In 2021, Bryce Holt started painting full-time. He is a self-taught artist focused on figurative and representational pieces with a story behind each one. Storytelling is at the heart of Holt’s work. Each painting he creates has a narrative behind it before it is started. Kyle Holt the realm of arts business and management. Together, they are the Patrons.
Title of Piece: The House That Once Was Home
Artist: Bryce Holt
Size: 78” x 48”
Medium: Acrylic on canvas
Price: Inquire For Price
About the Piece:
You remember that evening, where we were playing hide and seek in the valley, the temperature was perfect, and we could just barely hear Mom yell "PIZZA" at the top of her lungs from the front porch, so we went running like crazy, knowing that we were going to eat on TV trays and watch the Sunday Night movie of the week? I've been searching for that feeling for decades, and I've gotta tell you, I'm afraid I'll never find it again.
About the Artist:
Bryce Holt is a narrative artist, mixing visual art and storytelling for an immersive experience. Like Roy Lichtenstein meets Albrecht Dürer, Bryce's acrylic paintings bring an etching-style to contemporary pop art each with a unique tale. Bryce's solo exhibition, "Unreliable Narrator," is on an 8 museum tour across the US.
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Artist: Bryce Holt
Title of Piece: Where No One Can Find Me
Size: 78 x 20
Medium: Acrylic on canvas
Price: $2,950
Description: Only she was brave enough to swim out this far. She smiled at the shadows of leviathans lurking just below the surface. The ocean was a wide, unwritten page, and what those on shore called “being lost" was simply a lack of imagination.
Artist: Bryce Holt
Title of Piece: Kabuki
Size: 78x46
Medium: Acrylic on canvas
Price: INQUIRE FOR PRICE
Description: When her makeup ran with tears, the audience tasted salt, not from their eyes, but somehow from the shores of Okinawa.
Name: Bryce Holt
Title of Piece: Game Time at the Nelson-Atkins (No. 4)
Size: 78x48
Medium: Acrylic on canvas
Price: $0
Studio Number: 205
About the Piece: "The two beauties by the silver tree knew they were playing a different game, and for them the rules no longer applied." - This painting celebrates the world class collection of Asian art at the Nelson-Atkins, and includes a nod to Roxy Paine's silver tree sculpture "Ferment" that stands in the Nelson's sculpture garden.
Name: Bryce Holt
Title of Piece: Game Time at the Nelson-Atkins (No. 2)
Size: 78 x 53
Medium: Acrylic on canvas
Price: $0
Studio Number: 205
About the Piece: : "There are competitors. Then there are those two." - This painting is a celebration of the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art. Bryce fell in love with art there, and this piece honors the Bloch addition to the building as well as the modern and contemporary art collection.
Name: Bryce Holt
Title of Piece: Narcissism
Size: 48 x 36
Medium: Acrylic on canvas
Price: $2,950
Description: "Aren't you beautiful?" she said to herself. "Can I tell you a secret?"
Name: Bryce Holt
Title of Piece: Temporary Ground
Size: 48 x 36
Medium: Acrylic on canvas
Price: $2,950 USD
Description: Jack White's "Temporary Ground" is a meditation on impermanence - the continents' slow-motion crash course, the fiddler's lone melody in the vast expanse, and a reminder of the fleeting moments that echo for a lifetime. She serenades the land, colossal titans lumbering towards a collision millions of years in the making, an awe-inspiring contrast to the fleeting beauty of the present moment.
Title of Piece: Left Brain, Right Brain
Size: 72" x 96"
Print or Original?: Original
Medium: Acrylic on Canvas
Price: $0
Description: Jan 23, 2025 - "Left Brain, Right Brain" is a portrayal of the symbiotic relationship I have with my brother. We are an amazing fusion in which I’m actively the right-brained creative, and he is the left-brained business side. Combined we have the power of a single brain! In this piece, the two heads are connected, forming a single, unified entity. They can be one or they can be separate. The cracks crisscrossing their faces show their individuality, where they’ve pulled apart like tectonic plates, yet their connection is unquestioned, and they are stronger together than apart. Having a partner who is a perfect foil to you can you take you to amazing places you wouldn’t have achieved otherwise. If you have that person, cherish them and the shared experience that connects you together.
Name: Bryce Holt
Title of Piece:Self Care
Size: 48" x 36"
Print or Original?: Original
Medium: Acrylic on canvas
Price:2350
Description:June 4, 2024 - In June 2022, researchers in Indonesia observed a wild orangutan purposefully apply a poultice of sap and crushed leaves to an open wound on his face. It's likely the first time we've witnessed intentional wound treatment to this level by a non-human species, however, it's highly unlikely this is the first time it's happened. That orangutan was almost assuredly taught this. We evolved in the same way. Every aspect of modern medicine and healthcare has been learned and passed on. How beautiful to see it in another species. My painting depicts an exaggerated form of self care with a bandage on the orangutan's face. Humans are just evolved hairless apes who have a slightly more advanced level of medicine and the ability to communicate and save information. We're only a couple million years ahead of the orangutan, which is the blink of an eye in terms of time and evolution.
Title of Piece:Fertility
Size:48" x 36"
Print or Original?: Original
Medium: Acrylic on canvas
Price: $2,950
Description:Apr 5, 2024 - The mother-to-be is cradled in the nest she has created for her baby. She sleeps with a full moon above her, symbolizing an egg cell, contained within an arch reminiscent of a pregnant stomach. Her dress is awash with motion, representing the constant changes women experience throughout pregnancy. Fertility is something that we often take for granted, yet 1 in 6 people globally are affected by infertility. There are so many challenges couple deal with. Becoming pregnant, carrying a child to term, health of mother and baby, etc. This painting is intended as a picture of hope for those who have dealt with issues of infertility. This is a dream that tens of thousands of people have right now, and my wish for each and every one of them is that they find the right path that leads them to the family that they desire.
Name:Bryce Holt
Title of Piece:A Heartbeat Short of Spaceflight
Size:48" x 36"
Print or Original?:Original
Medium:Acrylic on canvas
Price: $2,950
Description:Nov 21, 2023 - "Grandpa, why didn't you ever leave Earth? Mommy says you always talked about it." "I wanted to, honey. So badly, but my heart has a little something wrong with it." "You would have died if you went to space?" "Maybe. Or I might have been ok, but that was a risk I wasn't willing to take." "Why?" "Well, I knew you and your brother would come along one day, and I didn't want to miss meeting you. So instead of going to space, I painted all my hopes and dreams. First dozens, and then hundreds of paintings. Me and my brother together. He and I both knew that even if we never made it to space, one day, one of my paintings might. And that would be a little piece of me to share with the future of humankind, out in the cosmos." "Mommy said some of your paintings are on the moon." "I know, sweetie. We did it. I only wish Kyle could have been here to see it happen."
TItle of Artwork: The Long Haul
Materials Used: Acrylic on Canvas
Price: $1,950
Medium: Acrylic on Canvas
Date created (Year) : 2024
Size: 48x24
Rarity: Unique work
Condition: Excellent
Signature: Yes, bottom right
Certification of Authenticity: Yes
Frame: No
Series: In Sickness and In Health
About the Work:
The doctor stands, head lowered, stethoscope in hand. His expression is somber. Behind him are clocks with no hands, as he has lost track of time while caring for patients. Time can seem irrelevant when you're trying to provide care to as many people as possible.
Many doctors endure long shifts, trying to work efficiently, knowing they can't accomplish everything in the time allotted. Over half of all doctors working 50+ hours per week experience burnout. As they make life and death decisions, it's no wonder they experience elevated stress, exhaustion, and frustration.
Time can be a strange and variable construct in healthcare. Medical practitioners expend millions of hours, and their efforts give us millions of hours of life we wouldn't have had otherwise. An American male born in 1924 could expect to live 64 years, and a female could expect to live 71. Boys and girls born in 2024 can expect to live an average of 82 and 86 years, respectively. Things that used to kill us are now outpatient services. Diseases thought incurable are now eradicated. We're even exploring ways to counteract aging.
To all the doctors out there who have slumped their shoulders at the end of their shift, please know that your work is vitally important to all of us, in the most literal sense of the word. Remember that as you spend your time, you give us more of it.
TItle of Artwork: Waiting for the Phone to Ring
Materials Used: Acrylic on Canvas
Price: $2950
Medium: Acrylic on Canvas
Date created (Year) : 2024
Size: 48x36
Rarity: Unique work
Condition: Excellent
Signature: Yes, bottom right
Certification of Authenticity: Yes
Frame: No
Series: Short Stories
About the Work: This piece is about the moment waiting for the moment that will change your life. You have two paths, and they are about to diverge, but there’s a moment before something big happens, and you know it.
What a business trip.
It had only been three days, but his life had completely changed. Is changing. Will change. All he was waiting for was the call. If what he had been told was true, and he was choosing to believe that it was, this would be the start of everything. He would never see home again, but it would be worth it.
"Ring, baby," he murmured. "Ring."
Name:Bryce Holt
Title of Piece:Come to My Window
Size:36" x 156" (two canvases)
Medium:Acrylic on canvas
Price: Inquire for price
Description:He knew this might only be a love for a season, but last year taught him that armor is just another word for a cage. He was prepared to leave the window open to let the light spill out. After all, being brave is not the same as being fearless. Her mind warned her that it could not accept another heartbreak, but her soul was already unlatching the windowsill. She stood in the cooling forest, letting the blue hour spill out from her ribs. If the price of playing the game was the risk of being shattered, she was ready to pay it. The moon in her chest was too bright to keep hidden inside any longer.