Sheafer + King Modern to Exhibit the Work of New York Artist, Juliet Holland

Sheafer + King Modern is pleased to announce the upcoming display and sale of 21 works from the estate of New York mixed media artist Juliet Holland at 1103B E. 52nd St. in Indianapolis, IN beginning January 20th, 2022.  The gallery is open Thursday through Saturday from 11:00 am until 6:00 pm and Sundays from noon to 5:00 pm.

Works on display include selections from the Asoko series; striking mixed media compositions on wood. Others, from Nami, are gentler paintings on canvas with unconventional substrates. All of the works speak to Holland’s ability to construct beauty, even when it felt difficult to find.

Juliet Holland — Juliet Holland (1937-2017) began her art practice in the 1960s. Holland’s adult life was spent between two chosen homes; an apartment at Bleeker and Broadway in New York City and a tiny fisherman’s cottage in Saugatuck Shores, Connecticut. Her technique mirrors her dual landscapes and incorporates rich layers of sand, paints, clay, powders, metallics, and natural elements, which were built up, then scratched and scraped back down, creating layers — evoking time, cycles.

Holland showed in over one hundred one-person and group exhibitions between 1981 and 2018. Her work is held in museums such as the San Antonio Museum of Modern Art, Reading Public Museum, Sakai City Municipal Collection (Japan), as well as a number of private and corporate collections including IBM, Pepsico, Citibank, and AT&T.

Holland was a co-founder of Art Bridge, a program that established an artist exchange between Japan and the United States for twelve years. In addition to being an artist and businesswoman, she worked as a curator of several exhibitions and was on the board of directors of Lamia Ink!, a non-profit organization dedicated to the arts.

In describing her work, Holland wrote, “Building literally from dust and earth, sand and clay… my work focuses on the process of transformation – from disintegration and decay to a new form of beauty. The surface reveals an archaeological history of the treatment it has received: rain and earthquake, ancient graffiti, hints of fragmented calligraphy like scars on the skin and soul. Erosion and layering evoking passing time and the continuum of change in nature’s infinite progression.

An aspect that has always intrigued me is the mystery that lies within and behind—piercing of layers leading to unexpected discoveries beneath. This combination of deterioration and inflicted markings, construction and destruction, becomes a means of stating both the quality and unity of all things. No endings — the process of becoming.”

Sheafer + King Modern (sheaferking.com) — Partners Andrea Sheafer and Andrew King opened their Indianapolis gallery in September 2020 after selling 20th century works of art online for many years. Their collection features paintings, sculpture, works on paper, furniture, design objects, ceramics and art glass dating primarily from the 1950s-1980s.