Joseph Holston’s cubist abstractionist style has evolved over a fine arts career spanning over thirty-five years. His works are included in public and private collections throughout the world, and he has received critical praise as a painter and printmaker. He has had solo exhibitions at the Southern Alleghenies Museum of Art in Pennsylvania; the Washington County Museum of Fine Art in Hagerstown, Maryland; the Butler Institute of American Art in Youngstown, Ohio; the Arts Program Gallery at the University of Maryland University College; the Fort Worth Museum of Fine Art, Texas; the Afro-American Museum, Philadelphia; the King-Tisdell Cottage Museum, Savannah, Georgia;; the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill; Delaware State University; the APEX Museum, Atlanta, Georgia; the Visual Arts Center of Northwest Florida; and the DuSable Museum, Chicago.
Works by Joseph Holston are included in numerous museum, institution and private collections. Among these are the Baltimore Museum of Art; the Yale University Art Gallery; the Washington County Museum of Fine Art in Hagerstown, Maryland; the Butler Institute of American Art, Youngstown, Ohio; the Museum of Art at the Rhode Island School of Design; the David C. Driskell Center at the University of Maryland; the Banneker-Douglass Museum, Annapolis, Maryland; the King-Tisdell Cottage Museum, Savannah, Georgia; the Lyndon B. Johnson Library at the University of Texas; DePauw University, Howard University, the University of Maryland, the University of Vermont, the AFL-CIO, Washington, D. C.; the Hubert H. Humphrey Collection, the Evans-Tibbs Collection, the Donald Byrd Collection, The Jean and Robert Steele Collection, The David and Thelma Driskell Collection, and New York City’s Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture.
Holston had an eight-year career as a commercial artist before committing himself fully to painting and printmaking. Years of independent study included painting and drawing with distinguished artists Marcos Blahove and Richard Goetz, and etching with Winston Kennedy at Howard University. He also studied etching and lithography at Montgomery College in Maryland.
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