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You know the day destroys the night/Night divides the day/Tried to run/Tried to hide/Break on through to the other side/Break on through to the other side/Break on through to the other side - The Doors
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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 is an artist from Massachusetts who explores the narrative art form through ceramic sculptures and comics. She holds a BFA in ceramics from the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth (1996) and an MFA in ceramics from Arizona State University (2007). She developed her artwork at several artist residencies including: Watershed Center for the Ceramic Arts, Mendocino Art Center, Anderson Ranch Art Center, Carbondale Clay Center and Red Lodge Art Center. She returned to her home state of Massachusetts in 2011 to do a residency at Mudflat Studio in Somerville, where she currently maintains her studio. 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. In 2021 she completed the Sequential Artist Workshop Comics Certificate Program. She currently works as an art restorer of objects by day, balancing her time between sketching comics and sculpting clay.
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