{"id":4706,"date":"2011-10-28T16:25:10","date_gmt":"2011-10-28T16:25:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artoronto.ca\/?p=4706"},"modified":"2011-11-27T15:52:19","modified_gmt":"2011-11-27T15:52:19","slug":"dana-holst-sometimes-rainbows-are-black","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/artoronto.ca\/?p=4706","title":{"rendered":"Dana Holst: Sometimes Rainbows are Black"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.artoronto.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/dana-rainbow1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4707\" title=\"dana-rainbow1\" src=\"http:\/\/www.artoronto.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/dana-rainbow1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"202\" height=\"309\" \/><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>November 2 \u2013 26, 2011<\/strong><br \/>\nOpening Thursday November 3, 6\u00a0&#8211; 9 pm<br \/>\n<strong>THE RED HEAD GALLERY<\/strong><br \/>\n401 Richmond St. W., Suite 115.<br \/>\nToronto, ON M5V 3A8<br \/>\nT:\u00a0\u00a0416 504-5654.<br \/>\nEmail: <a href=\"mailto:art@redheadgallery.org\">art@redheadgallery.org<\/a>.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.redheadgallery.org\/\">www.redheadgallery.org<\/a>.<br \/>\nHours: Wed \u2013 Sat 12 \u2013 5 pm<\/p>\n<p>Edmonton artist Dana Holst, in her solo exhibition, explores multiple feminine themes of ego, blossoming love, anxiety and self-loathing.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<br \/>\nSometimes Rainbows are Black is a retrospective exhibition including works from Prey and True Romance, two past Holst exhibitions.\u00a0 As well there are new paintings, drawings and a fibre-based installation.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nThe installation, Sometimes Rainbows are Black features a large rainbow rug in shades of mourning.\u00a0 Made of antique wedding dresses painted black, then cut into thin strips, the silk was entirely hooked by hand using historical methods.\u00a0 Monotonous, laborious, ominous, the black rainbow hangs on the wall flanked by June and April, two cut out drawings of girl heads, guardians of hope on a journey to the otherworld.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nPaintings in the show focus on fate as it befalls the lives of young girls caught in the transformation to womanhood.\u00a0 For example, in Self-Loathing an adolescent girl stands with her back to the viewer on her stained and bare mattress, silently contemplating the wallpaper pattern, emanating feelings of loneliness and despair.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nPoignant and theatrical Holst\u2019s new work looks at hope and desire as filtered through destiny and human cruelty\/weakness.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nA catalogue for\u00a0 Sometimes Rainbows are Black will be available the 1st of December 2011.\u00a0 Contact Dana at <a href=\"mailto:info@danaholst.com\">info@danaholst.com<\/a> to request a copy or visit <a href=\"http:\/\/www.danaholst.com\/\">www.danaholst.com<\/a> for further information.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><strong>November 2 \u2013 26, 2011<\/strong><br \/>\nOpening Thursday November 3, 6 &#8211; 9 pm<\/p>\n<p><strong>THE RED HEAD GALLERY<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Edmonton artist Dana Holst, in her solo exhibition, explores multiple feminine themes of ego, blossoming love, anxiety and self-loathing.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-p\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/artoronto.ca\/?p=4706\">Read more &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4711,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4706","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-listings_archive"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/artoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4706","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/artoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/artoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4706"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/artoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4706\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5877,"href":"https:\/\/artoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4706\/revisions\/5877"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/4711"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/artoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4706"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4706"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4706"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}