Opening Reception:

March 23, 2005
5:00 pm to 7:00 pm

Exhibition: March 23 - May 27, 2005

University Galleries are proud to present The Art of Joseph Holston: A Retrospective. This exhibition will feature paintings and prints produced over the extensive career of abstract cubist painter Joseph Holston. Holston , a Maryland-based artist works who has a distinguished career spanning over 30 years will be the Spring 2005 Artist-In-Residence at North Carolina A&T State University and will be on campus for the entire month of March.

Joseph Holston’s art is geometrical and inviting to viewers with his usage of vibrant color. His works express movement with forms and color which extend meaning beyond the mere narrative. Joseph Holston is largely a self-taught artist with commercial art training; however, one can see parallels between his work and that of a number of renowned artists. These artists include John Singer Sargeant, Pablo Picasso, Romare Bearden, and Jacob Lawrence. Holston received mentoring from renowned artists and educators such as Lois Mailou Jones, Richard Goetz, and James Lesesne Wells. In addition, Holston ’s work was influenced by a stay in Africa in 1977 that encouraged his use of bold color to express emotion and compositional strength in his work.

Works by Joseph Holston are included in numerous museum, institution and private collections. Among these are the permanent collection of the Yale University Art Gallery; the Baltimore Museum of Art, the Washington County Museum of Fine Art; Butler Institute of American Art; the Museum of Art at the Rhode Island School of Design; the Banneker-Douglass Museum, Annapolis, Maryland; the King-Tisdell Cottage Museum, Savannah, Georgia; the Lyndon B. Johnson Library at the University of Texas; DePauw University, Howard University, the University of Maryland University College, the University of Vermont, the AFL -CIO, Washington, D. C.; the Hubert H. Humphrey Collection, the Evans-Tibbs Collection, the Donald Byrd Collection, the Jean and Robert Steele Collection, the David and Thelma Driskell Collection, and New York City’s Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture.

The Art of Joseph Holston: A Retrospective will be on display from March 23- May 27, 2005 . Holston will also be the resident artist for North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University ’s new Artist in Residency Program from March 1, 2005 -March 30, 2005.

The University Galleries are located on the corner of Dudley and Bluford Streets at North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University . Take East Market Street north from downtown and take a left on Dudley Street. Afterwards, take a right on University Circle (look for a blue street sign identified as University Circle ). The Dudley Building is located within University Circle , which surrounds the A&T/Greensboro Four statue. The hours of operation are from 10: 00 am to 5:00 pm Tuesday through Friday and Saturdays from 1:00 pm to 5:00 pm. The Galleries are closed Sundays, Mondays and University holidays. For more information, call University Galleries at (336) 334-3209 . Also, visitors may call University Parking Services to inquire about available parking at (336) 334-7980.