The Art of Hollie Dilley

The work of Hollie Dilley, a native of New York, is inspired by dreams and imagination. One of the major themes running through Hollie’s work is “warming the face of industrial design.”

Hollie enjoys using all of the several mediums she has been trained in, and mixing those mediums to create the desired effect (for example, making a mold to later be cast in bronze). She appreciates the industrial feel of copper tubing and metal doors, mixed with the softness of clay, as well as fabric and textures.

Hollie has found glass to be a useful tool that reflects the importance of a piece through encasement, or utilizing the medium to underscore the transparency of certain parts of a piece to let light through. She fully grasps light as an artistic element—not necessarily as function, but as illusion to achieve drama.

Educated at Humboldt State University, Hollie begins with an idea but allows the medium to take on its own life as she goes. Each piece she creates is unique and created only once.