Laurel Holloman

Painter

Birthday May 23, 1971

Birth Sign Gemini

Birthplace Chapel Hill, North Carolina, U.S.

Age 52 years old

Nationality United States

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Laurel Lisa Holloman is an American painter and actress.

She is best known for playing Tina Kennard in The L Word.

Holloman is the youngest child in her family.

She has two older brothers.

1986

She graduated from Saint Mary's School, an Episcopal boarding school for girls in Raleigh, in 1986.

She attended the University of North Carolina where she graduated with a degree in Performance Communication.

She appeared in numerous theater productions in Chapel Hill and Raleigh, as well as in Chicago and London.

She studied painting and sculpting at UCLA and at The San Francisco Art Institute.

After graduating from UNC, Holloman moved to Chicago to work with the Piven Theatre Workshop.

She studied with John Lynn in Los Angeles, and was cast in David Orr's independent feature Blossom Time.

1994

She moved to New York City in early 1994 and appeared in stage productions such as Tennessee Williams' The Glass Menagerie, Carson McCullers' The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter at the Theatre for the New City.

Holloman also performed off-Broadway in Julia Jordan's Night Swim at Playwright's Horizons.

1995

In 1995, Holloman began her film career with her role as Randy Dean in The Incredibly True Adventure of Two Girls in Love.

She worked steadily in a variety of mostly independent film roles, such as The Myth of Fingerprints, Boogie Nights and Tumbleweeds.

Though she retired from acting to pursue a career in painting, she returned to reprise the role of the series' follow-up, The L Word: Generation Q.

After her acting career, Holloman spent her time painting in Los Angeles.

Her paintings were influenced by Mark Rothko, with vibrant use of color and large scale pieces, as well as elements of three dimensional effect.

Although mostly abstract, Holloman's paintings betray a distinctly literary spirituality.

She received favorable reviews for Free Falling, which was held at the Ateneo Veneto in Venice, Italy.

Art critic Lea Mattarella reviewed Holloman's works in La Repubblica: "Holloman's paintings take us elsewhere, and at the end of the day, this is what art is all about".

2002

Holloman married architect Paul Macherey on July 13, 2002.

They have a daughter, Lola Reiko Macherey.

They adopted a second daughter, Nala Belle (meaning 'beautiful gift').

2012

In 2011, Holloman filed for divorce, which was finalized on June 18, 2012.

2012

2013

Holloman's painting, "Swell", was chosen to be part of the group show entitled "Nell' Acqua Capisco" at the Venice Biennale, 2013.

2013

2014

She won 1st Place in Discipline Painting at the 2014 Contemporary Art Biennale of Argentina.

2014

2015

Holloman had two entries in the 2015 Florence Biennale and won a prize for "Into the Woods".

In November 2015 she had a solo show at the Menier Gallery in London titled "The Innocents".

2015

2016

Holloman's first solo museum show entitled "Everglow" was held in Amstelveen, Netherlands from July 2016 through August 2016 in the Museum Jan Van der Togt.

2016

2017

2017