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ROSS ALLEN HOLT
www.rossholt.com


STATEMENT


“The… color work is full of suggestion, simultaneously revealing
and concealing inherent subject and meaning.”
--Therese Mulligan, Rochester Institute of Technology
Juror, 23rd North Carolina Photographers Annual Exhibition,
Meredith College, 2003

There’s a song by Pete Townshend called “Pure and Easy” in which the songwriter seeks “the simple secret of the note in us all.” I am using photography, that most documentary of arts, to explore the abstract qualities of concrete things and the surreal qualities of real things. I try to see in a different way the things everybody sees everyday, and create images that turn reality on its head.

Even so, my photographs are prints from 35mm negatives and there are no digital or darkroom manipulations in the printing. Except for minor cropping in a few images, you are seeing what the camera saw.

T.S. Eliot said good poetry communicates before it is understood. An image that does the same strikes us on a fundamental level that we all share, and moves us closer to the simple secret of that universal note, “playing so free like a breath rippling by.”



PHOTOGRAPHY

Selected Exhibitions

Solo

Invitational, United Arts Council Boardroom, Greensboro Cultural Center, Greensboro, NC
“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

5x5: Photography by Ross Holt, Katelyn Keith, Scott Hunt, Christi Ramsey and Eric Abernethy, W.H. Moring Art Center, Asheboro, NC, 2007
All Members Juried Exhibition, Honorable Mention, Center for Visual Artists, Greensboro, NC 2006
“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

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

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