Gallery artist Edward Holland will have his first museum solo exhibtion titled Celestial Sea at the Brattleboro Museum & Art Center, Vermont. Celestial Sea consists of 12 canvases and 36 smaller works on paper that represent my earliest and latest explorations of Vigils of the Dead, a body of work that I began in 2014. The work is built around mythology and myth-making in ways that are open to interpretation—abstract rather than illustrative. Zodiac signs, which are the focus of Celestial Sea, are exactly that: abstract shapes signifying a narrative. They are both form and content, much like the practice of painting itself.