JOEL HOLUB | Stages | WAITING ROOM
June 2 - July 26, 2024
Most of these miniature paintings reflect my love for the anticipatory moment at the beginning of a theater performance. Other paintings are isolated vignettes or tableaux from imagined and occasionally referenced plays. Through these depictions of stages and curtains, I can reveal theatrical settings and spaces that frame and establish worlds within worlds.
Joel Holub is an artist currently living in Berlin. Until 2019, he lived in New York City, where he made and exhibited art. As of late, his projects have shifted toward graphic story projects and small scale paintings.
JOEL HOLUB | Bottles | TABLE
March 17 - April 19, 2024
The history of ships in a bottle – in a nut shell, sailors (and prisoners) with lots of time on their hands, and empty gin bottles, would make the tiny elaborate nautical models. To pass the time. To keep the mind and the hands busy. In my studio I began to make these planes in a bottle between working and waiting on other projects. At the same time, when I was making the first bottles, my wife and I were having a transatlantic relationship. This waiting for my wife and, anticipation of her arrival was in the background of my producing these objects. Some of the bottles have taken on more historical references as points of departure.
Joel Holub is an artist currently living in Berlin. Until 2019, he lived in New York City, where he made and exhibited art. As of late, his projects have shifted toward graphic story projects and small scale paintings.