods residency in early 2012, Holten’s drawings reflect her research on the Mississippi River and the wetlands along the southern coast of Louisiana. Tracing shifting paths of sediment, Holten’s drawings outline paths of water in a map-like fashion, while at the same time acknowledging the shifting nature of these maps due to climate change and land management decisions. The drawings are suspended from the ceiling of the Great Hall, manifesting Holten’s desire to translate two-dimensional drawings into a kind of three-dimensional sculpture. Holten is working with authors Rebecca Snedeker and Rebecca Solnit on drawings for their atlas project titled Unfathomable City: A New Orleans Atlas. Holten looks to Solnit and Snedeker’s concept that “Places are leaky containers…Something is always coming from elsewhere, whether it’s wind, water, immigrants, trade goods, or ideas… Every place deserves an atlas.”
The Great Hall Project by Katie Holten will be on view at NOMA through September 9, 2012.
Exhibit 4 (Katie Holten: Drawn to the Edge)
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Exhibit 5 (Katie Holten: Drawn to the Edge)
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Exhibit 3 (Katie Holten: Drawn to the Edge)
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Exhibit 2 (Katie Holten: Drawn to the Edge)
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Exhibit 1 (Katie Holten: Drawn to the Edge)
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By Steven Forster for the Times-Picayune Inside the New Orleans Museum of Art, hundreds celebrated the opening of “Drawn to the Edge,” which features several large canvases by artist Katie Holten suspended from the Great Hall ceiling and depicting Louisiana’s waterways and coastline. Musician Sarah Quintana serenaded the crowd, and visitors also were treated to… Read More
Written by Doug McCash for the Times-Picayune. Internationally known artist Katie Holten is attempting to obstruct the New Orleans Museum of Art atrium with a set of huge drawings suspended from the ceiling like fabric walls. The biggest of the drawings, Holten said, is a 12-by-36 foot behemoth that will act like a barrier, confronting… Read More
Large-Scale, Site-Specific Installation Explores the Ever-Changing Natural Environment of the City of New Orleans Katie Holten: Drawn to the Edge On View June 15- September 9, 2012 New Orleans, LA – For the second annual installment of the Great Hall Project series at the New Orleans Museum of Art, artist Katie Holten will map the… Read More
As told to Allese Thomson Baker for Artforum. Katie Holten is an Irish-born, New York-based multimedia artist whose work explores the relationship between human beings and the natural environment. She represented Ireland at the 2003 Venice Biennale and in 2009 created Tree Museum, a public artwork celebrating the centennial of the Grand Concourse in the… Read More
By Robert Cicetti for Hyperallergic. The New Orleans Museum of Art hosted a luncheon today for members of arts community that amounted to something much more than the usual meet and greet. Instead of delivering a regurgitated press release, the dialogue that unfolded about New Orleans and the transformative power of art meandered, taking anecdotal… Read More