Robin Holder “Access & Inequities: I Hear You. Do You See Me?”

Kentler International Drawing Space

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Kentler International Drawing Space presents Access and Inequities: I Hear You. Do You See Me?, a solo exhibition by artist robin holder.

Holder’s work explores the theme of home and its many implications, including identity, family, race, migration and upheaval. Using the house as a primary motif, she illuminates the American Dream’s crumbling vision of prosperity. Though the concept of home is universal, social and economic disparities create devastating polarization. Where one feels safe and secure, another is deeply unsettled.

This multi-media exhibition features drawing, collage, printmaking, stencil, digital manipulation and text. The new works build on a series began in 1999 with an Individual Visual Artist Grant from the Brooklyn Arts Council, culminating in a twenty-year examination of displacement in New York City. A lifelong activist, holder’s mission is to question and challenge the status quo. Above all, her drawings dignify and humanize their subjects (many of whom are real people), imbuing in viewers a heightened sense of empathy and understanding.