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Jordan Holms is a multidisciplinary artist working in painting, textiles, and sculpture. With a keen sense for architecture and design, her practice considers how aesthetic ‘tastes’ are materialized, organized, and made to mean. Mining source materials from the built environment (both physical and online) Holms’s work references commodity culture, folk art, flea markets, reality television, boutique concept stores, and so-called aspirational design accounts on social media. Filtered through the lens of abstraction, her work interprets the things we find in our homes and in the built environment that signal something about how taste produces meaning. Through her work, Holms constructs irreverent and errant spaces that index their own meanings in an attempt to make sense of what ‘having taste’ might look like in a moment wherein cultural trends are dictated by algorithms as well as elites.
Holms has exhibited in the United States, the United Kingdom, and Canada, and her work is held in multiple private collections. She has participated in solo exhibitions at Marrow Gallery (2020; 2018), and group exhibitions at the de Young Museum (2020), and SFMOMA Artists Gallery (2019). She has attended residencies at the Icelandic Textile Center (2022) and Vermont Studio Center (2020). Holms earned a Master of Arts and Master of Fine Arts from the San Francisco Art Institute (2019). She currently lives and works in South London, UK.
Jordan Holms is a multidisciplinary artist working in painting, textiles, and sculpture. With a keen sense for architecture and design, her practice considers how aesthetic ‘tastes’ are materialized, organized, and made to mean. Mining source materials from the built environment (both physical and online) Holms’s work references commodity culture, folk art, flea markets, reality television, boutique concept stores, and so-called aspirational design accounts on social media. Filtered through the lens of abstraction, her work interprets the things we find in our homes and in the built environment that signal something about how taste produces meaning. Through her work, Holms constructs irreverent and errant spaces that index their own meanings in an attempt to make sense of what ‘having taste’ might look like in a moment wherein cultural trends are dictated by algorithms as well as elites.
Holms has exhibited in the United States, the United Kingdom, and Canada, and her work is held in multiple private collections. She has participated in solo exhibitions at Marrow Gallery (2020; 2018), and group exhibitions at the de Young Museum (2020), and SFMOMA Artists Gallery (2019). She has attended residencies at the Icelandic Textile Center (2022) and Vermont Studio Center (2020). Holms earned a Master of Arts and Master of Fine Arts from the San Francisco Art Institute (2019). She currently lives and works in South London, UK.
Carpet Tape
60x48”, acrylic and soft pastel on canvas
It's A Classic, Just Go With It
acrylic on canvas paper, 19.5x14.5”, 2020
Add Some Polish to Your Life
Acrylic on canvas paper, 19.5x14.5”, 2020
Thresholds III
60x75", acrylic on canvas, 2017
Sharper Than Your Average Knife
Acrylic and soft pastel on canvas paper, 19.5x14.5”, 2020
Make Do and Mend II
acrylic on canvas, 24x20”
Hard Dentistry
Acrylic on canvas paper, 18x14”, 2020