About Holly Harris

Holly Harris is an artist from Greensboro, North Carolina, currently based in Washington, D.C. She primarily works in printmaking and oil painting, with occasional ventures into other mediums. She received a BA in Studio Art from the University of North Carolina in 2019, where she concentrated on painting but discovered a love of linocut relief printing. Her work can frequently be found in exhibitions in D.C., and she is additionally interested in editorial illustration on a commission basis. She made her editorial debut creating seven linocut illustrations to accompany the chapters of Andrew DeCort's "Flourishing on the Edge of Faith," published in 2022. Much of Harris’ work illustrates her own grappling with the tensions of relationship: how we relate to self, to the divine, and to one another in a complex, globalized world.

Her prints often incorporate text, highlighting current existential and political stressors in an increasingly violent world. She either depicts the world ruled by hyperindividuality and late stage capitalism, or offers a reprieve from it by centering women and the care, safety, and community fostered in spite of it. For her subjects, friends function as muse, her works offering an intimate glimpse into specific moments in time. Still, viewers are left with the impression of an onlooker, understanding they are invited in but only to the extent the subject allows, the agency of the muse intact.