COVID-19 PAGES Featured Artist – ROBIN HOLDER
robin holder Is A Contemporary Artist Motivated By The Complexities Of Racial Inequity, Social Justice And Identity. Her research-based, mixed technique works are saturated with cultural references that reveal the conflicts of our human experience.
From: An Artist’s View of the Pandemic and Social Inequity by Carolyn Edlund
“For nearly 25 years, robin holder has created art that addresses the history of diversity and the complex and pervasive issues of living in one of the most diverse nations on earth. The daughter of an African American Christian father and a white Russian American Jewish mother, the artist often draws directly from her personal experience.
“The thrust of her work is to offer an unflinching gaze into the lives and realities of immigrant populations and people of color in the U.S. ‘Everyone can viscerally engage with my images. I’m not asking people to agree with it, but to consider something unfamiliar, without fear,’ she said.
robin’s contribution to COVID-19 PAGES is one of the pieces in her Covid 19 First Responders series. It is called “We’re in It Together: Xray Technician.” Here is her comment about this series:
“What we need to keep in the forefront of our thinking is that people who are identified as first responders are those necessary to keep society functioning. Yet most of these people have very low salaries. Unless they are union employees, they usually have no health benefits. We depend on janitors to keep spaces clean. We depend on nurses and healthcare workers to stay alive, and we depend on supermarket cashiers and stockers, and on UPS drivers. Many of those are brown and black-skinned people.”
To visit the exhibition, click here: https://wellsinternationalfoundation.org/covid-19-pages-exhibit/To visit COVID-19 PAGES: The Influence & Inspiration of Women, click on the following link: https://wellsinternationalfoundation.org/covid-19-pages-exhibit/
