HOLLY ADDI

Her paintings are often about contact with architecture and basic living elements. Energy (heat, light, water), space and landscape are examined in less obvious ways and sometimes developed in absurd ways. In a search for new methods to ‘read the city’, she focuses on the idea of ‘public space’ and more specifically on spaces where anyone can do anything at any given moment: the non-private space, the non-privately owned space, space that is economically uninteresting.

Her work urges us to renegotiate her philosophy on imperfection in our contemporary society. By applying abstraction, she creates beautiful intense personal moments masterfully created by means of rules and omissions, acceptance and refusal, luring the viewer round and round in circles until they see light.

Her work doesn’t reference recognizable form. The results are deconstructed to the extent that meaning is shifted and possible interpretation becomes multifaceted. Holly Addi currently lives and works in Salt Lake City, Utah.