Colin Holden                   | painting | drawing | "Comics" | Early Works | about |
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Jelly Fish. 60 in. by 34 in..
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Squid. 60 in. by 40 in..
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Red. 60 in. by 40 in..
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Inferno. 60 by 40
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Capital 60 in. by 40 in.
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cylander. 60 by 40
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Up Again With the Night. 48 in. by 40 in..
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Too Many Birds. 52 in. by 40 in..
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Other People's Trees. 40 in. by 60 in..
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Numer One Fan. 60 in. by 40 in..
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The Whole picture, 60 in. by 40 in..
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The Storied Mountain. 40 in. by 34 in.
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The Garden of Earth Delights. Collection of Allee and Fross. 40 in. by 25 in.
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The Various Tensions Inherent in Western Civilizaion Condensed into a Single Work of Art for your Edification and Amusement. Entire Work 60 in. by 40 in.
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Mandala 60 in. by 40 in.
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Myths and Legends of Coconino County. Entire Work 40 in. by 60 in.
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"Comics"

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Punch Line 1. 2008
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Punch Line 2. 2009
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Punch Line 3. 2010
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Punch Line 4. 2008
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Punch Line 5. 2008
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Punch Line 6. 2009
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Punch Line 7. 2009
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Punch Line 8. 2009
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Punch Line 9. 2009
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Punch Line 10. 2010
Early Works
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Ripen on the Vine. Collection of Shawn Allee
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Roadkill Triptypch. Collection of Adam Briska. 1997.
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Roadkill Diptypch. Collection of Adam Briska. 1997.
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Torso After Vesalius. Collection of Sam Doyle. 1999.
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Squid. Collection of Davis and Wentzel 1999.
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Turtle Embryos after Haekel. Collection of Allee and Fross. 2000.
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Orange. Collection of McElwee and Nelson 2000.
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Pear. Collection of Deutsch and Klee 2000.
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Red Mandala. Collection of StudioQuest 2001.
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Birds. 2002.
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Skelyton. 2002.
About


The Person: Colin Holden is an artist who lives in Madison WI. You can write to him at colin.holden@gmail.com

The Art: My works come from a method of layering, covering and obscuring.

My paintings are the product of creating forms, then painting over all but the traces of those forms,
then beginning again. The result is a work in which expression is obscured or absent and the process and its result are central.

My drawings layer stories and themes in a matrix of 'noise'and competing images, so that the original themes I had in mind are obscured, difficult to extract, and irrelevant.