Lonnie Holley with Kerry James Marshall at Prospect.3 - Art 21
Lonnie Holley
In this video these two artist tour Lonnie Holley's installation that is site specific located at a historically black college.
He talks about the different ways in which he could have implemented the sculpture, creating different effects of the implication of music and how his culture and how influential figures and music influenced him. He creates a story with this work, based in Atlanta Georgia. I found it interesting when they said, "I'm only interested in seeing what happens, so i can know what I'm going to do next" in response to why would one create such expensive work that has not reasonable or immediate resale value. This felt nice to hear as an artist, that there is intrinsic value in finding out what happens and pushing on ward.
“No matter what you do to my music—how you tear it apart—you can do all the harm that you want to do to the instrument,” says Holley, “but the music is in the human.”
"After a wild and unsettled youth, Holley started making sand sculptures at age twenty-nine and in time began working with found objects and painting. His assemblages, which bring together recycled and natural materials, remain his most widely known works. Holley was included in the 2006 book, The Last Folk Hero: A True Story of Race and Art, Power and Profit, about the collector Bill Arnett, and was featured in the landmark 1981 exhibition, More than Land and Sky: Art From Appalachia, at the National Museum of American Art."
https://art21.org/watch/artist-to-artist/lonnie-holley-with-kerry-james-marshall-at-prospect-3/
Interesting choice. Kerry James Marshall talked about his own Atlanta, Georgia installation in this video. He's the one who thinks the artist can't just think about resale value.
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