Jay Hollick

Stuff From Last Semester

2011-11-07T11:21:00.000-08:00

Images from last semester, exploring different ways I could make houses and home.

Experiments

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Mapping Home

2011-10-14T07:56:00.000-07:00

I've been working with mapping in mind, creating large scale drawings of my hometown. Remembering significant events, defining them, mapping my own personal history with the history of the town that I was born and raised in.

I'll continue to post work as I go along!

What I'm up to now...

2011-10-08T08:08:00.000-07:00

Final year of grad school, and I'm working through a series of drawings and little tableau's that relate to my hometown of Richland, WA. It's a work in progress, and I'll be posting all the different roads that it takes me on.

I have another blog, where I've been posting smaller drawings that poke fun at the absurdities of where I grew up. You can find this work here:

http://jayhollick.tumblr.com/

Artist and Curator Talk For Psychedelic Sublime

2011-04-29T10:07:00.000-07:00

There will be an Artist and Curator Talk and Reception for the show Psychedlic Sublime on Saturday, May 7th from 4 to 7 PM at the Harris House Gallery in New Smyrna Beach, FL.

Come by if you're in the area!

Psychedelic Sublime!

2011-04-25T18:34:00.000-07:00

My head's been going in a thousand different directions since January, but I've finally slowed down enough to update.

First, check out the exhibition Psychedelic Sublime at the Atlantic Center For the Arts. A collaborative show with Robb Fladry and Jordi Williams.

I'll be posting more in the way of video performances from this show very soon.

Epic.

KABOOOOOM!

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Photographs

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Check Out The Images!

2010-12-06T14:19:00.000-08:00

Check out some of the images of my work at the Miami's Independent Thinkers show that was up during Miami Basel this past weekend.

Here's the link:

Miami's Independent Thinkers!

2010-12-01T17:01:00.000-08:00

Everyone go to the Independent Thinkers show during Miami Art Basel!

Photographs from Nuke'Em High!

2010-10-27T07:33:00.000-07:00

Check out all the photo's of my show Nuke'Em High!

Nuke'Em High

Come and See The Show Here At USF!

2010-10-15T11:30:00.000-07:00

New Images of Work in Progress!

2010-10-05T20:48:00.000-07:00

Featured Artist on Contraposto Home Decor!

2010-09-30T12:42:00.000-07:00

I'm the featured Fall artist on artist Brian Goeltzenleuchter's Contraposto Home Decor website!
Check it out!

http://cphomedecor.com/

Work that I'm working on... and stuff...and things...and yeah

2010-09-12T08:04:00.001-07:00

Published in the St. Pete Times!

2010-08-26T11:59:00.000-07:00

Holla.

http://www.tampabay.com/features/visualarts/article1117360.ece

Check it out.

Images of Religious Figures on Everyday Objects...

2010-08-13T15:26:00.000-07:00

Day One: An Exhibition of 2nd and 3rd Year MFA Candidates

2010-08-09T05:28:00.001-07:00

Here is the work I have up in the Oliver for the Day One Exhibit

Check it out, opening reception will be August 13th from 7 to 9pm

Hope to see you there!

Sorry

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Ok, that link is totally mammoth, just copy and paste it into your web browser.

I'm Published!!!!!!!

2010-08-08T17:12:00.000-07:00

Juxtapoz Online, check it out:

http://www.juxtapoz.com/component/option,com_jevents/Itemid,11/catids,227/day,06/evid,171274/month,08/task,icalrepeat.detail/title,heroworship-a-graphic-tale-of-epic-proportions--c-emerson-fine-arts-st-petersburg-fl/uid,ba683286eccf4785a427a31ee57d0f70/year,2010/

Heroworship: A Graphic Tale of Epic Proportions

2010-08-08T16:59:00.000-07:00

If you are anywhere near the St. Petersburg area you should go to the C. Emerson Fine Arts Gallery and check out the show Heroworship: A Graphic Tale of Epic Proportions

Here is their website:

http://www.c-emersonfinearts.com/current_exibition.html

It will be up through September 18th!

Summer Drawings #6

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Summer Drawings #5

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Summer Drawings #4

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Summer Drawings #3

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Summer Drawings #2

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Summer Drawings #1

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Cow-Licking

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Self Portrait... Probably

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Cry-Baby

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Let Me Think of a Title

2010-03-05T07:08:00.000-08:00

Presenting...

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Excuse Me While I Vomit

2010-02-28T18:27:00.000-08:00

Care Bear Stare!

2010-02-26T19:38:00.000-08:00

Bicycles In Destruction

2009-12-27T12:12:00.000-08:00

Posters and... Yeah....

2009-11-21T16:36:00.000-08:00

Work that I've been doing since the semester here at USF. I really over-thought a lot of the work and some of it just withered and died on the vine. This stuff was kind of on the border.

Re-Worked Postcards

2009-10-24T12:48:00.000-07:00

A kind of before and after thing.

Two Thumbs Up

2009-10-10T15:25:00.000-07:00

Happy Fun Times! A poster creation for a poster show... that showed last week. But this guy is still rockin his way across my work, so you'll see more of him!

I was told to post

2009-09-27T16:13:00.000-07:00

So here I am posting!

Check out Robb Fladry's website. He's another Grad student here at University of South Florida, he makes great work involving video installation.

He also loves Tom Cruise, and drum sets...

The link:

http://www.robbfladry.com/

Side note: My favorite Tom Cruise movie, a tie between Days of Thunder and Mission Impossible.

MFA Group Show

2009-09-16T05:02:00.000-07:00

There is an MFA group show going on in the Centre Gallery up on USF's campus. It will be up for another couple of days so go check it out!

Postcards To My Mommy

2009-09-14T20:07:00.000-07:00

These are the fronts of two postcards I recently made that have gone out to my Mom. You see I recently moved across the country from Washington state to Florida and she worries. So I felt that need to send her something telling her I'm alright and at the same time have proof that I'm actually working.

So,

No need to worry Mom, I'm still painting.

The Arch and a Five Legged Cow

2009-08-21T06:29:00.000-07:00

Long Time, No Post

2009-08-17T19:20:00.001-07:00

I'm sure no one really noticed, but for the two people who religiously check this blog for updates and have sadly seen nothing new since June (and even that last post kinda sucked because it was a ceramic pig head, which anybody could have made). Don't worry! I've reached Florida, I have a work space and I am currently working on new stuff! So, until I start posting new work, I have some lovely holiday pictures for your enjoyment.

Ceramic Pig Doodle

2009-06-30T19:11:00.000-07:00

Ceramic Doodle

2009-06-27T13:52:00.000-07:00

I'm Sold

2009-06-14T18:55:00.000-07:00

I saw this ad and almost had an epileptic seizure of happiness... If that's possible.
Mostly because it just reeks of art history and Roman mythology with its reference to the She-Wolf suckling Romulus and Remus.

Plus it's got an attractive woman in place of the wolf.

Because sex sells.

While You're Surfing The World Wide Web...

2009-06-10T20:40:00.000-07:00

Go Here: http://jayandtravisart.blogspot.com/

New stuff.

Good Stuff.

Travis and Jay stuff.

Posting Postcards

2009-06-08T19:59:00.000-07:00

Everyone should check out Travis Helmkamps blog (here:http://travishelmkamp.blogspot.com/). He just posted some new work. Great stuff!

-Jay

What Was I Going For?

2009-06-03T20:42:00.000-07:00

I don't really know. When I started this I was thinking, "Wow, what an ugly frame! This is great! It'll take up way more attention than the actual work!"

But then I forgot about the art entirely and focused exclusively on the frame, which then became the work of art and what came out was this.

It's pretty ugly.

Repitition and Imitiation of the Past Provoke its Denunciation

2009-05-17T17:02:00.000-07:00

-Hans Kung, Art and the Question of Meaning

My Nipples Explode With The Light

2009-05-14T14:40:00.000-07:00

-Monty Python

554-**** For a Good Time Call Pringles

2009-05-13T21:53:00.000-07:00

-CBC Bathroom Stall

Progress Will Not Be His God

2009-05-12T20:47:00.000-07:00

-Hans Kung, Art and The Question of Meaning

To Have a Sasquatch Sighting, You Need to Have a Sasquatch and a Person to See It

2009-05-10T21:09:00.000-07:00

-History Channel

Content is Most Important in a Work

2009-05-09T18:31:00.000-07:00

-College Art Student

A Metaphor Means What it Lacks

2009-05-08T14:59:00.000-07:00

-Bathroom Stall Writing

Walk out of the Shadow of Disaster

2009-05-06T20:02:00.000-07:00

-NPR Segment

Incorporated Text

2009-05-06T10:14:00.000-07:00

I’m a fan of these daily drawings, and although I’m not sick anymore I think I’m going to continue making them. But I’ve decided to change it up a bit. Along with each drawing I will incorporate found text. This found text could be a quote I hear, an ad I see, whatever as long as it’s found during the same day that I create the drawing.
The drawing and the text may or may not be related, the only real connection between the two will be that I found/created both during the same day.

Enjoy!

-Jay

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Back to the daily drawings...

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Apocalyptic Pig

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Happy Easter!

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Daily Drawings

2009-04-10T14:40:00.000-07:00

For the past week or so I have been stuck at home sick. During this time I have been making and posting drawings on this blog that I lovingly refer to as sick drawings.

The sick drawings have a common size, medium and loose subject (they have all been made while I've been sick). They are nothing more then little blurbs the contents of which are determined by a range of stimuli from the way I'm feeling at the time to what I'm watching on television etc. etc.

You could say they are a form of documentation of being stuck at home, bored, sick and waiting to recuperate.

They are doodles. To this effect they have become time wasters/thought provokers for myself. They act as therapy to keep my mind busy (God, I need video games or something).

Hope you like them!

-Jay

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ACCEPTED!

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I'm giddy.

I'm giddy because I've been accepted into the University of South Florida's graduate for fine arts program!

Come fall I'll be updating this blog from Tampa.

Peace

If you're in Eugene

2009-04-03T18:00:00.000-07:00

Then you should check out my work that was accepted into the Pacific Northwest Art Annual! here is the info:

Pacific Northwest Artists
Adell McMillan Gallery | EMU Second Floor
April 18, 2009
5pm

Works by emerging and establish NW artists. Opening Reception at 5 pm.

This show highlights some of the best emerging and established artists of the Pacific Northwest. Sculpture, paintings, photography and all other media will be exhibited in this show.

In 1960, The Erb Memorial Union (EMU) at the University of Oregon established an art acquisition program to purchase works for the EMU's permanent art collection.
Over the past 40 years, the EMU has purchased approximately 40 pieces on behalf of the U of O
student body. We encourage you to submit your work and be a part of the 2009 PACIFIC NORTHWEST ART ANNUAL

Ugly

2009-04-03T17:45:00.000-07:00

Don't ask, I'm just gonna be posting stuff like this once a day. I'll explain later.

And... Now I have a Virus.

2009-03-18T22:13:00.000-07:00

Stupid cold.

I'll be posting stuff soon.

My Computer Lives!!!

2009-03-01T22:01:00.000-08:00

And for those who think I haven't been making art go check out the collaboration between Travis Helmkamp and I here: http://jayandtravisart.blogspot.com/. We're dealing with some important issues here so you had better check it out. Here is a preview of what you'll see:

It Just Piles On

2009-02-11T17:58:00.000-08:00

My computer has like 20 viruses on it.

I didn't even know I could get 20 viruses at one time.

This is lame.

Damn

2009-01-31T11:06:00.000-08:00

For all those who went to the CIC building expecting a performance and finding a locked door, I apologize.
Unforseen things happened and we were unable to do the performance.
We'll try it again somewhere else since today I will be taking down the entire installation from WSU Tri-Cities.

-Jay

Friday!!!

2009-01-26T21:54:00.000-08:00

This Friday at 5p.m, the final performance for the show Pecking Order Established will take place. I will give a brief talk about the work and its evolution to this final production and then I and another performer, Kriss Kennedy, will enter the sandbox for what will be the final fight in the cage.

Unlike the last two performances this will be open to the public and all are welcome to attend.

My intent is to incorporate the audience into the work. Much like a fight you might witness on a playground, the audience becomes an integral part of the event.

This is really a onetime happening. There will be no trial runs, or practices. The whole performance will last as long as the sandbox stands.

The performance will take place at WSU Tri-Cities in the Consolidated Information Center’s Art Gallery.

I hope to see you there!

The Art Center, CIC
2770 University Drive
Richland, WA

-Jay