NEWS
Sea Forest Series, cyanotype on silk with embroidery | Photo by Matt Garamy
JULY 1 – SEPTEMBER 30, 2020
Art/Act: Local — Wild Places
David Brower Center
2150 Allston Way
Berkeley, CA
Ann’s installation of endangered sea kelp on silk is featured along with the work of three other amazing artists in Art/Act: Local — Wild Places, a group exhibition at the David Brower Center that celebrates the importance of our connection to wild places. The gallery is now open for private viewings by appointment only, Monday – Friday from 9:00am – 5:00pm. Email contact@browercenter.org to schedule. The entire exhibit is also available to view online.
Flight diptych installation
SUMMER – FALL 2020
Bird, Nest, Nature
Bedford Gallery
Walnut Creek, CA
This exhibition aims to heighten our sense of wonder and connectivity to the natural world while bringing awareness to the exquisite beauty of birds. While the gallery remains closed to the public, the entire exhibit is now available to view online, including Ann’s diptych titled Flight.
Taking Flight (Detail)
cyanotype, pastel, and gouache on paper, 72 x 38 in, 2014
REVIEW
Berkeleyside
“In Art/Act: Local – Wild Places, an online art show curated by the David Brower Center, four Bay Area artists celebrate nature in order to encourage its preservation…You’ll feel a connection to the landscape and natural, living things as you view this show.”
– Minhae Shim Roth, July 31, 2020
Lost Bouquet 1,
cyanotype and embroidery on paper, 14 x 11 in., 2015
ONGOING EXHIBITION
Pierogi Gallery Flat Files
Pierogi Gallery
155 Suffolk Street
New York, NY
The Pierogi Gallery Flat Files are well known in New York’s contemporary art scene as a place where curators, collectors, art dealers, and the general public can put on white gloves to handle and view artists’ works up close. Ann’s work can be seen onsite at the gallery’s Lower East Side location, as well as online in their digital gallery.
SEPTEMBER 10, 2020
“Wild Places” Virtual Artist Panel
Hosted by the David Brower Center, this event focused on our connection to wild places. Ann spoke with fellow artists behind the group exhibition Art/Act: Local — Wild Places, as well as community organizers working to make wild places more accessible: YES Nature to Neighborhoods and Latino Outdoors.
Ann embroidering part of her Sea Forest Series
JULY 29, 2020
Artist at Work Livestream
David Brower Center
2150 Allston Way
Berkeley, CA
Ann shared her meditative and transformative art-making process via Instagram livestream from the David Brower Center on Wednesday July 29th. Working in the front gallery windows, Ann embroidered additions to her large Sea Forest silk pieces, inviting viewers to reflect on our urge to create in spite of it all.
Using cyanotype on a large-scale 18 foot artwork for the David Brower Center exhibition.
SUMMER 2020
Cyanotype Workshop
David Brower Center
2150 Allston Way
Berkeley, CA
This workshop has been cancelled due to COVID precautions.
2018 – 2019
Civic Arts Grant Recipient
City of Berkeley, CA
The City of Berkeley awarded Ann a Civic Arts Grant in support of further exploration and development of new work in her ongoing Migration, Earth, Sky Water, and Cosmologies series.
Cosmology 6 (Mardi Gras)
cyanotype, ink, duralar, machine stitching on paper, 20 x 12 in., 2015
NOVEMBER 16 – DECEMBER 22, 2019
Winter Solstice Exhibition
Marin Museum of Contemporary Art
Novato, CA
Ann received a Juror Award for her piece Cosmology 6 (Mardi Gras) in the Marin MOCA group exhibition Winter Solstice; Juried by Andrea Schwartz of the Andrea Schwartz Gallery in San Francisco.
Drawing upon influences from her childhood spent near New Orleans, Ann printed Mardi Gras beads and further developed the work with ink, duralar, and machine stitching.
View more artwork from the Cosmologies series here.
Kelp Forest 1
cyanotype on paper, ink, 72 x 38 in., 2018
OCTOBER 5 – 27, 2019
33rd Annual Emeryville Celebration of the Arts
The Pickleworks Building
Emeryville, CA
This annual juried exhibition provides an opportunity for the wider community to view work by the high concentration of artists in the small, vibrant arts community of Emeryville, CA.
Ann’s selected artwork, Kelp Forest 1, focuses on the delicate interconnection between humans and our environment. The image was created using cyanotype on paper, printed with a combination of the artist’s profile and bull kelp sourced from Buckhorn Cove, Mendocino County.
View more artwork from the Earth, Sky, Water series here.
Ocean Mist
cyanotype and cold wax on paper on panel, 24 x 18 in. each, 2019
AUGUST 4 – SEPTEMBER 25, 2019
Ocean Passage
Berkeley Yacht Club
Berkeley, CA
In this waterfront venue overlooking the Golden Gate, Ann’s work conveyed the power and mystery of the ocean through artwork that had been made at the edge of California beaches.
View more artwork from the Earth, Sky, Water series here.
SUMMER 2019
Artist in Residence
Kala Art Institute
Berkeley, CA
Ann recently participated in Kala’s Artist in Residence program, where the supportive environment and space to experiment provided an opportunity to explore the interface between analog printmaking methods and new media.
Artist talk with TaVee McAllister Lee (left), Ann Holsberry (right)
MAY 30 – JUNE 29, 2019
TRACES: Ann Holsberry & TaVee McAllister Lee
Gearbox Gallery
Oakland, CA
From Ann’s talk, Explorer’s Journey:
“I see myself on an explorer’s journey as I discover new ways of seeing and recording the natural world by using materials and elements endemic to a particular place and time. These unique pieces created in various outdoor locations become records of the passage of time and the fragility of natural ecosystems.”
MAY 1 – AUGUST 31, 2019
From Fertile Ground – Art and Innovation
Public Art Commission
City of Emeryville, CA
The City of Emeryville displayed posters of Ann’s artwork on bus shelters throughout the city. The theme From Fertile Ground – Art and Innovation included local flora and fauna, regional ecology, neighboring shorelines, and the transformative energy embodied by the “Rotten City Arts District” in Emeryville, where Ann’s studio is located.
Incoming Tide
cyanotype on paper, 88 x 30 in., 2018
FEBRUARY 16 – MARCH 23, 2019
Something Blue
Gray Loft Gallery
Oakland, CA
This annual juried photography exhibit included Ann’s piece Incoming Tide, which was selected for the dynamic use of cyanotype, an alternative photographic process. Using kelp gathered on Northern California beaches in the exposure, Ann’s work follows in the tradition of nineteenth century botanist and photographer Anna Atkins, who created cyanotypes of British algae in the 1840s.