Turn Park, West Stockbridge, MA “Jim Holl at Turnpark”

Life is precarious. The heavier the load, the greater the chance; one never knows when the wheel barrow is to tip over.

Byrdcliffe Guild, Woodstock, NY. “Quick, Down and Dirty”

“Let’s Talk About Art” was an installation inviting visitors to engage in spontaneous expressions of what art means to them while gathered in an open meeting hall in nature.  Paralleling the “Podium” were two canvases stretched upon easels, with markers ready for the viewers’ active comments. Surrounding the perimeter of the outdoor meeting site stretched wires to hang the “paintings” upon.

Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art, New Paltz, NY, “Dear Mother Nature: Hudson Valley Artists.”

By God’s hand, the clouds drift above the museum.

Philadelphia Art Alliance, Philadelphia, PA, “The Significant Surface”

One hundred busts commemorating the 20th century.  Each bust engraved with the numerals of one year, memorializing events of each year.

Soho Center for Contemporary Art, NY, NY, “Forms of Allusion”

The sculpture is an erotic expression in response to Senator Jesse Helms attack on pornography in art at that time. The content is a conceptual representation of two people engaged in intercourse. The form is associative.

55 Mercer Gallery, NY, NY, “Our Last Sleep We Fly”

Sculpture installation, pairing with a poem: “Last toast, Be exposed, Have solace, Bid farewell, Take medicine, Throw lamps, Last lay, And tossed cover, For all, afterward, Below, And beyond.  

55 Mercer Gallery, NY, NY

“And Tossed Cover,”  from the exhibition “Our Last Sleep We Fly”. The installation commemorated the AIDS epidemic.

Creative Time, Art on the Beach

The installation and performance enticed the viewers to become participants when they dug into the hills of boots, finding gold slippers filled with money.  The recorders in the megaphones began to chatter, from the “Sentinel” booth a harlequin issued new pairs of shoes. By direct participation each viewer became responsible for creating the work of art. Jim Holl, Liz Diller and Kaylynn Sullivan.

The New Museum Special Projects, The World Toy Company.

“In his work for the Window, James Holl constructed four episodes in each of four windows to address a central theme concerned with consumption and the moral consequences of choice. Utilizing merchandizing techniques which were prevalent and available in the Fourteenth Street shopping district at the time, one of the windows, titled World Toy Company,

Artist’s Space, “Wake Up It’s Time To Go To Work.”

An installation addressing late capitalism. Some baskets had many “chips”, others had none. The clock was always set at 9 am. Above, the ticker taped did not show  gains,  it presented a conveyer  belt of bills. Underneath, the photo presented a new ethanol plant, a forerunner for change.

 PS 1 Museum, Special Projects Exhibition, Long Island City, NY. When Creatures Crawled From the Bowels of the Earth

The installation invited viewer participation by diminutive signs that directed participants to journey behind the boiler, across a bridge over a pool, upon a stage crossing over forms of leaping creatures from below the floor.