Kathleen Holmes uses a variety of found objects to adorn cast-glass dress sculptures that pay homage to domestic life. Delicate pieces of embroidery, snippets of colorful crochet, pudding molds, buttons and rusted metal bits come together to describe the patterns of living surrounding a southern upbringing that included the traditional women’s-crafts of sewing, embroidery and crochet.
With careful deliberation, Holmes chooses each material she use for a very specific reason, as she describes below.
Cast glass represents the solidity of those domestic icons, and it’s translucency echoes the delicacy of women’s handwork, especially handmade laces. Rusted, pierced, and shaped metal refers to man-made aspects of society and provides the visual and conceptual counterpoint to the woman-made textiles, thereby creating a metaphorical duality. Found objects express our vernacular vocabulary.
Read the full artist statement here.
