THE EDGE KNOWS; THE ROCK IS

January 16, 2025

I am pleased to announce the opening of our exhibit

THE EDGE KNOWS THE ROCK IS

At Hammerfriar Gallery on FEBRUARY 1st, 4 - 7

Featuring the artwork of

Brooke Holve & Catherine Richardson

Catherine and I have been collaborating now for several years traveling to Iceland and Ireland for residencies where we were both inspired by the raw and natural energies of the landscape. Our experiences at these residencies sparked many conversations throughout our collaboration. Conversations between us, between our work and about the actively changing landscapes around us. We observed and discussed the natural processes that shape a region, the unfinished nature of landscapes, and our unique practices of making, unmaking, remaking. Above all, we focused on process over immutable form. This exhibition reflects the essence of these ongoing conversations.

Mark your calendars and we hope to see you there!

Pulp: Paper & Book Arts Exhibition in Sebastopol

July 25, 2022

I will be showing an installation in the

Pulp: Paper & Book Arts exhibition

July 30th - September 4th

at the Sebastopol Center For the Arts

I hope to see you there at the reception this coming

Saturday, July 30th 2 - 4 pm.

Sebastopol Center For The Arts
282 High Street
Sebastopol, CA 95472
Gallery Hours: Thurs - Sunday 10 - 4pm

Extraction Exhibit at North Bay Letterpress Arts

October 19, 2021

Come to our reception

“Extraction; Art On The Edge Of The Abyss”

Sunday, November 7th, 11 - 3 pm

North Bay Letterpress Arts

925 D Gravenstein Hwy So Sebastopol

*masks required, safe distancing encouraged

EXHIBITION SCHEDULE

The shop will be open on Sundays during the duration of the exhibit at set times below:

Oct 24th 11 - 1, Oct 31st 2 - 5, Nov 7th 11 - 3, Nov 14th 11 - 3, Nov 21st 11 - 3, Nov 28th 1 - 5

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This installation is part of a larger movement of artists, “Art On The Edge Of The Abyss” a multimedia, multi-venue, cross-border art intervention that will investigate extractive industry in all of its forms (from mining and drilling to the reckless exploitation of water, soil, trees, marine life, and other natural resources) instigated by Peter Koch (Codex) and Edwin Dobb. The project will expose and interrogate extraction’s negative social and environmental consequences, from the damage done to people, especially indigenous and disenfranchised communities, to ravaged landscapes and poisoned water to climate change and its many troubling implications.

Featured here will be the installation & performance*

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by judi goldberg AND Brooke Holve

A collaboration and conversation

between two artists

with different approaches and aesthetic

working with what is.

* To be held on Sunday, November 7 at 1:30pm

MATERIALITY RE_MINED; Deep Within the Screen of a Cell Phone

June 8, 2021

Materiality Re_Mined; Deep Within the Screen of a Cell Phone

features an installation by two artists, Brooke Holve and Catherine Richardson.

The exhibit opens at the Seager Gray Gallery in MIll Valley on July 1 and will be on view till the end of July. The opening reception is on July 10th with a conversation by the artists at 3:00 followed by a reception from 4 - 6.

I have been collaborating with Catherine Richardson on this topic of extraction for over two years. The installation will look at the global impact of our much coveted cell phones on the environment. Digging deep into the components of a cell phone, the artists reveal connections between its “smartness,” the mining industries and humans’ relationship with the earth.

For more descriptive information on the installation, click “Press Release” below.

Press Release

A PREVIEW: Plexiglass & Mixed Media, Shelves of Objects that reflect the artists’ processes, Projections and Artist Book

This installation is part of a larger movement of artists, “Art On The Edge Of The Abyss” a multimedia, multi-venue, cross-border art intervention that will investigate extractive industry in all of its forms (from mining and drilling to the reckless exploitation of water, soil, trees, marine life, and other natural resources). The project will expose and interrogate extraction’s negative social and environmental consequences, from the damage done to people, especially indigenous and disenfranchised communities, to ravaged landscapes and poisoned water to climate change and its many troubling implications

.Below are pics of the catalog/exhibition guide, published by the codexfoundation.org compiled by Sam Pelts.

Materiality Re_Mined pgs 110 - 113 in the catalog. A digital “sketch” of our mobile phone project that seeks to expose the trail of minerals and elements mined to build the devices we depend on.

"When a Book Becomes An Artist Book"

September 21, 2016

I will be presenting this talk at the Iota Printshop

on Saturday, Sept 24th from 3pm to 5pm.

Details below:

http://northbayletterpressarts.org/event/brooke-holve-talk/

Cuts Make You. Review: "Cuts Like A Knife" by Gabrielle Gopinath

July 1, 2016

A selection of artwork from Cuts Make You. reviewed in "Cuts Like A Knife". Brooke Holve 09_resize

http://www.northcoastjournal.com/humboldt/cuts-like-a-knife/Content?oid=3836956

Cuts Make You. at the Morris Graves Museum

June 9, 2016

An eventful reception last weekend at the Morris Graves Art Museum in Eureka. Following are a few views from the evening. The exhibit will be up through July 3, 2016.

My statement read:

"Artist, Brooke Holve contemplates the poetics of seeing in Cuts Make You., an exhibition of mixed media constructions, installations and an artist book. Her work reflects an exploration of 'cutting' as process and form as she cuts to see and cuts to make. She is interested in how to apply process to a material and arrive to a form that refers back to its making. The work is informed by the changing role of the book as the world moves to primarily digital delivery systems. Discarded book remnants are the dominant material of this work."

Cuts Make You. at the Morris Graves Museum

April 20, 2016

I am honored to present a solo exhibition of my work,

Cuts Make You.

at the Morris Graves Museum in Eureka, California.

It will feature installations, constructions and artist books

with a soundscape by musician, Paul Lamb.

Please join me at the opening reception on

June 4, 6-9 pm

During First Saturday Night Arts Alive

in the Anderson Gallery

The exhibit runs from

May 28th through to July 3, 2016.

Morris Graves Museum of Art

636 F Street, Eureka, CA 95501

Gallery Hours: Wed - Sun, Noon - 5 pm

For more information: (707) 442-0278

www.humboldtarts.org

"A Bed of Verbs" debuts at Codex V

January 6, 2015

'Bed' is a charged word; its root, bhedh, means to dig.

A Bed of Verbs, 2014. A collaboration with artist, Elizabeth Sher. To be shown for its first time at Codex V at the Craneway Pavillion in Richmond, February 8th - 12th.

A Bed of Verbs, 2014. Artist Book with Clamshell: digital prints on Moab Entrada 190 and metal coated papers. 5.25 x 9.75 x 1 inches (closed clamshell box)

I travelled to Iceland with artist, Elizabeth Sher for an artist residency during the summer of 2012. We were awed by what we saw; the geologic wonders and phantasmal forms gave us a glimpse of what the earth might have been like in its beginnings. Iceland was a "land of the verb" with underground rumblings randomly spewing out steam, lava and rocks through pockets in the earth.

A land of forces not seen with verbs to describe it: bhedh, burns, chills, churns, coils, cracks, crusts, cuts, erupts, oozes, pads, posts, roots, scalds, scrape, spews, sprays, steams

PRESENCE at C-14 Contemporary Arts

May 3, 2014

PRESENCE

at the Barlow, a new gallery

C-14 Contemporary Arts

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I am pleased to be one of the nine featured artists. We are:

Teresa Camozzi, Martha Channer, DebraLea Comstock, Dave Gordon,

Brooke Holve, Colin Lambert, Craig Mitchell, Fred Vedder, and Martha Wade

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The exhibit, curated by Satri Pencak, runs from May 1st through June 15th.

There will be an opening reception on Saturday, May 10th from 5 - 8pm.

I hope that you will be able to join us, meet the artists and hear about what we will be doing.