The Approach is pleased to present the first UK exhibition by the LA based sculptor Evan Holloway. 
Holloway’s sculptures playfully manipulate proportions and perspective, altering and challenging the viewers spatial relationship with his work. Holloway traces a history of materials and movements within contemporary art history and mixes them up with popular culture references and his own idiosyncratic wit and West Coast style. In this show, Californian commercial mysticism meets high modernist aesthetics.

Works at The Approach include One Second  which features a life size figure in a pretzel yoga position hovering above the ground. Attached to the head of the figure is a sculpture with a mid-century modernist character. Together they balance on one point, seemingly defying gravity in a theatrical display of gift shop physics. Another sculpture runs dangerously close to some ham-fisted leisure craft project by using a large number of painted face casts. Partially obscured by glass, these faces become a fleshy blur, which sit on a glass and steel hybrid between a set of nesting coffee tables and a modern sculpture. A third sculpture titled The Sculpture That Goes With the Bank places a corporate sculpture next to a scale model of a bank at Western Avenue and Olympic Boulevard. But this is a corporate sculpture with a mind of its own, made from a single strand of metal it dramatically out grows its pedestal, twisting and turning through space to take on gigantic proportions.

Holloway has participated in several group exhibitions including Caught, 303 Gallery, New York, 1999, Mise En Scene - New LA Sculpture, Santa Monica Museum of Art, 2000, and the forthcoming The Americans - New Art, Barbican, London. He has also had solo shows at Marc Foxx, Los Angeles, and Raucci Santamaria, Naples.