Mamie Holst: From the Series Landscape Before Dying
October 24 – December 6, 2008

With her ongoing series of paintings titled “Landscape Before Dying,” Mamie Holst explores the inspiring abstract landscape within her experience of chronic fatigue and immune dysfunction syndrome. Since 1989, when she was diagnosed with CFIDS and forced to return home, she has mined her syndrome related sensations for her work’s static, tremor, crosshairs, elegance, distortion, drift, space, targets, voids, isolation, and peace. Mamie noted that:

“I feel like I don't really think anymore. Of course I still think or else I wouldn't function obviously, but it's a much more basic type of thinking. It's like if you try to think big thoughts your brain hits a blank wall. When painting, it just sort of comes out. While looking at a finished painting, I can't really remember how I did it. I know where I put the lines down etc., but most of the decision making is more subconscious.”

Mamie Holst was born in Florida in 1961. She received an AA degree in 1981 from Edison Community College and attended the School of Visual Arts in New York City from 1987 to 1989 where she earned an MFA. A John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship was awarded to Mamie in 2005. Mamie is represented by Feature Inc, New York, NY. Mamie currently lives in Ft. Myers, FL.

Mamie Holst, Landscape Before Dying (High Strangeness)
Acrylic on canvas, 14” x 18”, 2001

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