Artist Biography
Hollis Sigler used a faux naive style to execute narrative paintings, drawings, and prints. In 1985 Sigler began a collaboration with Master Printer Bud Shark to produce monoprints, lithographs, three-dimensional lithographs, and woodcuts that are intensely personal and emotionally complex. Often her prints depict unpeopled rooms and landscapes filled with scattered objects left behind by the artist’s unseen heroine, “The Lady.”
In the collection of drawings titled The Breast Cancer Journal, and the lithograph, Being on the Edge of Hope, Each Day Brings Us Closer to Victory, Sigler explored the psychological, social, and political implications of the breast cancer epidemic. The artist’s goal was to increase public awareness of breast cancer and offer a message of hope.
Her final print project at Shark’s was a suite of four lithographs with woodcut and chine collé borders titled Suite for the Gods. In these prints Sigler used metaphoric images from nature and the spiritual life to confront and accept her own mortality.
Hollis Sigler’s Breast Cancer Journal, an artist book with essays by the artist, Dr. Susan Love, and the art critic James Yood was published by Hudson Hills Press in 1999. Sigler was Professor of Art at Columbia College in Chicago. Just prior to her death she received a lifetime achievement award from the College Art Association.
Selected Collections: High Museum of Art, Atlanta, GA; The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL; Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore, MD; Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY; Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, WA.
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Prints by the Artist
