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Jordan Eagles
New York, New York
Education:
1999 B.A., New York University, The Gallatin School for Individualized Studies, Fine Arts/ Media Studies
Solo Exhibitions:
2008
NEW BLOOD (SOUTH Part II), Krause Gallery, Atlanta, GA
NEW BLOOD (EAST), Merge Gallery, New York, NY
NEW BLOOD (SOUTH Part I), Poliform/Switch Gallery, Atlanta, GA
NEW BLOOD (WEST), Mark Wolfe Contemporary Art, San Francisco, CA
2007
PHASE/FK, Touchet Gallery, Baltimore, MD
ANIMAL-SPIRIT-MACHINE, Real Art Ways, Hartford, CT
SIGNS OF LIFE, Merge Gallery, New York, NY
Orbs & Phases, Qbix Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
2006
PHASES, Sensei, New York, NY
Orbs & Energy, Touchet Gallery, Baltimore, MD
2005
Alive, Qbix Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
2004
Continuum, domogallery, Summit, NJ
2003
Selected Works from “A Trans-Natal Experience,” The Bronfman Center Gallery at New York University,
New York, NY
1999Flesh Factor, Hudson Valley Institute for Art & Photographic Resource, Peekskill, NY
Two Person Exhibitions:
2007
New Works, Krause Gallery, Atlanta, GA
2005
Organic, Liquid Blue Gallery, Miami, FL
Group Exhibitions:
2008
Collaboration, Krause Gallery, Atlanta, GA
2007
Bridge Art Fair Miami, Ma
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By J.A. Jones, Staff Writer
ST. PETERSBURG — You have until September 15 to get to MFA St. Pete to see works by the great Lonnie Holley, a multidisciplinary artist whose otherworldly pieces strike you to the bone and stay with you.
In the Museum of Fine Arts’ exhibition Never the Same Song, Holley’s work is paired with the work of artist Lizzi Bougatsos. Holley and Bougatsos met a decade ago and have continued their connection, with some of the work in the show created by both at Holley’s studio. Both artists use found and repurposed objects in their visual creations; both are improvisational musicians concerned with environmental protection and social justice. Both use film documentation of their work to expand their storytelling.
Cautiously Rewired (2024)
Both of their lives were indelibly marked by fire.
Select pieces of Holley’s trans-dimensional mastery deliver an epic journey from a chaotic, stolen childhood — as the seventh child of 27, he was taken from his family at the age of 12 and enrolled in Alabama Industrial School for Negro Children, a documented house of horror. (Writer Josie Duffy Rice’s Peabody-nominated podcast “Unreformed: the Story of the Alabama Industrial School for Negro Children” covers the history and abuse.)
His path from tha
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