Hail Holtzclaw

Hail was born in Augusta, Georgia but has lived most of her life in Atlanta, Georgia. She primarily works in oil paint and charcoal. She earned her B.A. in Art History and her B.F.A. in Fine Art from Georgia State University in 2023. She is currently pursuing her MFA in Studio the University of Georgia.

Her work is a little bit pulpy with a vaguely sinister feminist twist —shaped by conscious and unconscious choices. She often creates work in a photo-real style as a response to a world saturated with images, exploring flatness on a conceptual and material level. Her experience of making art in the twenty-first century feels like drifting toward a black hole, where gravitational forces stretch and compress her subjectivity beyond resistance, pulling her apart in ways she cannot escape.