Sunday Evening Art Gallery — Holly Coulis

Holly Coulis (1968-) is a Canadian painter from Toronto, Canada.Coulis received her BFA from Ontario College of Art and Design (Toronto, Canada) in 1995 and her MFA from School of the Museum of Fine Arts (Boston, MA) in 1998.Coulis is an artist whose work investigates painterly space.Through her observations of everyday life, her intuitive, yet calculated, visual language creates images that oscillate between symbols and abstraction.Coulis builds abstraction using both her observations of everyday objects and the movement of her brush itself. Working from initial sketches, Coulis first creates space through brushy lines and defined areas of applied paint, each outlined in color. She then further divides up areas and circumscribes forms.The result is abstracted composition intersecting with the odd still-life object – a lemon or an orange perhaps.More of Holly Coulis’ marvelous abstract artwork can be found at https://whitewall.art/art/holly-coulis-shows-us-how-to-look-closer/ and https://coopercolegallery.com/artist/holly-coulis/.