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Born in Buffalo, NY and raised in Wellesley Hills and Duxbury, Massachusetts, Juliet Holland (1937-2017) moved on from her life as a suburban wife, mother, and social hostess and began her Art practice in the 1960s. Holland’s adult life was spent between two chosen homes; for more than 35 years, she lived between a loft at Bleeker and Broadway in New York City and a tiny fisherman’s cottage in Saugatuck Shores, Connecticut. Her technique mirrored her dual landscapes and incorporated rich layers of sand, paints, clay, powders, metallics, and natural found elements, which were built up, then scratched and scraped back down, creating layers — evoking time. 

Holland showed in over one hundred one-person and group exhibitions between 1981 and 2018. Her work is held in museums such as the San Antonio Museum of Modern Art, Reading Public Museum, as well as a number of corporate and private collections. Holland was a co-founder of Art Bridge, a program that established an artist exchange between Japan and the United States for twelve years. In addition to being an artist and businesswoman, she worked as a curator of several exhibitions and was on the board of directors of Lamia Ink!, a non-profit organization dedicated to the arts.

Her many cats were an important part of her life. She was a voracious reader; there was always a stack of library books on her table. She listened to a very diverse palette of music while she worked: world music, especially reggae, African and Sufi; ambient, especially Brian Eno; new age, indie and college rock, as well as classical.


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ASOKO II

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ASOKO IX

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ASOKO XIII

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ASOKO XVII

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ASOKO XVIII

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ASOKO XXII

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ASOKO 27

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ASOKO 28

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ASOKO 30

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ASOKO 35

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ASOKO 39

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ASOKO 40

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ASOKO 41

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ASOKO 42

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ASOKO III

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Asoko is a body of work that began in 1998. Each is a mixed media assemblage of wood, paint, sand, canvas and other materials. The early pieces were shown in solo exhibitions at Gallery Marya, Osaka, Japan; Cortland Jessup Gallery, Provincetown, Massachusetts, “Asoko”; and Lamia Ink! Project Room, New York, New York, “Asoko”. She continued to create works in this series through 2004.

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