2013 Linda Warren Gallery, Chicago, IL
2012 Aisho Miura Arts, Tokyo, Japan
2011
Hollis Brown Thornton 2007-2011, if ART Gallery, Columbia, SC
2009
Hollis Brown Thornton: The Geography of Space, Sumter County Gallery of Art, Sumter, SC
2008
The Earth on the Back of the Giant Turtle, preview exhibition, if ART Gallery, Columbia, SC
The Earth on the Back of the Giant Turtle, Linda Warren Gallery, Chicago, IL
2007
Great Sea Creatures & the Earth on the Back of the Giant Turtle , if ART Gallery, Columbia, SC
2006 Mary
Pauline Gallery, Augusta, GA
2005
Great
Sea Creatures & Punica Granatum, City Art, Columbia, SC
Great
Sea Creatures & Punica Granatum, Jackson Gallery & Sculpture
Garden, Aiken, SC
2004
The
Great Fish & Every Kind of Plant that Bears Seed, Jackson
Gallery & Sculpture
Garden, Aiken, SC
2002 Verdir,
Chicago, IL
2001 80808
Vista Studios, Columbia, SC
Aiken Center
for the Arts, Aiken, SC
2000 Gallery
701, Columbia, SC
2012
Abstract Art in South Carolina: 1949-2011, South Carolina State Museum, Columbia, SC
2011
GROUP SHOW, Aisho Miura Arts, Tokyo, Japan
2010
2 Year Anniversary Exhibition, POVevolving Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
ULTRA003 Emerging Directors' Art Fair, Tokyo, Japan
2009
Salon III: The Print Exhibition, if ART Gallery, Columbia, SC
PHOTO-BASED, Barbara Archer Gallery, Atlanta, GA
Gallery Artists Group Show, Linda Warren Gallery (Project Space), Chicago, IL
100 Under 1000, if ART Gallery, Columbia, SC
2008
The Inventory, if ART Gallery, Columbia, SC
20th Anniversary Juried Art Exhibition, South Carolina State Museum, Columbia, SC
Cultural Council’s Founders’ Dinner, The Summit Club, Columbia, SC
Internationales Künstlersymposium 10, Volksbank, Kaiserslautern, Germany
The Salon I & II, if ART Gallery, Columbia, SC
2007 Art Miami, Miami, FL
The Warming Landscape, www.thebruise.com
Project Space, Linda Warren Gallery (Project Space), Chicago, IL
Kleinformat / Small Format, The Columbia - Kaiserslautern Exchange, if ART Gallery, Columbia, SC
A Holiday Exhibition, Mary Pauline Gallery, Augusta, GA
2006
South
Carolina Birds: A Fine Arts Exhibition, The City Gallery at Waterfront
Park, Charleston, SC
Take
The Field, Winfield Studio & Wilmington Street
Gallery, Winfield, KS
South
Carolina Birds: A Fine Arts Exhibition, Pickens County Museum
of Art & History, Pickens, SC
A
Holiday Exhibition,
Mary Pauline Gallery, Augusta, GA
2004
Aberration/Pollination, Linda Warren Gallery,
Chicago, IL
South
Carolina Birds: A Fine Arts Exhibition, Sumter Gallery of Art, Sumter,
SC
South
Carolina Birds: A Fine Arts Exhibition, Franklin G. Burroughs - Simon
B. Chapin Art Museum, Myrtle Beach, SC
2003
The
Felt Moment, Columbia Museum of Art, Columbia, SC
2001
Procession,
Fresh Pastabilities, Columbia, SC
Phobia
2001,
Thirteenth Floor Gallery,
Chicago, IL
2000
The
Muse, Gallery 701, Columbia, SC
Aritsta
Vista 2000, Columbia,
SC
1999
USC
Student Art Show, McKissick Museum, Columbia, SC
Foundation, Gallery
701, Columbia, SC
| Hollis Brown Thornton (USA,1976) Dealing with themes of memory and perception, Thornton uses modern cultural artifacts ranging from family photos to pop culture imagery in order to illustrate the modern relevance of these things from the past. In the acrylic paintings, pigment transfers, and marker drawings, the use of erase face, limbo lines, outdated media, and wallpaper patterns all play key roles in uniting the fleeting present to a lingering past. Thornton currently works out of his warehouse studio and owns the contemporary clothing boutique Threads, with his wife, in Aiken, SC. |
"The Earth on the Back of the Giant Turtle" is a Native American myth that has been a central theme behind the artwork of Hollis Brown Thornton. This myth served as an explanation of how Earth was created and how humankind came to its present form. Although the perception of the world being carried on the back of a giant turtle seems entirely illogical in today's context, the myth still exists in our modern repertoire. The main drive of HBT's work is an exploration into the convergence of past ideas and modern sensibilities.
"The story of the earth on the back of the giant turtle is another step in the continuously developing understanding of an ever-changing reality through science and experience...
"Who are we? Where do we come from? What happens when we and the people we know die? We live in a constant state of flux and there is a prevailing sense of uncertainty about what happens next.
"The VHS, like the turtle story, represent outdated things that continue to exist, bound to us by their initial value, and now wound up in habit, nostalgia, or loyalty."
-Hollis Brown Thornton
HBT uses modern cultural artifacts ranging from family photos to pop culture imagery in order to illustrate the modern relevance of these ideas from the past. In the acrylic paintings, pigment transfers, and marker drawings, the use of erasure and pixelation attempt to unite the fleeting present to a lingering past.
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Aisho Miura Arts, Tokyo, Japan
if
ART Gallery, Columbia, SC
Linda Warren Gallery, Chicago, IL
Alpha - Urban Outfitters, 2011
Small Black Poster - Knitting Factory, 2011
Lucky Soul - Up in Flames - Ruffa Lane, 2010
Goldmund - Famous Places - Western Vinyl, 2010
Lucky Soul - A Coming of Age - Ruffa Lane, 2010
Helios - Live at the Triple Door - Unseen Records, 2010
Lucky Soul - White Russian Doll - Ruffa Lane, 2010
Vice Magazine - The Fiction Issue, December 2009
Primary 1 - Mess Detective - Grow Up Records, 2009
Redpoint - Sense of Summer - HIdden Music, 2009
Redpoint - Nostalgia For Now - Hidden Music, 2008
Our Sleepless Forest - Our Sleepless Forest - Resonant Records, 2008
The Narwhal Invasion - If We Were Constellations - Corps-Morts Records & Ethedrone Muzac, 2007
Thomas Denver Jonsson - The Lake Acts Like An Ocean - Kite Recordings, 2007
Goldmund - Corduroy Road - Type Records, 2005
Pigment Transfer Process- A step by step guide of the pigment transfer process with photos.
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