Black Lives Matter Artist Grant Exhibition

Artist Profile | Edmund Holmes

Mixed-genre acrylic painting by Edmund Holmes. It portrays a green abstract character with a realistic human face emerging from the mouth. The background is filled with blocked colors of dark purple, red, and mustard yellow.
Black Shield 1
2020acrylic
40 x 30 inches
Mixed-genre acrylic painting by Edmund Holmes. It portrays a red abstract character with a realistic human face emerging from the mouth. The background is filled with blocked colors of red, blue, and mustard yellow.
Black Shield 2
2020acrylic
40 x 30 inches
Mixed-genre acrylic painting by Edmund Holmes. It portrays a blue abstract character with a realistic human face emerging from the mouth. The background is filled with blocked colors of red, black, and mustard yellow.
Black Shield 3
2020acrylic
40 x 30 inches
Mixed-genre acrylic painting by Edmund Holmes. It portrays a purple abstract character with a realistic human face emerging from the mouth. The background is filled with blocked colors of red, black, and mustard yellow.
Black Shield 4
2020acrylic
40 x 30 inches

Black Shield: Hidden Gems
2021

resin, spray paint

20.5 x 24 x 20 inches

About the Artist:

Portrait of Edmund Holmes

Edmund Holmes was born and raised in Detroit, Michigan, and has lived in Portland, Oregon, for ten years. He received his Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in Product Design from the College for Creative Studies in Detroit, Michigan. He has dreamed of being an illustrator and designer since he was a child. Holmes has recently had the opportunity to share his work in his community through three murals, #PDXROSIE, Honoring Our Women, and Invent the Future. These murals focus on amplifying the Black voice and letting his history be known. Holmes has always deeply desired the opportunities to use his artwork to bring awareness to the Black Lives Matter movement and its value in this world.


His murals address themes of representation and honoring Black women who have pushed for change. In #PDXRosie, Holmes reinterpreted Rosie the Riveter for a recent commission from a Black-owned restaurant. This was to push the narrative and inspire women who have not been acknowledged. All of Holmes's artworks are created to inspire, educate, and continue the conversation in diversity.


WEBSITE: https://www.theartofmundo.com/
INSTAGRAM: @mundooo

Additional Work Examples:

Vinyl on brick work by Edmund Holmes. A recreation of the "We can do it" poster that advertised the entrance of women in the workforce during the second world war. In this recreation is a Black woman with her arms partially raised, wearing a red scarf on her head and a blue shirt against a colorful abstract background.
Invent the Futurevinyl on brick20 x 22 feetPowell's Books Corporate Office
Vinyl on brick work by Edmund Holmes. It shows six Black people portrayed as superheroes in comic-book art style.
#PDXROSIE2020vinyl on brick9 x 30 feetAmalfi's Restaurant
Art piece by Edmund Holmes consisting of acrylic and spray paint on wall. The mural shows multiple raised fists in different colors against an abstract black and white background.
Representation Wallacrylic + spray paint6 x 40 feetFoster the Phoenix Building
Art piece by Edmund Holmes consisting of wheat paste with acrylic and spray paint on wood. It shows Angela Davis raising her fist against the American flag painted with the colors of the Pan-African flag (red, green, and black).
HONORING OUR WOMEN_Angela Daviswheatpaste with acrylic and spraypaint on wood6 x 14 feetFoster the Phoenix Building