FRED HOLLE

Visual Artist: painter, printmaker

Contact Info:

1870 Art Center, Studio 5
Belmont, CA 94002
(650) 346-6696

fred@batnet.com

bensco.com


Artist Statement

“My primary vehicle of expression over the years has been an on-going painting series titled ”GNOMESGAME.” Its guiding CONCEPT relates to the revelation and personification of universal human attitudes ranging from satire to fantasy.”

Professional Activities:

2-The Mime, freehand pigment paint, 15x12

The Mime, freehand pigment paint, 15×12

* Professor emeritus, Art Department, Canada College

* Contributor of demonstration drawings and consultant on “Serious Drawing – A Basic Manual” by
Casey FitzSimons, Prentis-Hall Inc.: 1989

* “Classical Life Drawing,” five video instruction tapes for the Artist-in-Residence Series, HW Productions, Burlingame, CA: 1988

COMPETITIVE EXHIBITIONS, 2005 to 2015 (PARTIAL LIST)

IN THE ABSTRACT: MidCentury San Diego Painting & Sculpture, Oceanside Museum of Art, Oceanside, CA:                                 August 15- November 1, 2015
100 ARTISTS -1OO YEARS The San Diego  Museum of Art Artists Guild: 1915-2015 at
The Oceanside Museum of Art, Oceanside, CA: April18-July 26, 2015
PUSH AND PULL, The Los Angeles Printmaking Society’s Membership Exhibition, The
City of Brea Art Gallery, Brea, CA: 2014
The Arts Visalia North American Print and Drawing Exhibition, Visalia, CA: 2014
LEFT COAST ANNUAL Juried Exhibition, Sanchez Art Center, Pacifica, CA: 2014
SPRING AWAKENING, Pacific Art League, Palo Alto, CA: 2014 (First Award)
29th Annual “MADE IN CALIFORNIA” Juried Show”, The city of Brea, CA Fine Arts
Gallery: 2014
“ABSTRACTIONS”, Pacific Art League, Palo Alto, CA: 2014
“The art of NO”, Diablo Valley College Art Gallery, Pleasant Hill, CA: 2013
“Figures and Faces”, Pacific Art League, Palo Alto, CA, 2013 (2nd award winner)
52nd International Exhibition, San Diego Art Institute, San Diego, CA: 2013
28th Annual “Made in California Juried Show”, The city of Brea, CA Fine Arts Gallery: 2013
Delta National Small Print Exhibition, Bradbury Gallery, Arkansas State University, Jonesboro, Arkansas: 2012 (Juror’s Merit Award) Juror: Roberta Waddell, Curator Emerita, The New York Public Library, New York, NY
Stones Throw LAPS Exchange Show, Robert Blackburn Print Workshop, New York, NY: 2011
The 2011 LAPS Membership Exhibition, City of Brea Art Gallery, Brea, CA
Art and Labor, Expressions Gallery, Berkeley, CA: 2010
Delta National Small Print Exhibition, Bradbury Gallery, Arkansas State University, Jonesboro, Arkansas: 2009-1010 Juror: David W. Kiehl, Chief Curator, Whitney Museum of Art, New York, NY
2009 Statewide Drawing & Print Competition and Exhibition, Triton Museum of Art, Santa Clara, CA: 2009-2010
Bay Area Annual Juried Exhibition, Sanchez Art Center, Pacifica, CA: 2009 Juror: JoAnne Northrup, Chief Curator of the San Jose Museum of Art
Los Angeles Printmaking Society, 20th National Exhibition, Los Angeles Municipal Gallery, Los Angeles, CA: 2009 Juror: Peter Frank, Senior Curator, Riverside Museum, Riverside, CA
Ink & Clay 35, Kellogg University Art Gallery, California State Polytechnic University,
Pomona, CA 2009
Boston Printmakers, North American Biennial, 808 Gallery, Boston University, Boston, MA: 2009
Los Angeles Printmaking Society, “Identity”, Craft and Folk Art Museum, Los Angeles, CA: 2008-09
Los Angeles Printmaking Society, “Stones Throw”. LA Artcore Brewery Annex, Los
Angeles, CA: 2008
Ink & Clay 34, Kellogg University Art Gallery, California State Polytechnic University,
Pomona, CA 2008
Ink & Clay 33, Kellogg University Art Gallery, California State Polytechnic University,
Pomona, CA 2007

Los Angeles Printmaking Society Exchange Exhibition, Belfast, Ireland: 2006
Brand Galleries National, “Conflict”, Glendale, CA: 2006