Lonnie Holley
American · b. 1950 · Painter, Sculptor
Lonnie Bradley Holley, sometimes known as the Sand Man, is an American artist, art educator and musician. He is best known for his assemblages and immersive environments made… (Wikipedia)
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Abstract Composition in green and black -Jackson's International Auctioneers · $3,250≈ £2,643≈ €3,082Sign up to see
AbstractionToomey & Co. · $2,520≈ £1,953≈ €2,279Sign up to see
Untitled (Face)Toomey & Co. · $2,125≈ £1,917≈ €2,186Sign up to see
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Lonnie Bradley Holley, sometimes known as the Sand Man, is an American artist, art educator and musician. He is best known for his assemblages and immersive environments made of found materials. In 1981, he brought a few of his sandstone carvings to then-Birmingham Museum of Art director Richard Murray, who helped to promote his work. In addition to solo exhibitions at the Birmingham Museum of Art and the Halsey Institute of Contemporary Art at the College of Charleston, Holley has exhibited in group exhibitions with other Black artists from the American South at the Michael C. Carlos Museum and the High Museum of Art in Atlanta, the Studio Museum in Harlem, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Philadelphia Museum of Art, the Toledo Museum of Art, Pérez Art Museum Miami, NSU Museum of Art Fort Lauderdale, the Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, de Young Museum in San Francisco, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., the Ikon Gallery in Birmingham, England, and the Royal Academy of Arts in London, among other places.
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In the collections of
Georgia Museum of ArtMetropolitan Museum of ArtPhiladelphia Museum of ArtPérez Art Museum MiamiSmithsonian American Art MuseumStudio Museum in HarlemWhitney Museum of American Art
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Also known as Lonnie B. Holley, Lonnie Bradley Holley
Artist record compiled from: Wikidata (CC0), Getty ULAN (ODC-By), National Gallery of Art open data (CC0), The Met Open Access (CC0). See data sources & attribution.