HOLLY ROBERTS: PAINT & PHOTOGRAPHS

Opening Reception: Saturday, March 14, 2026 · 6-9PM

​On View: February 28 – March 30, 2026

​Admission: Free and open to the public

Holly Roberts’ first national exposure came in 1989 with the publication of the monograph, Holly Roberts, from the Untitled Series published by the Friends of Photography. Although her work has always been based on the photograph, the inclusion of paint made it a distinct entity.

As David Featherstone wrote in his introduction to the monograph, “Roberts is a painter, yet it is the photograph underlying the paint, even when it can scarcely be seen, that gives the work its intriguing, mysterious power. Drawing from the iconography of primitive art, particularly that of the Native American, Mexican and Hispanic cultures of the Southwest, where she lives, she creates paintings that address a broad range of human emotions. While it is Roberts’ evolving interaction with the photograph that takes her to her finished work, it is the existence of the underlying photographic image—even when it is obscured by paint—that gives the work its powerful qualities and sets up the emotional challenge for the viewer.”