SF Presentation: Doug Hollis
Alumni and guests of Michigan Art & Design and the Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning are invited to a presentation by Environmental Artist Doug Hollis (BFA ‘70)
DATE: Friday, October 29, 2010
TIME: 6:00 — 8:00 pm; Presentation at 6:30 pm
HOSTS: Michigan Art & Design’s Northern California Alumni Regional Committee: Roddie Pistilli, BSDES ‘54 and Bill Reuter, BFA ‘80, Co-chairs
PLACE: 3A Gallery
Mark Horton/Architecture
101 South Park, San Francisco, CA 94107
Refreshments will be served.
There is street parking and the location is within walking distance from both the MUNI and Cal Train Station.
Space is limited! Please RSVP by Monday, October 25 to Scott Creech at creechsc@umich.edu or 734−763−4256.
Since his graduation from UM in 1970, Doug Hollis has created more than 30 public wind- and water-activated sonic installations nationwide, often collaborating with other artists, architects and landscape architects. Some of these include Tidal Park in Port Townsend, Washington; Rain Column, in San Francisco; Watersongs, for the US Geological Survey, Menlo Park; and Unspecified Gravity at the University of South Florida in Tampa.
Doug continues to develop his work in sound structures and landscape, always working on-site and establishing a rapport with the dynamics of the site and with the people who encounter these places. One of his most recent commissions is at the U‑M Medical Center campus: a memorial entitled “Rotations” (shown at the top of this message), commemorating the physicians and emergency personnel who lost their lives in a 2007 medivac helicopter crash.
Doug’s talk will focus on how he has translated his interest in landscape and natural phenomena into an art practice creating oasis-like structures where people can pause to catch their spiritual breath in the midst of their everyday lives.
For more information on Doug’s work, visit http://www.douglashollis.com/.