12/12/2024
New art at MoonRise Gallery this month...
Holly Tharnish
Just a Reminder
Watercolor
12x15
Holly Tharnish
Happy Golden Days
Graphite, charcoal, colored pencil
12x15
Holly Tharnish lives and works in Omaha, Nebraska. She received her Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from the University of Nebraska-Omaha with a minor in art history in 2019. She attended UNO with a Susan Thompson Buffett Foundation Scholarship. During her time at UNO, she was featured in multiple student exhibitions, earned a Bertha Mengedoht Hatz Memorial Scholarship for Artistic Excellence as well as a Wanda Ewing Memorial Scholarship. She was the 2018-2019 Vice President of the UNO Art Club and curated student exhibitions for the organization. In 2018, Holly helped create Benson’s Oceanside Mural near the intersection of Maple and 63rd streets. Holly’s first solo exhibition at the Florence Mill Museum and Art-Loft Gallery commenced in September 2019 as the year’s recipient of the Conner Meigs Art Award. The show focused on her own self-realization within the scope of her vast family history.
Her work examines themes of history and heritage, introspection and identity, womanhood, memories, and the contrasts between the world we live in, the stories we tell, and the narratives we keep inside our minds.
