My work explores line and space through etched permanence, reconstruction, and transformation. The prints contain orderly and gestural components to convey rhythmic structures and systems. I have a vested interest in music performance and phenomenological listening, and these are points of inspiration for the visual ideas; these intaglio works come into being through the energy of etched marks, reiteration of abstract visual vocabulary, and subtle tonal variations.

Tony Holmquist was born in San Francisco, California and raised in Omaha, Nebraska. Tony is a visual artist/printmaker and is also a musician who researches, interprets, and disseminates old-time music through the fiddle, banjo, and guitar. He currently resides in Durango, Colorado where he is an Associate Professor in the Department of Art & Design at Fort Lewis College.