Area of Research: Sculpture
Undergraduate Institution: Kennesaw State University
Place of Birth: Jacksonville, NC
Jeshua Holt is interested in memory. More specifically, how we access it and how it subsequently shapes our lives. Preferring not to restrict himself to any one type of art, he uses both two- and three-dimensional mediums to explore the small and seemingly unrelated details that we often come to associate with major past events. In a series of finely crafted shipping pallets, Holt uses photographic images imprinted into a layer of porcelain to invoke these types of memories. Presented in rearrangeable stacks, the pallets also allude to the idea of how memory is stored and accessed. Through this installation, the artist wants to evoke a feeling of discovery of all those brief moments that have affected our lives and our growth. In his video, in contrast, Holt looks at the shared memories of two people living together. Here, memory is a weight or rope that binds the two individuals even as they struggle against it.
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Blue Pallet #2, 2012, Walnut, Porcelain, Iron Oxide Transfer. 24’’-18’’
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