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"A BRUSH WITH FAME"
"Laurel Holloman reflects on the L Word phenomenon, painting and butching it
up."
A lesbian comic once told me that the one thing she always incorporates into
her act is a joke about The L Word. "The show is our common ground," she said.
"Some loved it, other didn't, but everybody has an opinion, a favorite cha-
-racter or a suggestion on how it could've been done better." While entertain-
-ment by lesbians, for lesbians is certainly on the rise, there's a particular
gap in lesbian culture once filled by the glitzy, dramatic, call-it-what-you-
-will phenomenon that was The L Word.
What would the show have been without Tina Kennard? Laurel Holloman's por-
-trayal of the confused bisexual held us for five years, through break-ups,
pregnancies, career changes and one heterosexual relationship that was met
with widespread contention. And who can forget the "will they or won't they"
apprehension and hope for Tina Kennard and Bette Porter's relationship?
When the series ended in 2009, the cast disbanded and went off to pursue other
career paths and opportunities. For Holloman that meant pursuing roles both on
screen and stage, and a return to her artistic roots, as a trained painter.
When we spoke Holloman was at her L.A. home, a place she describes as "a very
happy canyon house," where she lives with her young daughters, lots of paint
and a little pet corgi, who recently ended up with green oil paint on her
tummy for a month because she got into the studio.
Holloman is a woman in transition. She's figuring out the balance in her life
as she navigates her career path and the recent trail separation with her
husband of nine years, architect Paul Macherey. "My children come first. I
guess right now, if you had to say, it would go: Children, painting and then
acting."
Wolking mostly in oil, - a medium which, she says, is the most challenging but
also the sexiest for its messiness - Holloman creates richy hued large abs-
-tracts, figurative abstract nudes and landscapes. And the result is artwork
that's rich in color and emotionally charged.
One of her popular works is the "Tribeca Loft Series," which Holloman des-
-cribes as a liberation, and a mark of departure from her previous style. "I
was given some advice that went: if you're in a partnership where you feel
like you're not your true self anymore, then maybe you need to re-focus and
see. The liberating part was getting back to something I really wanted to do,
which was paint." Holloman and Macherey had begun to live separate lives, with
Holloman in New York and Macherey working in China. Holloman wanted to get
back to her true self, "which was sort of getting back to before I was on The
L Word, before I cecame a mom, before I cecame a wife and I was this incredi-
-bly creative person doing things that were more art-related."
Speaking of The L Word, Holloman still sees her former co-stars from often. "I
love these women because they all do things beside act - that is so inspi-
-rational. Like Leisha Hailey who sings, writes music, paints and acts or Mia
[ Kirshner's ] charity, and Pam [ Grier ] who just wrote a book. They're all
talented actresses but I think as you get older, as a woman, you try and fi-
-gure out what kind of stamp you want to put into the world and what else
you're putting out there, and I think that's also one reason why I'm painting."
Before our goodbyes I asked Holloman the question that I know is on every les-
-bian's mind: Is Randy Dean's hair ever coming back? ( Remember Holloman's
1995 breakthrough baby butch role in "The Incredibly True Adventure Of Two
Girls In Love?" ) "That's funny that you ask that because in the middle of
painting last summer it was really, really hot and I thought about cutting my
hair just like that. I was actually getting green paint in my hair and it took
forever to get it out, and it was such a mess, and I was like, I think I need
Randy Dean's hair!" She even tried on a Randy Dean-style wig first to get the
idea. She wasn't quite ready for it, but says, "I see myself as a painter with
short hair one day, just locked away from all the Hollywood stuff."
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