“Stacey Holloway: Othernesses” Exhibit Opens at the Birmingham Public Library

 

The Birmingham Public Library is excited to announce the opening of two new art exhibitions at downtown’s Central Library. Stacey Holloway: Othernesses and Misty Bennett: Candy Crush are the most recent installments of this year’s Art for Everyone series.

Stacey Holloway: Othernesses features intriguing animal sculptures and other creations by artist Stacey Holloway. Holloway is an active national mixed media artist, sculptor, and fabricator who works within a variety of media, including drawing, printmaking, sculpture, ceramics, and interactivity. Through the exploration of storytelling and ethology, she creates work that communicates a universal societal connectivity.

Holloway received her MFA from the University of Minnesota in 2009, her BFA from Herron School of Art and Design/IUPUI in 2006, and has been living and working in Birmingham, Alabama since 2013. She currently serves as the Associate Professor of Sculpture at the University of Alabama at Birmingham. 

Holloway has exhibited throughout the Midwest, South, and East Coast. She has received distinguished awards such as the 2021 Visual Arts Fellowship through the Alabama State Council on the Arts, the 2017 SECAC Artist’s Fellowship, and the 2010 Efroymson Contemporary Arts Fellowship through the Central Indiana Community Foundation in Indianapolis. 

See more of Stacey Holloway’s work at staceyholloway.com and on Instagram @hollowspace. Artwork in this exhibition is available for purchase, and the artist receives 100% of each sale. For sales information, contact the artist at stacey@staceyholloway.com. 

This exhibition was made possible by a grant from the Alabama State Council on the Arts. The grant was awarded to the BPL Friends Foundation to benefit the library.

Stacey Holloway: Othernesses will be on view through March 29, 2024, on the first floor of the Central Library. The library is open Monday through Saturday from 9:00 am to 6:00 pm, with extended hours until 8:00 pm on Tuesday. 

Artist’s Statement

"I am a visual storyteller. The form of the narrative has been used for centuries to entertain, to preserve culture and to instill morals. Stories can be used to bridge cultures, languages and age barriers. Similar to Aesop, my interests lie in the animal realm and by using specific animal attributes to explore how our formative processes make up who we might become, or who we are attempting to become. Animal forms, architectural drafting and installations become the place for metaphors and narratives of uncertainty and longing. "I’m often drawn to items that have a story to tell. My mixed media installations are created from a series of parts, collections and recycled objects that are appropriated and combined with traditional carving, woodworking, casting, and fabricated structures. Similar to Surrealist artists, my hyper-exaggerated constructions investigate the subconscious and the balance of instinct and ethics."

By Margaret Splane, Library Assistant III|BPL Community Engagement & Fundraising