1.soliloquy - a dramatic speech intended to give the illusion of unspoken reflections.  In a monologue, the speaker may be addressing other people.  In a soliloquy, the speaker is always talking to himself or herself.

The subjects captured by Katheryn Holt and Josh George differ in certain respects.  Holt paints women caught up in various social rituals.  Her women are active, glamorous and oftentimes seem to have been captured from a film made in Hollywood’s golden era.  George paints men and women out in restaurants or bars, also in active social settings.  His characters feel current and present in the moment, yet somehow there is a timelessness to them, too.  Their clothing and surroundings place them somewhere else, thought we do not know quite where.

Despite the activity and social settings of Holt’s and George’s paintings, their figures express a sense of loneliness and isolation.  They are looking away, or off into the distance, disengaged from the commotion of their immediate surroundings.  It is as if each is having a private moment of reflection, a deeper, more profound conversation with himself or herself than the social setting would suggest.  Holt and George are united in their uncanny ability to capture these private moments, these soliloquies not intended for others.