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Lonnie Holley
In this Society Children See Adults Smiling While Missing That Spiritual Eye

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One-Person Exhibitions 2022 Coming From the Earth, curated by Peter Doroshenko, Dallas Contemporary, Dallas, TX The Growth of Communication, Edel Assanti Gallery, London, UK 2021 The Influence of Images, Elizabeth Leach Gallery, Portland, OR Tangled Up in de Kooning’s Fence, South Etna, Montauk, NY Everything That Wasn’t White, Parrish Art Museum, Water Mill, NY 2019 Somewhere in a Dream I Got Lost, Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art, Winston-Salem, NC 2017 The Weight of Everything, James Fuentes, New York, NY I Snuck Off the Slave Ship, Atlanta Contemporary, Atlanta, GA Which Do We Drop First, the Baby or the Bomb?, James Fuentes, New York, NY 2015 Something to Take My Place, Halsey Institute of Contemporary Art, Charleston, SC Supported by the Power, John Hope Franklin Center, Duke University, Durham, NC It’s like Coming Home, Cash Rojas Projects, Atlanta, GA 2013 Keeping You Out of Harm’s Way, James Fuentes, New York, NY 2010 Assemblages and Drawings, Jeff Bailey Gallery, New York, NY 2005 Recent Works, Monty Stabler Galleries, Homewood, AL 2004 A Twenty-Five Year Survey, Birmingham Museum of Art, Birmingham, AL Do We Think Too Much? I Don't Think We Can Ever Stop, Ikon Gallery, Birmingham, UK 2003 Perspectives 8, Birmingham Museum of Art, Birmingham, AL 1994 Sculpture, Luise Ross Gallery, New York, NY 1991 Cultural Recycling: The Work of Lonnie Holley, Gasperi Gallery, New Orleans, LA 1986 Birmingham Public Library, Birmingham, AL 1984 Little House Galleries, Birmingham, AL
  • Creator:
    Lonnie Holley (1950, American)
  • Dimensions:
    Height: 42 in (106.68 cm)Width: 37 in (93.98 cm)Depth: 3 in (7.62 cm)
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  • Gallery Location:
    Chattahoochee Hills, GA
  • Reference Number:
    1stDibs: LU2058210953402

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