Hollis Brown Thornton

Hollis Brown Thornton (USA, 1976) was born and raised in Aiken, South Carolina. In spring of 1999, Thornton received his B.F.A. from the University of South Carolina in Columbia, South Carolina. Since August 2005, Thornton has been working out of his warehouse studio in Aiken, SC, as a full time artist. Thornton paints and draws the way memory stores and replicates things in an inaccurate, personal way. In his work, erasure, fragmentation and simplification represent the imperfect, limited nature of memory and the constant notion of flux in the physical and digital world. Thornton wants to replicate the transitional state between the past and the unknown and focus on the idea of being in a perpetual state of potential.

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• There's Still Time, Florence County Museum - Florence, SC, 2018
• A Long Time Ago, Gauntlet Gallery - San Francisco, CA, 2015
• The Land Between Solar Systems, Linda Warren Gallery - Chicago, IL, 2013
• Unexplained Mysteries of the Universe, Aisho Miura Arts - Tokyo, Japan, 2012
• 2 Year Anniversary Exhibition at POVevolving Gallery - Los Angeles, 2010
• Hollis Brown Thornton: The Geography of Space at Sumter County Gallery of Art - Sumter, SC, 2009
• The Earth on the Back of the Giant Turtle at Linda Warren Gallery - Chicago, IL, 2008

• University of South Carolina, BFA - Columbia, SC,1999 

• Notastereotupe Interview - May 5, 2010
• Sycamore Street Press Interview - April 8, 2010
• Designious Times Interview - April 7, 2010