UNLV Marjorie Barrick Museum of Art
Las Vegas, Nevada
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Brent Holmes
"Superbia Civilis", 2016
Found object, spray paint, mixed media
Marjorie Barrick Museum of Art Collection
Gift of Dan and Lori Fischer
2017.05
Brent Holmes investigates the margins of our urban landscape for places where classical philosophy finds an echo in contemporary mores. Discovering this semi-crushed shopping trolley in a car park, he realized its flattened, undulating surface had offered him an opportunity to visually connect two different sets of ideas that occur contextually around commercialism and the American flag. Superbia Civilis originally appeared in Ignominious Refuse, Holmes' 2016 solo exhibition at the Winchester- Dondero Cultural Center in Winchester, NV. Throughout the exhibition he used language and imagery to draw comparisons between modern public life and manifestations of Ancient Rome. (DKS)
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- Created: 2016
- Inventory Number: 2017.05.002
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