Bio

My roots bridge the island of Puerto Rico and peninsula of Cape Cod, the one formed by ancient volcanoes and the other nearly afresh by glacial drift. Art played a foundational role in my childhood, where I was immersed in a family of painters, potters, poets + plastic artists; bartering helped to raise the 8 of us! My stepfather, potter + sculptor Harry Holl, together with painter Salvatore Del Deo and sculptor + lawyer Roy Freed, founded the Cape Museum of Fine Arts in 1981.

Recognitions include a 2 year Swedish Institute Fellowship, NEFA Award, NEFA-Benton Award, Vermont Studio Center Residency, Trustman Travelling Fellowship, Radcliffe Education Grant, and the Harvard McCord Prize in the Creative Arts.

Critics have called her work "knockout, confident painting" exhibiting "a marvelous synthesis of visual energy", with imagery that "rises and falls out of mists of paint that disrupt our expectation of space and read like dreams", and works that "tease, drawing you into detail that resonates, then pushing you away with their unsettling context".

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Instagram | jahamadeoholl
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Contact | amadeoholl@gmail.com
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Paintings available at:
Provincetown, MA: Schoolhouse Gallery, 494 Commercial Street
Hudson, NY: Galerie Gris, 621 Warren Street
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Founding member of Artist Live-Work Housing in Fort Point Boston.
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Beyond painting
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Thoughts under investigation:

• “Reality is a controlled hallucination” (Anil Seth, neuroscientist)

• ”Perhaps man has a hundred senses, and when he dies only the five senses that we know perish with him, and the other ninety-five remain alive.” (Anton Chekhov, The Cherry Orchard)

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Red Arch Cultural Heritage Law & Policy Research - Board Member since 2006
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Food Insecurity:

• Eastie Farms - Grassroots effort to build coastal resilience, urban farming + end food insecurity

• Supper Club, Paulist Center - all are welcome - indoors sit-down full-service home-cooked food
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  Invocation:

• “Art should prepare us for tenderness.” Anton Chekhov (via George Saunders)