ROSS HOLT | PHOTOGRAPHY | ABOUT

Statement

All of my photographs are what the camera saw. None are darkroom or digital creations, nor are they significantly manipulated beyond some cropping or enlarging, nor are they staged. All are concrete things that any observer in the same place under comparable conditions could see.

T.S. Eliot said that great poetry communicates before it is understood. Art should do the same thing. With no frame of reference for its anchor to reality (unless you look really, really closely), my work challenges the viewer not to decipher some meaning I have attached as if it were a puzzle to be solved, but to engage the mystery of the work on its own terms and its impact on the viewer. I hope, in doing so, the photographs murmur to a place inside us that we all share, before they are understood.

 

 Selected Exhibitions

Solo

  • "the razure of oblivion," Sara Smith Self Gallery, Randolph Arts Guild, Asheboro, NC, 2011
  • "Foment," Theatre Art Galleries Inc., High Point, NC, 2010
  • "Tarleton's Quarter,"  Theatre Art Galleries Inc., High Point, NC, 2010
  • Invitational, Gallery 101, Randolph Arts Guild, Asheboro, NC, 2008
  • "Some Consequence Yet Hanging," Crocker's Mark Gallery, Raleigh, NC, 2008
  • Invitational, United Arts Council Boardroom, Cultural Arts Center, Greensboro, NC, 2007
  • "Rise, and Fight Again: Revolutionary Photographs," Center for Visual Artists, Greensboro, NC, 2006
  • "Veil," Ellenburg & Shaffer Glass Art Studio, Greensboro, NC, 2005
  • "World Turned Rightside Up," Irene Cullis Gallery, Greensboro College, Greensboro, NC, 2001
  • "(rh)2" collaboration with sculptor Roger Halligan, W.H. Moring Art Center, Asheboro, NC, 2000
  • "Better Red than Read," Guilford Technical Community College, Jamestown, NC, 2001
  • "…aim with the nicest precision", W.H. Moring Art Center, Asheboro, NC, 1996

Group
  • "The Devil is in the Details: Old Scratch" Photograhpy by Ross Holt and Becky VanderVeen, Anne Rudd Gaylon Gallery, Greensboro College, 2013
  • "Ross Holt, Ellen Greer, Bill Donnan, Derrick Sides," Front Gallery, Chattanooga, TN, 2012
  • "Perspectives," The Artery, Greensboro, NC, 2012
  • "State of the Art/Art of the State," Cameron Art Museum, Wilmington, NC 2011
  • RESPECT, CreateHere Gallery, Chattanooga, TN, 2008
  • "Make a Joyful Noise," W.H. Moring Art Center, Asheboro, NC, 2007
  • "5x5: Photography by Ross Holt, Katelyn Keith, Scott Hunt, Christi Ramsey and Eric Abernethy," W.H. Moring Art Center, Asheboro, NC, 2007
  • "Art & War," Arts West Gallery, Elon University, Elon, NC 2006-2007
  • "Compilation of Color and Texture," Wachovia Tower Lobby, Greensboro, NC, 2006
  • Exposure Biennial National Juried Photo Exhibition, Center for Visual Artists, Greensboro, NC 2006 (juror; work included at request of organization), 2006
  • Holiday Show, Center for Visual Artists, Greensboro, NC 2005
  • North Carolina Photographers Annual Exhibition, Honorable Mention , Meredith College, Raleigh, NC 2005
  • Randolph Arts Guild Juried Art Show, First Place, W. H. Moring Jr. Art Center, Asheboro, NC, 2004
  • Randolph Arts Guild Juried Art Show, Honorable Mention, W. H. Moring Jr. Art Center, Asheboro, NC, 2004
  • Merry Moor Winnett Photography Triennial, Green Hill Center for North Carolina Art, Greensboro, NC 2004
  • Winter Show, Green Hill Center for North Carolina Art, Greensboro, NC 2003
  • North Carolina Photographers Annual Exhibition, Best in Show, Meredith College, Raleigh, NC 2003
  • "Exposure," Juried Photography Show, Greensboro Artists League, Greensboro, NC, 2003
  • Randolph Arts Guild Juried Art Show, Best in Show, W. H. Moring Jr. Art Center, Asheboro, NC, 2002
  • Randolph Arts Guild Juried Art Show, First Place, Photography, W. H. Moring Jr. Art Center, Asheboro, NC, 1999
  • Randolph Arts Guild Juried Art Show, Third Place, Photography, W. H. Moring Jr. Art Center, Asheboro, NC, 1997

Publications

  • "Meet an Artist: Ross Holt, photographer," Go Triad, March 11-17, 2009, p. 29
  • "Shots of Battle: Photography exhibit captures decades of Guilford reenactments," News & Record [Greensboro, NC], March 16, 2006, B1
  • North Carolina Photographers Annual Exhibition, catalog, 2003
  • Compact Disc art and design, "Noodles," Jack Gorham, 2003
  • Compact Disc cover and booklet design, "Songs My Father Taught Me," Larry G. Davis, 2001
  • Que Pasa Carolina, July 4, 2000, front page feature on U.S. Independence Day, two photographs
  • "The Art of Photography: Photographer looks for unique images to capture," The Courier-Tribune [Asheboro, NC], August 13, 1996, A1

Other

  • Juror, Exposure Biennial National Juried Photo Exhibition, Center for Visual Artists, Greensboro, NC, 2006
  • Emerging Artist Grant, Central Piedmont Regional Artists Hub, North Carolina Arts Council, 2000

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