Juliet Holland 1990 Signed “Magma Sand Script IV” Mixed Media Painting and Collage on Paper

A 1990 mixed media painting and collage on paper titled, Magma Sand Script IV, by American artist Juliet Holland (1937-2017). Metallic copper accentuates the center of this abstract collage painting with linear strokes of matte black and frenetic drips of white paint. Purposefully layered strips of paper compose a green and mauve ground. The frame is signed, titled, and dated verso. 

Born in Wellesley Hills and Duxbury, Massachusetts, Juliet Holland (1937-2017) moved on from her life as a suburban wife, mother, and social hostess and began her art practice in the 1960s. Holland’s adult life was spent between two chosen homes; for more than 35 years, she lived between an apartment at Bleeker and Broadway in New York City and a tiny fisherman’s cottage in Saugatuck Shores, Connecticut. Her technique mirrored her dual landscapes and incorporated 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. 

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, as well as a number of corporate and private collections. 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.

Measurements:

14" x 12" x 1.25" (frame);

Condition notes:

Markings, wear, scratches and scuffs to the frame and paper backing. Intentional wear to the painting.

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