Holland Houdek

Jeweller / Klimt02MemberAtMJW2018

Published: 18.02.2020

Holland Houdek

: New York
UNITED STATES

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Holland Houdek
Necklace: Cordycepts, 2019
Hand fabricated copper, 20 Swarovski crystals, patina.
44 x 17 x 2 cm
Photo by: Tom Burazin

Specially created for the international exhibition Site Effects.

Holland Houdek
Necklace: Cordycepts, 2019
Hand fabricated copper, 20 Swarovski crystals, patina.
44 x 17 x 2 cm
Photo by: Tom Burazin

Back view.

Specially created for the international exhibition Site Effects.

Holland Houdek
Neckpiece: Renal Disruptions, 2019
Hand-fabricated copper, Swarovski crystals (101), pearls, bead-blasted, patina.
43 x 17 x 5 cm
Photo by: Scott Hamilton

Victorian Kidney Stones Neckpiece.

Specially created for the international exhibition Site Effects.

Holland Houdek
Neckpiece: Renal Disruptions, 2019
Hand-fabricated copper, Swarovski crystals (101), pearls, bead-blasted, patina.
43 x 17 x 5 cm
Photo by: Scott Hamilton

Back view.

Victorian Kidney Stones Neckpiece.

Specially created for the international exhibition Site Effects.

Holland Houdek
Neckpiece: Device 72, Syringe, 2019
Hand-fabricated copper, plastic tube, Swarovski crystals (104), etched, powder coat, patina.
20 x 19 x 6 cm
Photo by: Tom Burazin
From series: Instrumental
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Holland Houdek
Neckpiece: Device 63B, Bone Screw, 2019
Hand-fabricated copper, pierced, bone screw, Swarovski crystals (363), powder coat, patina.
53 x 5 x 5 cm
Photo by: Tom Burazin
From series: Instrumental
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Alternative view.

Holland Houdek
Object: Device 57A, Nebulizer, 2018
Hand-fabricated copper, raised, pierced, nebulizer, plastic tube, Swarovski crystals (134), etched, powder coat, patina.
10.75 x 60 x 12.75 cm
Photo by: Tom Burazin
From series: Instrumental
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Alternative viewpoint.

Holland Houdek
Object: Spoked Shoulder Anthroplasty (Complex Shoulder Anthroplasty), 2018
Hand-fabricated copper, raised, pierced, Swarovski crystals (524), bead-blasted, patina.
15 x 24 x 17 cm
Photo by: Tom Burazin
From series: Hyperbolic (Implants Series III)
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Back view.

Holland Houdek
Object: Nelumbo Mastoplasty (Lotus Breast Implant), 2017
Hand-fabricated copper, silicone breast implant, Swarovski crystals (621), pierced, bead-blasted, patina.
Photo by: Tom Burazin
From series: Hyperbolic (Implants Series III)
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Alternative view.

Holland Houdek
Object: Cardiovascular Complex, 2017
Hand-fabricated copper, Swarovski crystals (475), pierced, bead-blasted, patina.
25 x 22 x 12 cm
Photo by: Tom Burazin
From series: Hyperbolic
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Holland Houdek
Object: Cardiovascular Complex, 2017
Hand-fabricated copper, Swarovski crystals (475), pierced, bead-blasted, patina.
25 x 22 x 12 cm
Photo by: Tom Burazin
From series: Hyperbolic

Alternative view.

Holland Houdek
Object: Cardiovascular Complex, 2017
Hand-fabricated copper, Swarovski crystals (475), pierced, bead-blasted, patina.
25 x 22 x 12 cm
Photo by: Tom Burazin
From series: Hyperbolic

Side view.

Holland Houdek
Object: Spinal Axis Deviation, 2017
Hand-fabricated copper, copper fittings, Swarovski crystals (2306), pierced, raised, bead-blasted, patina.
15 x 34 x 22 cm
Photo by: Tom Burazin
From series: Hyperbolic
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Alternative view.

Holland Houdek
Object: Triple-Cupped Acetabulum (Shoulder Replacement), 2016
Copper, Glass
21 x 23 x 15 cm
Photo by: Tom Burazin
From series: Hyperbolic (Implants Series III)
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Holland Houdek
Object: Triple-Cupped Acetabulum (Shoulder Replacement), 2016
Copper, Glass
21 x 23 x 15 cm
Photo by: Tom Burazin
From series: Hyperbolic (Implants Series III)

Back side

Holland Houdek
Object: Triple-Cupped Acetabulum (Shoulder Replacement), 2016
Copper, Glass
21 x 23 x 15 cm
Photo by: Tom Burazin
From series: Hyperbolic (Implants Series III)

Top look

Holland Houdek
Object: Triple-Cupped Acetabulum (Shoulder Replacement), 2016
Copper, Glass
21 x 23 x 15 cm
Photo by: Tom Burazin
From series: Hyperbolic (Implants Series III)

Front look

Holland Houdek
Object: Intestinal Apparatus (Intestines Replacement), 2017
Hand-fabricated copper, copper fittings, Swarovski crystals (686), pierced, raised, bead-blasted, patina.
28 x 18 x 13 cm
Photo by: Tom Burazin
From series: Hyperbolic (Implants Series III)
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Back side

Front look

Holland Houdek
Object: Cardiotubular Apparatus (Heart Replacement), 2017
Hand-fabricated copper, Swarovski crystals (558), pierced, bead-blasted, patina
11 x 15 x 11 cm
Photo by: Tom Burazin
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Holland Houdek
Object: Cardiotubular Apparatus (Heart Replacement), 2017
Hand-fabricated copper, Swarovski crystals (558), pierced, bead-blasted, patina
11 x 15 x 11 cm
Photo by: Tom Burazin

Side view

Holland Houdek
Object: Cardiotubular Apparatus (Heart Replacement), 2017
Hand-fabricated copper, Swarovski crystals (558), pierced, bead-blasted, patina
11 x 15 x 11 cm
Photo by: Tom Burazin

Close up back view

Holland Houdek
Object: Cadaveric Hepactic Transplantation (Liver Replacement), 2016
Hand-fabricated copper, pierced, Swarovski crystals (504), bead-blasted, patina
4 x 15 x 12 cm
Photo by: Tom Burazin

Wearable object with chain

Top view

Side view

Holland Houdek
Object: Inverted Illium with Offset Coccyx (Total Hip Arthoplasty), 2016
Hand-fabricated copper, raised, pierced, Swarovski crystals (1,127), bead-blasted, patina
9 x 18 x 18 cm
Photo by: Tom Burazin

Wearable object with chain

Front view

Side view

Holland Houdek
Object: Cardiotubular Apparatus (Heart Replacement), 2016
Hand-fabricated copper, Swarovski crystals (558), pierced, bead-blasted, patina
Photo by: Tom Burazin
From series: Hyperbolic (Implants Series III)
© By the author. Read Klimt02.net Copyright.

Side view

Holland Houdek
Object: Displaced Renal Fixture (Kidney Replacement), 2016
Hand-fabricated copper, pierced, Swarovski crystals (562), bead-blasted, patina.
28 x 22 x 4 cm
Photo by: Tom Burazin
From series: Hyperbolic (Implants Series III)
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Holland Houdek
Object: Cerebrum C. Cristata (Cerebellum Replacement), 2016
Hand-fabricated copper, pierced, Swarovski crystals (218), bead-blasted, patina
13 x 17 x 15 cm
Photo by: Tom Burazin
From series: Hyperbolic (Implants Series III)
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Side view

Top view

Holland Houdek
Object: Pinnacle Shell with Threefold Form (Triple Hip Replacement),, 2017
Hand-fabricated copper, raised, pierced, Swarovski crystals (2,466), bead-blasted, patina
17 x 31 x 13 cm
Photo by: Tom Burazin
From series: Hyperbolic (Implants Series III)
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Side view right

Side view left

Holland Houdek
Object: Overlayed Pulmonary with Pneumothorax (Double Lung with Collapse), 2017
Hand-fabricated copper, pierced, rubber, Swarovski crystals (1,309), bead-blasted, patina
9 x 17 x 18 cm
Photo by: Tom Burazin
From series: Hyperbolic (Implants Series III)
© By the author. Read Klimt02.net Copyright.

Side view right.

Back view.

Holland Houdek
Object: Disconnected Intervertebral Segment (Spinal Disc Replacement), 2016
Hand-fabricated copper, pierced, Swarovski crystals (291), bead-blasted, patina.
8 x 15 x 9 cm
Photo by: Tom Burazin
From series: Hyperbolic (Implants Series III)
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Back view

Holland Houdek
Object: Asymmetrical Mammoplasty (Double Breast Implant), 2015
Hand-fabricated copper, pierced, silicone breast implants, Swarovski crystals (1,267), bead-blasted, patina.
4 x 27 x 18 cm
Photo by: Tom Burazin
From series: Hyperbolic. (Implants Series III)
© By the author. Read Klimt02.net Copyright.

Detail view.

Holland Houdek
Object: Encrusted Penile RESerection (Penile Implant), 2015
Hand-fabricated copper, pierced, penile implant, Swarovski crystals (1,106), bead-blasted, patina.
3 x 25 x 28 cm
Photo by: Tom Burazin
From series: Hyperbolic. (Implants Series III)
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Detail view.

Holland Houdek
Object: Head of Humerus with Glenoid Surface (Shoulder Replacement), 2015
Hand-fabricated copper, Swarovski crystals (285), bead-blasted, patina.
5 x 14 x 16 cm
Photo by: Tom Burazin
From series: Hyperbolic. (Implants Series III)

Casting from John Michael Kohler Arts/Industry Residency.

Detail view.

Casting from John Michael Kohler Arts/Industry Residency.

Detail view.

Casting from John Michael Kohler Arts/Industry Residency.

Holland Houdek
Object: Femoral Stem with Rheumatoid Nodules (Hip Replacement), 2015
Hand-fabricated copper, Swarovski crystals (453), bead-blasted, patina.
4 x 19 x 9 cm
Photo by: Tom Burazin
From series: Hyperbolic. (Implants Series III)
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Detail view.

Holland Houdek
Object: Cardio Pulmonary Pump (Heart Valve Replacement), 2015
Hand-fabricated copper, Swarovski crystals (453), bead-blasted, patina.
4 x 18 x 5 cm
Photo by: Tom Burazin
From series: Hyperbolic. (Implants Series III)
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Detail view.

Holland Houdek
Object: Elevated Triple Mitosis (Artificial Cell Replacement), 2015
Hand-fabricated copper, raised, pierced, Swarovski crystals (1,017), bead-blasted, patina.
11 x 14 x 14 cm
Photo by: Tom Burazin
From series: Hyperbolic. (Implants Series III)
© By the author. Read Klimt02.net Copyright.

Top view.

Side view.

Holland Houdek
Object: Extended Articular Component (Knee Replacement), 2015
Hand-fabricated copper, pierced, Swarovski crystals (1,164), bead-blasted, patina.
5 x 9 x 9 cm
Photo by: Tom Burazin
From series: Hyperbolic. (Implants Series III)
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Back view.

Up side down view.

Holland Houdek
Object: Modular Cranial Fixation (Cranial Plate), 2015
Hand-fabricated copper, pierced, brass drain fitting, Swarovski crystals (297), bead-blasted, patina.
3 x 11 x 11 cm
Photo by: Tom Burazin
From series: Hyperbolic. (Implants Series III)
© By the author. Read Klimt02.net Copyright.

Top view.

Side view.

Back view.

Holland Houdek
Object: Study I (Triple Hip Replacement), 2015
Hand-fabricated and lathed waxes, sand and urethane molds, welded cast iron, enamel, rust.
8 x 23 x 15 cm
Photo by: Kohler Staff
From series: Ox(ss)id(ific)ation (Implants Series V)

Created at John Michael Kohler Arts/Industry Program.

Detail view.

Created at John Michael Kohler Arts/Industry Program.

Holland Houdek
Object: Study II (Hip & Knee Replacement), 2015
Hand-fabricated and lathed waxes, sand and urethane molds, welded cast iron, enamel, rust.
7 x 19 x 6 cm
Photo by: Kohler Staff
From series: Ox(ss)id(ific)ation (Implants Series V)

Created at John Michael Kohler Arts/Industry Program.

Upside down view.

Created at John Michael Kohler Arts/Industry Program.

Holland Houdek
Object: Study III (Double Knee Replacement), 2015
Hand-fabricated and lathed waxes, sand and urethane molds, welded cast iron, enamel, rust.
6 x 8 x 8 cm
Photo by: Kohler Staff
From series: Ox(ss)id(ific)ation (Implants Series V)

Created at John Michael Kohler Arts/Industry Program.

Alternative view.

Created at John Michael Kohler Arts/Industry Program.

Holland Houdek
Object: Study IV (Shoulder & Hip Replacement), 2015
Hand-fabricated and lathed waxes, sand and urethane molds, welded cast iron, enamel, rust.
7 x 20 x 14 cm
Photo by: Kohler Staff
From series: Ox(ss)id(ific)ation (Implants Series V)

Created at John Michael Kohler Arts/Industry Program.

Alternative view.

Created at John Michael Kohler Arts/Industry Program.

Holland Houdek
Object: Study VI (Triple Hip Replacement), 2015
Hand-fabricated and lathed waxes, sand and urethane molds, welded cast iron, enamel, rust
10 x 18 x 11 cm
Photo by: Kohler Staff
From series: Ox(ss)id(ific)ation (Implants Series V)
Created at John Michael Kohler Arts/Industry Program
© By the author. Read Klimt02.net Copyright.

Alternative view.

Created at John Michael Kohler Arts/Industry Program
© By the author. Read Klimt02.net Copyright.

Holland Houdek
Object: Study VIII (Hip & Knee Replacement), 2015
Hand-fabricated and lathed waxes, sand and urethane molds, welded cast iron, enamel, rust.
8 x 23 x 10 cm
Photo by: Kohler Staff
From series: Ox(ss)id(ific)ation (Implants Series V)

Created at John Michael Kohler Arts/Industry Program.

Alternative view.

Created at John Michael Kohler Arts/Industry Program.

Holland Houdek
Object: Study X (Double Knee Replacement), 2015
Hand-fabricated and lathed waxes, sand and urethane molds, welded cast iron, enamel, rust.
4 x 15 x 6 cm
Photo by: Kohler Staff
From series: Ox(ss)id(ific)ation (Implants Series V)

Created at John Michael Kohler Arts/Industry Program.

Holland Houdek
Object: Study XI (Triple Hip Replacement), 2015
Hand-fabricated and lathed waxes, sand and urethane molds, welded cast iron, enamel, rust.
5 x 19 x 14 cm
Photo by: Kohler Staff
From series: Ox(ss)id(ific)ation (Implants Series V)

Created at John Michael Kohler Arts/Industry Program.

Holland Houdek
Object: Study XIV (Double Hip Replacement), 2015
Hand-fabricated and lathed waxes, sand and urethane molds, welded cast iron, enamel, rust.
4 x 27 x 15 cm
Photo by: Kohler Staff
From series: Ox(ss)id(ific)ation (Implants Series V)

Created at John Michael Kohler Arts/Industry Program.

Holland Houdek
Object: Study XVI (Double Knee Replacement), 2015
Hand-fabricated and lathed waxes, sand and urethane molds, welded cast iron, enamel, rust.
5 x 24 x 10 cm
Photo by: Kohler Staff
From series: Ox(ss)id(ific)ation (Implants Series V)

Created at John Michael Kohler Arts/Industry Program.

Alternative view.

Created at John Michael Kohler Arts/Industry Program.

Holland Houdek
Object: Study XVII (Double Shoulder Replacement), 2015
Hand-fabricated and lathed waxes, sand and urethane molds, welded cast iron, enamel, rust.
4 x 13 x 8 cm
Photo by: Kohler Staff
From series: Ox(ss)id(ific)ation (Implants Series V)

Created at John Michael Kohler Arts/Industry Program.

Alternative view.

Created at John Michael Kohler Arts/Industry Program.

Holland Houdek
Installation: Mechanization, 2016
Hand-fabricated and lathed waxes, sand and urethane molds, cast iron.
8 x 183 x 122 cm
Photo by: Kohler Staff
From series: Implants Series IV

Created at John Michael Kohler Arts/Industry Program.

Holland Houdek
Installation: Mechanization, 2016
Hand-fabricated and lathed waxes, sand and urethane molds, cast iron.
8 x 183 x 122 cm
Photo by: Kohler Staff
From series: Implants Series IV

Detail view.

Created at John Michael Kohler Arts/Industry Program.

Holland Houdek
Object: Submammary Pectoral Plate (breast implant), 2015
Hand-fabricated copper, pierced, silicone breast implant, Swarovski crystals (681), bead-blasted, patina.
13 x 13 x 4 cm
Photo by: Tom Burazin
From series: Implants Series III
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Side view.

Back view.

Holland Houdek
Object: Porous Femoral Component (hip replacement), 2015
Hand-fabricated copper, raised, pierced, Champlevé enamel and resin, bead-blasted, patina.
28 x 10 x 10 cm
Photo by: Tom Burazin
From series: Implants Series III
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Alternative view.

Holland Houdek
Object: Double Tracheosotoma (larynx replacement), 2015
Hand-fabricated copper, Swarovski crystals (295), bead-blasted, patina.
7 x 15 x 3 cm
Photo by: Tom Burazin
From series: Implants Series III
© By the author. Read Klimt02.net Copyright.

Detail view.

Holland Houdek
Object: Acetabular Cup with Encrusted Liner (acetabular component for a hip replacement), 2015
Hand-fabricated copper, pierced, Swarovski crystals (878), bead-blasted, patina
18 x 13 x 13 cm
Photo by: Tom Burazin
From series: Implants Series III
© By the author. Read Klimt02.net Copyright.

Top view.

Back view.

Holland Houdek
Object: Atlas Posterior Column (spinal replacement), 2015
Hand-fabricated copper, pierced, Swarovski crystals (878), bead-blasted, patina.
18 x 7 x 7 cm
Photo by: Tom Burazin
From series: Implants Series III
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Holland Houdek
Object: Hip Replacement – Mrs. Kleinjan, 2013
Hand-fabricated copper, nickel plated
23 x 4 x 4 cm
Photo by: Tom Burazin
From series: Of A Particular Kind, Implants Series II
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Holland Houdek
Object: Shoulder Replacement – Mrs. Bjerk, 2013
Hand-fabricated copper, nickel plated.
14 x 5 x 5 cm
Photo by: Tom Burazin
From series: Of A Particular Kind, Implants Series II
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Holland Houdek
Object: Shoulder Replacement – Mrs. Bjerk, 2013
Hand-fabricated copper, nickel plated.
14 x 5 x 5 cm
Photo by: Tom Burazin
From series: Of A Particular Kind, Implants Series II

Side view.

Holland Houdek
Object: Shoulder Replacement – Mrs. Bjerk, 2013
Hand-fabricated copper, nickel plated.
14 x 5 x 5 cm
Photo by: Tom Burazin
From series: Of A Particular Kind, Implants Series II

X-Ray view.

Holland Houdek
Object: Spinal Disc Replacement – Mr. Chalmers, 2013
Hand-fabricated copper, nickel plated.
3 x 5 x 5 cm
Photo by: Tom Burazin
From series: Of A Particular Kind, Implants Series II
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Side view.

X-Ray view.

Holland Houdek
Object: Femoral Component Mr. Ramos, 2013
Hand-fabricated copper, nickel plated.
6 x 8 x 6 cm
Photo by: Tom Burazine
From series: Of A Particular Kind, Implants Series II
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Holland Houdek
Object: Femoral Component Mr. Ramos, 2013
Hand-fabricated copper, nickel plated.
6 x 8 x 6 cm
Photo by: Tom Burazine
From series: Of A Particular Kind, Implants Series II

X-Ray view, left object.

Holland Houdek
Object: Tibial Base Plate – Mr. Ramos, 2013
Hand-fabricated copper, nickel plated.
6 x 8 x 4 cm
Photo by: Tom Burazin
From series: Of A Particular Kind, Implants Series II
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Holland Houdek
Object: Tibial Base Plate – Mr. Ramos, 2013
Hand-fabricated copper, nickel plated.
6 x 8 x 4 cm
Photo by: Tom Burazin
From series: Of A Particular Kind, Implants Series II

Side view.

Holland Houdek
Object: Stemmed Tibial Baseplate – Mrs. Wagner (Knee Replacement), 2013
Hand-fabricated copper, nickel plated.
4 x 6 x 6 cm
Photo by: Tom Burazin
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Holland Houdek
Object: Stemmed Tibial Baseplate – Mrs. Wagner (Knee Replacement), 2013
Hand-fabricated copper, nickel plated.
4 x 6 x 6 cm
Photo by: Tom Burazin

Side view.

Holland Houdek
Object: Acetabular Component – Ms. Webster (Hip Socket Replacement), 2013
Hand-fabricated copper, nickel plated.
5 x 5 x 5 cm
Photo by: Tom Burazin
From series: Of A Particular Kind, Implants Series II
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Side view.

Holland Houdek
Object: Knee Pin – Mr. Chao, 2013
Hand-fabricated copper, nickel plated.
20 x 1 x 1 cm
Photo by: Tom Burazin
From series: Of A Particular Kind, Implants Series II
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Holland Houdek
Object: one Screw – Mr. Magoro, 2013
Hand-fabricated copper, nickel plated
7 x 1 x 1 cm
Photo by: Tom Burazin
From series: Of A Particular Kind, Implants Series II
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Holland Houdek
Brooch: Laryngectomy Tube (Removal of the Larynx Brooch), 2012
Hand-fabricated copper, nickel silver, nickel plated, silver chain
10 x 8 x 3 cm
Photo by: Tom Burazin
From series: Implants
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Holland Houdek
Neckpiece: Hip Implants with Femoral Heads (Hip Replacement Neckpiece), 2012
Hand-fabricated pewter, nickel plated, dog-tag ball chain
18 x 17 x 5 cm
Photo by: Tom Burazin
From series: Implants
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Holland Houdek
Neckpiece: Laryngectomy Tubes Neckpiece, Removal of the Larynx Neckpiece, 2012
Hand-fabricated copper, nickel plated
33 x 30 x 3 cm
Photo by: Tom Burazing
From series: Implants
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Holland Houdek
Brooch: Hip Implant with Femoral Head, Hip Replacement Brooch, 2012
Hand-fabricated pewter, copper, nickel silver, nickel plated
18 x 8 x 5 cm
Photo by: Tom Burazin
From series: Implants
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Holland Houdek
Brooch: Tibial Baseplate (Knee Implant Brooch), 2012
Hand-fabricated pewter, copper, nickel silver, nickel plated
8 x 8 x 4 cm
Photo by: Tom Burazin
From series: Implants
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Holland Houdek
Brooch: Tibial Baseplate (Knee Implant Brooch), 2012
Hand-fabricated pewter, copper, nickel silver, nickel plated
8 x 8 x 4 cm
Photo by: Tom Burazin
From series: Implants

Side view.

Holland has exhibited in galleries and museums throughout the United States and internationally in Austria, Canada, China, France, Germany, Italy, Lithuania, Mexico, Morocco, Spain, Switzerland, and Taiwan. Her work has been published in Metalsmith Magazine, American Craft, two Lark Books’ 500 Series, On Body and Soul: Contemporary Armor to Amulets, SNAG’s A Body Adorned, Contemporary Jewelry in China, CAST, and elsewhere. She is the recipient of numerous best in show and other competitive awards, and was a finalist in the inaugural Burke Prize at the Museum of Modern Arts and Design. She is a former John Michael Kohler Arts/Industry resident, was the 2014-2015 Visiting Artist-in-Residence at the University of Iowa, and has also participated in artist residencies in Morocco and Berlin.

Statement

My work to date has focused on medical implants, the body, and embodied experience. Working closely with the medical industry and using real donated medical implants as inspiration, I aim to glorify and complicate the highly individual and personal nature of prosthesis and surgeries. To these ends, my work evokes notions of memento mori for the modern age, and comments on the fragile nature of life in a time marked by speed, medical advancements, and deferred death. My body of work aims to re-invent and exaggerate these medical devices, centering my themes on imagined future bodies, mass production and the mechanization of the medical industry, and the strangeness of embodiment in the contemporary world.

Instrumental Series
Surgical tools of the past have long captured the public imagination as objects of intrigue and macabre fascination. Whether featured in cabinets of curiosity or medical museums, these devices evoke feelings of enticement and terror regarding their purposes and what these procedures must have felt like on a living body. This series of hand-fabricated medical instruments explore these devices as objects of art. Each piece draws out the tensions between the macabre and menacing versus the whimsical and alluring, as the playful colors contrast and help to alleviate the terrifying possibilities that you are about to die. They both exist in the future by conceptualizing a new type of anatomy and ways to mend the body, while also gesturing to the historical genre of memento mori objects and design.

Ox(ss)id(ific)ation (Implants Series V)
Medical implants are human-made devices intended to replace, support, or enhance a biological structure. As objects of art, however, they take on a life of their own. They no longer require the body to give them purpose, or to determine their shape, design or material make-up. New forms can give them new life, and yet, they can never truly escape the body, for it is always implied by their very existence. This series animates medical implants through its hybrid bone-like forms, while intimating the connections between rust and blood, and oxidation with the aging of both metal and bodies.
(Series Completed at the John Michael Kohler Arts/Industry program in Spring 2015)

Mechanization (Implant Series IV)
Medical devices were casted and mass produced using raw, foundational materials in an industrial setting. Mass production is typically associated with abundance, access, and affordability, but the power of abundance takes on new significance when the objects produced are unusable and even life-threatening if put into the body; biocompatibility dictates that only certain metals can be used for implanted medical devices, usually platinum or titanium. Thus, the work in this series illuminates the paradox of an intentionally un-usable mass produced set of medical objects. It asks viewers to think about abundance for abundance’s sake, and for considering what a precious and personal object means when mass produced in a raw material and presented in a gallery setting.
(Series Completed at the John Michael Kohler Arts/Industry program in Spring 2015)

Hyperbolic (Implant Series III)
This series focuses on medical implants, the body, and embodied experience. These hand-fabricated objects glorify the highly individual and personal nature of prosthesis and surgeries, while evoking notions of memento mori and the fragile nature of the human form. Using real medical implants as inspiration, I have re-invented and exaggerated these devices for imagined bodies. The intention is for viewers to consider their own physicality and to visualize the absent anatomies implied by the work.

Of A Particular Kind (Implants Series II)
This series comments on the highly individual and personal nature of medical surgeries and the power that medical implants have on an individual’s life. Access to such surgeries is a privilege that billions worldwide do not have. Due to this disparity, people have traveled great distances and fought against great hardships to obtain medical devices or find medical solutions for a loved one, often to no avail. As such, medical implants become highly politicized, contested, and profound objects that have immeasurable material and personal value. Through hand-fabrication and aestheticization, this work explores these tensions by exposing and glorifying what is commonly left unseen.

Implants Series
Medical implants have the power to sustain and improve life. However, due to strict governmental regulations in the US, many of these devices “expire” despite being perfectly usable. Others are recalled due to adverse bodily affects. Furthermore, the US is the largest exporter of medical implants to developing and third world countries that are in desperate need of such medical solutions. Unfortunately, the delivery of these implants is often made problematic by bureaucratic entanglements, black market interventions, high tariffs, and prolonged testing procedures. Such complications cost countless lives every year. This series of work glorifies these powerful medical objects and aims to raise awareness of the complex issues that result in these implants never making it into the body to serve their necessary purpose.

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Events

Publications

Magazine: NOD: Not Only Blah Blah. Vol.2. NOD: Not Only Decoration. Not Only Decoration: Idar-Oberstein, 2019

Book: Ausgezeichnet! most excellent!. Bruhn, Ines. Arnoldsche Art Publishers: Germany, 2016
p.106

Website: Repurposing and Recycling: The Small Objects of Elizabeth Shaw. Charles Zuber. 2016

Book: CAST (forthcoming curated collection). Townsend, Jen and Zettle-Sterling, Reneé. Schiffer Publishing: Atglen, 2016

Book: Taiwan International Crafts Competition. 2015
E-book

Catalogue: Contemporary Jewelry in China. 2015
Exhibition location: Beijing, China

Book: On Body and Soul: Contemporary Armor to Amulets. Susan Ramlijak. Schiffer Publishing: Atglen, 2014

Magazine: Urban Coco. Leeds, 2013
Issue 8, June 2013

Catalogue: Wichita Nat’l All Media Craft Exhibition. Kansas, 2013
Venue: Wichita Center for the Arts, Wichita, KS, USA

Book: Art Buzz. 2013
2013 Collecction

Book: Body Adorned. a SNAG publication: 2012
Juried by Gail Brown.

Magazine: Susanne Hammer, FAULT LINES. 2012
Schmuckmagazin online

Magazine: Ketten. Susanne Hammer. 2011
Nevertheless, Vienna, S.124 - 131

Book: New Rings, 500+ Designs from around the World. Estrada, Nicolas. Thames & Hudson: London, 2011

Book: Collecting Butterflies. Johansson, Karin. Karin Johansson: Gothenburg, 2011
This book is published to coincide with Karin Johansson’s solo exhibition at the Röhsska Museum for Fashion, Design and Decorative Arts in Gothenburg in October 2011.

Book: De Omkering. 2003
Numbered edition, 500 copies, 35 euro shipping included