Associated American Artists
Holmes Fine Art & the AAA
Holmes Fine Art was founded 1980 in San Jose,
California by Ms. Holmes. In 1986, both Roy & Meryle Holmes'
were hired by the American Red Cross of Greater New York to implement
the sale of over 12,000 prints donated by Associated American Artists
(AAA) at that time valued over $5 million. The Holmes' were also
creators and executive producers of the 1987-90 weekly television
program, "The Art Market Report", which aired on PBS,
The Learning Channel, Bravo , FNN (CNBC) and international distribution
under the sponsorship of such entities as American Express, New
York's Plaza Hotel, TWA, VISA and many Fortune 500 companies. The
show secured generated advertising commitments of $1.5 million per
calendar quarter, and was nominated for an Ace Award.
In 1993, they opened Holmes Fine Art Gallery in downtown San Jose.
In 1996, Holmes founded Art Tech: Silicon Valley Institute of Art
& Technology. From 1983-95, Ms. Holmes had been a founding board
member of San Jose's Guadalupe River Park and served on the board
of directors for San Jose State University's Center of Literary
Arts, for which she secured playwright legend Arthur Miller as a
guest speaker for the 1999 series and his wife photojournalist Inge
Morath as exhibiting artist for Art-Tech.
History & Background
Holmes Fine Art originated in 1980 in San Jose, California originally
as Holmes & Associates, a business comprised of founder Meryle
Karloff Holmes, and other art professionals whose function was to
serve as art-media advisors and consultants to private and public
companies, developers, architects, designers, and individual collectors.
Karloff-Holmes created, organized, curated and marketed exhibitions
in public and private environments, collaborating with established
and recognized curators and non-profit organizations. In 1993, Ms.
Karloff-Holmes and her husband, Roy Holmes, established the Holmes
Fine Art Gallery as a retail business in downtown San Jose, serving
the people of San Jose and Santa Clara County.
Ms. Karloff Holmes recognized that being in Silicon Valley, which
is the capital of technology has some of the greatest minds and
resources in the world. It seemed logical to create an Institute
that would be a resource to the technical world, and inversely,
technology would be a resource for the art world. One of the greatest
needs in technology today is to enable artists as content providers.
Yet, artists do not have adequate access to the tools of technology.
This paradox can be resolved. Art Tech: The Silicon Valley Institute
of Art & Technology will become a resource for artists developing
technical applications in multi-media, education, entertainment,
and professional and consumer areas.
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