Holly Solomon

Holly Solomon as Hollis Dworken (born February 12, 1934 in Bridgeport , Connecticut , USA ; † June 6, 2002 in Manhattan , New York City ) was an American art dealer , gallery owner and actress .

Life

Holly Solomon studied acting and art history at Vassar College in Poughkeepsie and later at Sarah Lawrence College .

Holly Solomon was, together with her husband Horace Solomon, an early collector of contemporary art from the early 1960s. They started with a non-commercial showroom for avant-garde art in New York and ran a gallery together until they split up in 1988, when she continued her own gallery.

Holly Solomon was an influential gallery owner who exhibited the pop art and early works of artists such as Robert Kushner , Robert Mapplethorpe , Christo , Nam June Paik , Neil Jenney , Robert Barry , William Wegman and Laurie Anderson . Even Gordon Matta-Clark was one of the artists who promoted the Holly Solomon. She has been portrayed several times by artists such as Andy Warhol , Robert Rauschenberg and Roy Lichtenstein .

She was also an artist herself. Among other things, she made documentaries about art together with the cameraman and filmmaker Bert Spielvogel . As an actress, she appeared in several films under the pseudonym Hollis Belmont . Among other things in the independent film The Plot Against Harry from 1969 (first shown in 1989), where she played a prostitute.

Holly Solomon and Bert Spielvogel participated in Documenta 5 in Kassel in 1972 with the film “98.5” in the Individual Mythologies : Film department .

Literature and Sources

• Exhibition catalog: documenta 5. Survey of Reality - Imagery Today ; Catalog (as a file folder) Volume 1: (Material); Volume 2: (list of exhibits); Kassel 1972
• documenta archive (ed.); Resubmission d5 - A survey of the archive on documenta 1972 ; Kassel / Ostfildern 2001, ISBN 3-7757-1121-X

Web links

• Holly Solomon in the Internet Movie Database (English)
• Holly Solomon Gallery