Untitled (All Night Dancing)

Christian Holstad

2003

A cut-and-pasted printed-paper collage that stages two patterned, blue‑headed figures in a domestic bathroom to suggest a playful, performative encounter between body and space.

You’re stopped by the jarring mix of glossy photographic sinks and a shower curtain reading “ALL NIGHT DANCING” against flat, psychedelic-patterned bodies with deep‑blue heads and white outlines that seem to float and repeat across the tiled floor.

The piece demonstrates an early‑21st‑century reinvention of collage and drawing—colliding photographed interiors with handlike patterning—to probe performance, identity, and the uneasy overlap of private and public life.

Palette

Art Terms

Collage Photomontage Drawing Contemporary art Figurative Investigating identity Figure/ground relationship

Exhibitions

Handmade Paper Prints and Unique Works

1976

Wall Hangings from the Collection

1986

Works on Paper

1974

Naked/Nude: Contemporary Prints

1986