Biography / Statement

Dodd Holsapple Visual Artist

b. Indianapolis, Indiana, U.S.A

Holsapple created the inventive and widely popular Living Sculpture works entitled the View Planter Series. These works were extensively published and exhibited internationally. Holsapple’s studio space is located in Santa Monica, California where currently produces contemporary visual artwork in Sculpture, Drawing and Painting. Dodd Holsapple studied Visual Art at Ball State University, Muncie Indiana receiving BFA’s in Drawing and Painting.

Holsapple was interviewed for a televised documentary about new contemporary sculpture and architecture for A&E! television in 2001. Public art installations, Earthworks Now at Copper Mountain College in Joshua Tree, California / Drain Strain for the City of Manhattan Beach, California / Thicket sculpture installation and Mud DNA Chaffey College, Rancho Cucamonga / Mud Fish Mandala Fontana California along with a solo exhibition in their Artist Showcase program.

Exhibition venues / the Primitive Series artwork in the Origins show at Arizona State University / Santa Clarita City Hall and Santa Ana’s “Thinking Outside The Box” at Raven Gallery / River by Twelve was exhibited in Santa Clarita’s gallery entitled Found followed by a radio interview, Inside Out in Pittsfield, MA. Mr. Holsapple’s painting of a Lily Flower was selected for the Easter Seals lily stamp art competition.

Mr. Holsapple was featured by Everyday Leaders podcast and showcased a live painting event at Budman Studio, in the WNDW, Venice California. June 2022 the Flora Exotic series JuJu2 presented for the first time in a solo exhibition at Galleria Valerie in Northern California. Mr. Holsapple released his first NFT series; Seeds To Smoke in July 2022.

In 2023 Dodd will be exhibiting the Reflections works in Berlin Germany with Climate Collection and the Water Series exhibit at IUP in Pennsylvania. The Reflections works are published in Al-Tiba9 Magazine and The Uncoiled Magazine. In open competition, Dodd was selected and awarded a major sculpture installation scheduled for late 2023, published and documented in Croatia dealing with environmentalism and Sea Grass protection

Statement About The Artist Dodd Holsapple

Dodd Holsapple creates visual art examining distinctive composition blended with a maximized color theory set to data driven patterning, mathematics and time executed to uniquely verify environmental awareness. Strong visuals weave through color filled linear constructions with rigid, measured definitions of space related to place that embrace time interlaced the with lush organic movement of nature. Dodd exemplifies a highly developed use of artistic methods and unique compositional balance culminating to amplify today’s contemporary landscapes in crisis. He is deeply focused on creating beautifully engaging visual artwork inspired by numerous environmental themes. Motivated by research related to environmental conditions and scientifically collected data recorded in charts and graphs, he explores climate recognition through art as social response awareness and habitat defender.

Creating a recognizable contemporary style, his work is bursting with eye grabbing rhythmic and thematic technical visuals that document multiple moments into vivid complex visions. His engaging works are executed as a true art experience for the viewer telling a visual story with purpose and unexpected movement that deeply invites the audience to look passionately into contemporary fine art spirited by the environmental concerns. Producing in series, works are integrated with habitat social awareness and stylized composition formalized in an unexpected and well developed color theory application covering several areas of environmental categories. Dodd carefully selects organic elements blended with defined linear formats culminating to amplify the contemporary landscape spirited by environment and climate awareness. By creating a recognizable contemporary style his works are bursting with rhythmic and thematic technical visuals that document multiple moments into complex visions.

Inspired from the natural world while understanding the need to protect terrestrial zones, Dodd conveys a powerful use of space relative to landscapes and an artistic style reflecting contemporary visual formats generating massive thematic geographical visuals. Expressive graphic content is designed and embedded into visual constructions to represent a sense or record, a documentation of a passing moment in time with regard to spatial elevation. Graceful organic patterning and technical data all visually dance in a progressive layered application and coloring process build a new way of seeing landscapes. Dodd applies emphasis on environmental social overtones that share high regard to the opportunity of discovery by inviting the viewer to look deeper into the work. This strong contemporary visual activity contributes to an organic quality and future-forward visual complexity that is approachable and cascading with delight. Dodd’s works are planned and designed with an openly engaging and complex arrangement of seasoned technique resulting in artwork that exhibits a moment of interactive visual delight recording the past, present and future all captured in a contemporary art frame.