Street photography taken in Berlin, Wiesbaden & Frankfurt, Germany • London, UK • Boston, MA and Burlington, VT USA with a continued study of our global community, energies of architecture and movement.
24” x 24”, 20” x 20”, 12” x 12” and 7-3/4” x 9-3/4” archival digital photo collages, and mixed media (acrylic, spray paint, graphite) on kozo paper mounted on birch panel
24” x 24” archival digital photo collage and spray paint on kozo paper mounted on birch panel
24” x 24” archival digital photo collage on kozo paper mounted on birch panel
20” x 20” archival digital photo collage and spray paint on kozo paper mounted on birch panel
20” x 20” archival digital photo collage, spray paint and graphite on kozo paper mounted on birch panel
20” x 20” archival digital photo collage and spray paint on kozo paper mounted on birch panel
8 x 8” archival digital photo collage and graphite on kozo paper mounted on birch panel
8” x 8” archival digital photo collage and spray paint on kozo paper mounted on birch panel
8” x 8” archival digital photo collage and spray paint on kozo paper mounted on birch panel
On view at The Current - Member’s Art Show through December 16, 2023.
7-3/4” x 9” archival digital photo collage and spray paint on kozo paper mounted on birch panel.
7-3/4” x 9-3/4” archival digital photo collage and spray paint on kozo paper mounted on birch panel
Street photography taken in Berlin & Wiesbaden, Germany • Florence, Italy • Boston USA with a focus on the energy of people passing in the streets, street art and introspection on the global community.
18” x 18”, 12” x 12” 6” x 6” and 5” x 5” archival digital photo collages, acrylic, spray paint and graphite on kozo paper mounted on birch panel
18” x 18” x 1-1/2” archival digital photo collage and spray paint on kozo paper mounted on birch panel
On view at The Current - Member’s Art Show through December 16, 2023.
18” x 18” x 1-1/2” archival digital photo collage, spray paint and graphite on kozo paper mounted on birch panel
12” x 12” x 1-12” archival digital photo collage, acrylic paint and spray paint on kozo paper mounted on birch panel.
6” x 6” x 1-1/2” archival digital photo collage, acrylic paint and spray paint on kozo paper mounted on birch panel.
5” x 5” x 1” archival digital photo collage and spray paint on kozo paper mounted on birch panel
5” x 5” x 1” archival digital photo collage and spray paint on kozo paper mounted on birch panel.
5” x 5” x 1” archival digital photo collage and spray paint on kozo paper mounted on birch panel
5” x 5”x 1” archival digital photo collage and spray paint on kozo paper mounted on birch panel.
5” x 5” x 1” archival digital photo collage and spray paint on kozo paper mounted on birch panel
5” x 5” x 1” archival digital photo collage and spray paint on kozo paper mounted on birch panel.
5” x 5” x 1” archival digital photo collage, acrylic paint and spray paint on kozo paper mounted on birch panel.
5” x 5” x 1” archival digital photo collage and spray paint on kozo paper mounted on birch panel
5” x 5” x 1” archival digital photo collage, acrylic paint and spray paint on kozo paper mounted on birch panel
5” x 5” x 1” archival digital photo collage, acrylic paint and spray paint on kozo paper mounted on birch panel
5” x 5” x 1” archival digital photo collage and spray paint on kozo paper mounted on birch panel
5” x 5” x 1” archival digital photo collage, acrylic paint and spray paint on kozo paper mounted on birch panel
5” x 5” x 1” archival digital photo collage and spray paint on kozo paper mounted on birch panel
6” x 6” archival digital photo collage and spray paint on kozo paper mounted on birch panel.
6” x 6” archival digital photo collage and spray paint on kozo paper mounted on birch panel.
6” x 6” archival digital photo collage and spray paint and colored pencil on kozo paper mounted on birch panel.
6” x 6” archival digital photo collage and spray paint on kozo paper mounted on birch panel.
6” x 6” archival digital photo collage and acrylic on kozo paper mounted on birch panel.
6” x 6” archival digital photo collage, spray paint and acrylic on kozo paper mounted on birch panel.
Experimental film series designed as an exploration of process, identity and the urban landscape. Videos are often created as site-specific installations.
Continually changing one's perspective is its own form of reVision. This work is a collection of street photography taken while living in Berlin, Germany. A view on a walk through a neighborhood of apartments for travelers from Syria... and a note on a pole "Leave Traces" - sparked thoughts of the importance of leaving one's own unique traces of culture and identity while building a sense of global community. Busy café scenes - people looking outward from their seats. Working, resting, talking. What energy do people eave in a space without ever meeting each other? Abandoned chairs... a forgotten cup of coffee, newspaper, pencil, hat... vacated spaces. Who sat there before... what conversations took place, what secrets were revealed? Disembarking a train, entering a busy platform at the station, two friends arm in arm with very different backgrounds... the theme "All are Welcome", explored a large immersion of new citizens in the city of Berlin in 2017. This video was created for a site-specific installation at the Kent Museum, Calais Vermont - 2019.
Performance by Erika Senft Miller, erikasenftmiller.com
Video by Kelly Holt
Sound by Alder Studio, alder.world
In 2018, Spruce Peak Arts in collaboration with the Helen Day Art Center in Stowe, Vermont, invited Erika Senft Miller to perform in a TEDx-style event series. Senft Miller used photography and video from Kelly Holt, in a performance that addressed the Me Too movement. Senft Miller’s performance specifically honed in on the layered significance of the reclamation of female power in the context of her female ancestor’s history and experience of war.
Barely Touching is a collaboration with artist Susan Calza.
When we agreed to produce this collaborative project entitled “Barely Touching”, we had one basic premise, that this work would reflect our personal reactions to the societal challenges erupting during the year 2020. We envisioned that video would be a main component. And it was obvious that the project would evolve in unexpected ways.
Our videos counterbalance each other. Both address a deep sense of longing and the tension between connection and disconnection in relationship, ie. human, environmental and societal. While Kelly’s work references distance and the ethereal, my own work tends to be close up and visceral. Both pose an open question. “Where are we headed?” Both present unease and challenge and both are threaded through with an underlying reliance on the healing inherent in beauty and the recognition that moving beyond the personal is the only position that can save us and the planet.
Raconteur responds to spacial elements and architectural details, juxtaposed with fleeting images of figures crossing in and out of the frame.The body of work focuses on street photography excursions - mainly in urban locations - both local and European. This video accompanies a photographic series - both follow the trajectory of energy in each given environment. The energy/tension conveyed by the images are intended to suggest something about to happen.
Collaboration with Don Hanson.
Experimental video about creative process, 2017.
Exhibition with Tom Cullins at River Arts, 2016.
Series of street photography and mixed media paintings celebrating architecture and culture of Florence & Venice, Italy.
Photography & Mixed Media (photo transfers with acrylic on Japanese Kozo papers, mounted on Rives BFK paper on birch panels. Varied sizes - see image captions. Created 2008-2021.
20 x 20” archival digital photo collage and spray paint on Kozo paper on panel. Available through The Current - Stowe, VT.
22” 20” archival digital photo and spray paint, collage on Kozo paper on panel.
20 x 20” archival digital photo collage and spray paint on Kozo paper on panel
14 x 11” archival digital photo collage and spray paint on Kozo paper on panel. Available through The Current - Stowe, VT.
30 x 20” archival digital photo collage on Kozo paper on panel
This series depicts figures passing, empty chairs still holding the energies of those that came before. The mood is both mysterious and hopeful.
Barely Touching is a personal response as a member of a global community experiencing a year like no other. Everyone's story is unique and part of collective humanity. These are our stories.
10” x 10” archival digital photo collages, acrylic, spray paint and graphite on kozo paper mounted on birch panel
On view at the Julian Scott Memorial Gallery at Northern Vermont University - Johnson through April 14.
Street photography taken in Berlin & Kassel Germany as well as Burlington Vermont, USA. The work examines relationships, highlighting “the heat” in a given space.
24” x 24”, 8” x 8” and 6” x 6” archival digital photo collages, acrylic, spray paint and graphite on kozo paper mounted on birch panel
24” x 24” archival digital photo collage and spray paint on kozo paper mounted on birch panel.
24” x 24” archival digital photo collage and spray paint on kozo paper mounted on birch panel.
24” x24” archival digital photo collage and spray paint on kozo paper mounted on birch panel.
24” x 24” archival digital photo collage spray paint and graphite on kozo paper mounted on birch panel.
6” x 6” archival digital photo collage and spray paint on kozo paper mounted on birch panel.
6” x 6” archival digital photo collage and spray paint on kozo paper mounted on birch panel.
24” x 24” archival digital photo collage on kozo paper mounted on birch panel.
24” x24” archival digital photo collage spray paint and acrylic on kozo paper mounted on birch panel.
6” x 6” archival digital photo collage and spray paint on kozo paper mounted on birch panel.
8” x ” archival digital photo collage and spray paint on kozo paper mounted on birch panel.
On view at the Julian Scott Memorial Gallery at Northern Vermont University - Johnson through April 14.
8” x 8” archival digital photo collage and spray paint on kozo paper mounted on birch panel.
Street photography taken in Berlin, Germany. A deep dive into the urban landscape, architecture and street art.
Mixed media: photography, paintings, rust, carborundum, mounted on birch panels - some with clear encaustic coating.
Street photography taken in Montreal Canada, Brussels, Belgium and Berlin and Wiesbaden, Germany. Snapshots of the routine of daily life.
Mixed media: photography, paintings, tape, ink, mounted on birch panels - some with clear encaustic coating.
10" x 10" • 8" x 8" • 6" x 6" panel sizes
Black and white archival digital prints • film stills taken in Berlin, Frankfurt, Mainz and Wiesbaden, Germany.
16" x 20"
The body of work is derived from street photography excursions - mainly in urban locations - both local and European. This photographic series follows the trajectory of energy in each given environment with attention to architectural lines and juxtapositions - suggesting stories.
44" x 29" canvas size • 38" x 23" image size
