Architect’s Dream
2006
Cibachrome
Concept sketch, precedes edition of 6
40" x 26"

Minimum Bid: $500

Julee Holcombe

Bio: Julee Holcombe was born in Texarkana, Texas, and grew up in Portsmouth, New Hampshire; Park City, Utah; Hingham, Massachusetts; and Santa Fe, New Mexico. Holcombe received an MFA in Photography and Digital Imaging at Maryland Institute College of Art in 2004. She received her BFA at the University of New Mexico in Photography and Sculpture in 1998. Beginning in the fall of 2006, she will teach photography at the University of New Hampshire, as an Assistant Professor of Art and Art History. Recent group shows include: "Hystoria," at the District of Columbia Arts Center in Washington, D.C. and “Rewind,” in Wiesbaden, Germany. Holcombe’s work is in the collection of Allen Memorial Art Museum at Oberlin College in Ohio and the Portland Museum of Art in Portland, Maine.

Artist Statement: My “Architect’s Dream” is a digital composite of sights seen during a recent trip I took to Las Vegas Nevada. Inspiration came from the book Learning from Las Vegas by Venturi, Izenour, and Brown, and from the painting “The Architect's Dream” by Thomas Cole. By using symbolic embellishments from the new Vega’s strip, I wanted to make a photograph that echoed Cole’s idea of an architectural nightmare. I seek to represent the power and glamour of commercial individuals striving to stand apart, yet when seen as a whole, accomplish merely to create a homogenization.