Tom Holmes is part of Exposed 2011. He lives in Greeley, Pennsylvania.
Star Burst reaches back to one of my earliest sculptures. I acquired a bunch of long thin scrap when I was in my mid-twenties and just beginning to get serious about creating art. My degree is in music. The first Star I built measured about 30” in diameter. These large Star Bursts are the progression of wanting to test the limits of the wood materials that can be hand built without help. Each one comes out a little differently and I learn something about the structure every time I build one. The abstractions of these forms, which I have juxtaposed with the Star Bursts, provide a linear progression from small Stars, to large Bursts to these asymmetrical constructions.
I am a sculptor who works in stone, metal, wood, light, ice and water. I work in relation to the seasons, dependent on the weather. Since so much of my work takes place outside – from construction to welding, finishing and installing – I follow the weather and use it as a guide. Temperatures well below zero informed my first ice work. I developed many techniques based on the physics of freezing and thawing. My degree is from the Crane School of Music in New York, and as a result music informs many of my sound sculptures. Movement defines many of my steel and stone pieces, as the wind becomes integral to my understanding of materials.
ABOUT EXPOSED
For the past twenty years, the Helen Day Art Center has hosted an outdoor public art and sculpture exhibition called Exposed in Stowe, Vermont. Exposed hosts sculptures, site-specific installations, and participatory work from twenty-three national and international artists. the 2011 edition offers a series of Thursday night events by 12 video artists, writers, performers, and musicians accompany the exhibit. This exhibition and series of events is accompanied by cell phone audio tours, QR codes, walking tour maps, walkabouts, and a catalogue of the exhibit published by Kasini House Books. The exhibition will take place July 8th to October 8th, 2011.