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The Art RoomIt may have been in part a lack of social skills that led me to create an alternative reality instead of fully participating in the one that I lived. In the high school art room I preferred to paint imaginary landscapes of places I would rather be, while my classmates talked about their weekends and listened to The Doors and Led Zeppelin almost exclusively. I spent hours inside my bedroom staring into the mirror, drawing images of myself staring back. That time alone became decidedly important, because when my father would enter without knocking, I always flashed him a glare of death at being disrupted. This auspicious awkwardness of adolescence forced an inner escape where the world in all its unknowing somehow made sense. I was seduced by graphite impregnated paper, intoxicated by colors dancing upon pavement and singed several eyelashes gazing longingly inside kilns breathing with fire. Within pleasure and discipline, I still live somewhere between, tongue tied by visual language.
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Holly Curcio grew up in Massachusetts with an early interest in art. She received her BFA in ceramics from the University of Massachusetts, Dartmouth, focusing on figurative painting and sculpture. She went on to develop her artwork at residencies around the country from Watershed Center for the Ceramic Arts in Maine to Mendocino Art Center in Northern California where she exhibited in the figurative art scene and completed public art commissions. She returned to academia, earning her MFA in ceramics from Arizona State University in 2007. Her thesis work explored the journal as a symbolic object through sculptural forms and diary excerpts. Artist residencies at Anderson Ranch Art Center and Carbondale Clay Center brought her to the vibrant artist communities of Colorado. After traveling around for twelve years, in 2011 she returned to her home state to do a residency at Mudflat Studio in Somerville MA. In 2019 she received an Artist Fellowship In Sculpture from the Massachusetts Cultural Council. Returning to the Boston area also reignited an interest in comics making, delving deeper into the narrative art form and telling stories about life experiences. She currently works as an art restorer of objects by day, balancing her time between sketching comics and sculpting clay.
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