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Hollis Brown Thornton

GREAT SEA CREATURES & THE EARTH ON THE BACK OF THE GIANT TURTLE

About Me

About me:

My website:

www.hollisbrownthornton.com

My Interests

MY FAVORITE ARTISTS: Cy Twombly, Jean-Michel Basquiat, Japser Johns, Robert Rauschenberg, Tom Wesselmann, Miranda July, David Gordon Green, Anselm Kiefer, George Segal, Wes Anderson, Andy Warhol, Pablo Picasso, Julian Schnabel, Susan Rothenberg, Franz Kline, Marisol, Terry Winters, Robert Ryman, Richard Serra, Matthew Barney, Thornton Dial

I'd like to meet:

Please send a message if you add me as a friend. I get tons of spam friends, so I've gotten cautious about requests.

Music:

MY FAVORITE ALBUMS: Air - Moon Safari ... The Virgin Suicides Soundtrack, Antarctica - 81:03, The Beach Boys - Pet Sounds, Bloc Party - Silent Alarm, Blur - 13, Boards Of Canada - Music Has The Right To Children ... BOC Maxima ... The Campfire Headphase, Bruce Springsteen - The Wild, The Innocent & The E Street Shuffle ... Born To Run, The Chemical Brothers - Surrender, Daft Punk - Homework, The Go! Team - Thunder, Lightening, Strike, Godspeed You Black Emperor! - Lift Your Skinny Fists Like Antennas To Heaven, Goldmund - Corduroy Road, Grant Lee Buffalo - Mighty Joe Moon, Henryk Gorecki - Symphony No. 3, The Jesus & Mary Chain - Psycho Candy, John Cale - Paris 1919, John Barry - Walkabout Soundtrack, Kate Bush - Hounds Of Love ... Never For Ever, M83 - Dead Cities, Red Seas & Lost Ghosts ... Before The Dawn Heals Us, Michael Andrews - Me And You And Everyone We Know Soundtrack, My Bloody Valentine - Loveless, The Narwhal Invasion - If We Were Constellations, Our Sleepless Forest - Our Sleepless Forest, Peter Gabrial - Passion: Music For The Last Temptation Of Christ, PJ Harvey - Dry ... Stories From The City, Stories From The Sea, Primal Scream - XTRMNTR, Pulp - Different Class, R.E.M. - Chronic Town ... Fables Of The Reconstruction ... Life's Rich Pageant ... document·.. Dead Letter Office ... Green, Radiohead - The Bends ... OK Computer ... Kid A, Saturday Looks Good To Me - All Your Summer Songs, Sigur Ros - Agaetis Byrjun, Spiritualized - Ladies And Gentlemen We Are Floating In Space, Supergrass - I Should Coco ... In It For The Money, Vangelis - Chariots Of Fire Soundtrack& Blade Runner Soundtrack, The Wrens - Meadowlands, Yo La Tengo - Painful

Movies:

MY FAVORITES: Walkabout, Barry Lyndon, Picnic At Hanging Rock, Solaris, Rushmore, The Life Aquatic, George Washington, All The Real Girls
OTHERS I REALLY LIKE: 3 Women, 2001: A Space Odyssey, After Hours, Aguirre: The Wrath of God, The Best Of Youth, The Boys of Baraka, Casablanca, Cat On A Hot Tin Roof, Closer, The Cremaster Cycle, Dazed And Confused, The Deer Hunter, The Devil and Daniel Johnston, The Education Of Shelby Knox, Elephant, Fitzcarraldo, The Fog Of War, The Graduate, The Godfather I & II, Gone With The Wind, Grizzly Man, I'm Not Scared, Junebug, Ken Burns' Civil War, Lady Vengeance, The Lion In Winter, Little Miss Sunshine, The Long Hot Summer, Me and You and Everyone We Know, Mean Creek, Munich, Nashville, The New World, Out Of Africa, Paris Texas, Ran, Red Beard, Rear Window, Riding Giants, The Saddest Music In The World, The Science Of Sleep, Shawn Of The Dead, Sunset Boulevard, Thin Red Line, Throne Of Blood, Tsotsi, The War Room, The Wild Parrots Of Telegraph Hill, Wild Strawberries

Television:

The Wonder Years

Books:

A Philosophical Enquiry Into The Origin Of Our Ideas Of The Sublime And Beautiful, Gombrich, Hero With A Thousand Faces, Sproul's Primal Myths, Erdoes & Ortiz's American Indian Myths And Legends, The Fountainhead, Flowers For Algernon, Lord Of The Flies, Walden, School Textbooks

Heroes:

FROM CHILDHOOD TO ADULTHOOD: Don Mattingly, Benjamin Franklin, Rodney Mullen, Michael Stipe, Howard Rowark, Cy Twombly

My Blog

May 9, 2008 Installation

May 9 - May 16, 2008:::::::::: The Earth on the Back of the Giant Turtle, preview exhibition, if ART Gallery, Columbia, SCOpening reception Friday, May 9, 5-10 pm...
Posted by Hollis Brown Thornton on Mon, 12 May 2008 10:28:00 PST

February 2008

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Posted by Hollis Brown Thornton on Tue, 06 May 2008 09:12:00 PST

January 2008

My sketchbook is a 8 x 5 inch Moleskine. I also take my sketchbook apart, so some of these pages are 8 x 10 inches. The materials in these sketches are a combination of graphite, ink jet, magazine c...
Posted by Hollis Brown Thornton on Mon, 04 Feb 2008 07:40:00 PST

December 2007

My sketchbook is a 8 x 5 inch Moleskine. The materials in these sketches are a combination of graphite, permanent marker, and wite-out.I also regularly update my sketchbook images in my FLICKR accoun...
Posted by Hollis Brown Thornton on Thu, 27 Dec 2007 07:00:00 PST

Interview

Artist Interviewing Artist with HBT. Thanks Tim!View interview HEREAnd my incredible friend Eferno translated the interview into French. Thank you Eferno!...
Posted by Hollis Brown Thornton on Sat, 08 Dec 2007 04:08:00 PST

Artemis & Actaeon

From the ongoing series The Earth on the Back of the Giant Turtle.......acrylic, carbon transfer, correction tape, graphite, permanent ink, pigment transfer, wite-out on canvas......14 x 10 inches.......
Posted by Hollis Brown Thornton on Thu, 06 Dec 2007 03:24:00 PST

September 23 - New Work

Thanks Eferno for the drawing (stolen for image 5, no, no, I mean images 6, at the bottom of the black on the right).Thanks Nikki for Andy and the VU.Thanks Anna for the Coke signThese are from my ong...
Posted by Hollis Brown Thornton on Sun, 23 Sep 2007 10:52:00 PST

Thomas Denver Jonsson - The Lake Acts Like An Ocean

Thomas Denver Jonsson is about to release his new album. It is FANTASTIC!!!! Visit Thomas HEREThe rest is from TDJ::::::::::::::::::::::::::CUSTOMERS are free to e-mail [email protected] or msg ...
Posted by Hollis Brown Thornton on Fri, 14 Sep 2007 01:20:00 PST

The Narwhal Invasion - If We Were Constellations

My good friend Matthew released his first album If We Were Constellations on August 21. It is just great great great great..... I've had it for about 9 months and still like it..... a lot. Visit his p...
Posted by Hollis Brown Thornton on Mon, 13 Aug 2007 06:18:00 PST