Hollis Brown Thornton

About Hollis Brown Thornton

Aiken, SC

Hollis Brown Thornton (USA, 1976) was born and raised in Aiken, South Carolina. In spring of 1999, Thornton received his B.F.A. from the University of South Carolina in Columbia, South Carolina. Since August 2005, Thornton has been working out of his warehouse studio in Aiken, SC, as a full time artist. Thornton paints and draws the way memory stores and replicates things in an inaccurate, personal way. In his work, erasure, fragmentation and simplification represent the imperfect, limited nature of memory and the constant notion of flux in the physical and digital world. Thornton wants to replicate the transitional state between the past and the unknown and focus on the idea of being in a perpetual state of potential.

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Other works by Hollis Brown Thornton

Selected Exhibitions

There's Still Time, Florence County Museum
Florence, SC, 2018
A Long Time Ago, Gauntlet Gallery
San Francisco, CA, 2015
The Land Between Solar Systems, Linda Warren Gallery
Chicago, IL, 2013
Unexplained Mysteries of the Universe, Aisho Miura Arts
Tokyo, Japan, 2012
2 Year Anniversary Exhibition at POVevolving Gallery
Los Angeles, 2010
Hollis Brown Thornton: The Geography of Space at Sumter County Gallery of Art
Sumter, SC, 2009
The Earth on the Back of the Giant Turtle at Linda Warren Gallery
Chicago, IL, 2008

Press and Accolades

Notastereotupe Interview
May 5, 2010
Sycamore Street Press Interview
April 8, 2010
Designious Times Interview
April 7, 2010

Education

University of South Carolina, BFA
Columbia, SC,1999

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