Curated by Tracy Longley-Cook, Associate Professor of Art, School of Fine and Performing Arts
Regular Gallery Hours: Tuesday—Saturday, 11 a.m. to 4. p.m.
Through the layering of paint, photographs, and collaged materials, Holly Roberts converges form, memory, mythology, and emotion. She is an artist celebrated for her ability to merge and combine media into hauntingly layered visual narratives where the intersections between image and imagination overlap. Using the interplay of human figures, animals, and landscapes, she calls attention to the fragile beauty of the human and natural worlds, bringing the viewer into a state of psychological tension and emotional unease. Working with fragments of photographs as raw material, Roberts paints into and over them, blurring the boundaries between what is captured and what is created. The resulting images feel both personal and archetypal, evoking myths, dreams, and primal states of being. Figures emerge from landscapes, animals embody human traits, and stories surface that resist literal explanation and instead tap into the intuitive and the subconscious.
Image Credit: Young Girl Swimming, Mixed Media on Photograph, 20" x 24", by Holly Roberts
Related Events:
Artist Talk with Elizabeth Mead and Reception: October 29, 2026, 6 p.m.
Participating venue in the 2026 FotoFocus Biennial: The Long View www.fotofocus.org
This exhibit is sponsored in part by FotoFocus www.fotofocus.org and the Ohio Arts Council https://oac.ohio.gov/
