Mike Holsomback: One Monkey Don’t Stop the Show

Solo Exhibition at The 109 Gallery

Opening Reception: Saturday, August 1, 2026 | 6 PM
The 109 Gallery | Historic Downtown Chickamauga, Georgia

The 109 Gallery welcomes artist Mike Holsomback for his solo exhibition, One Monkey Don’t Stop the Show, opening Saturday, August 1 at 6 PM.

A longtime artist and educator, Holsomback brings decades of making, teaching, observation, and lived experience into a practice spanning painting, collage, and mixed media. A retired professor from Chattanooga State Community College, he has been an enduring presence within the region’s arts community, influencing generations of artists while continuing to develop a visual language distinctly his own.

Holsomback’s work is layered, expressive, and often playful, moving between abstraction, recognizable imagery, humor, memory, and the unexpected. Materials, marks, fragments, and images accumulate into works that reward looking closely, revealing new relationships and narratives along the way.

One Monkey Don’t Stop the Show celebrates an artist who has kept making, experimenting, and following the work wherever it leads.

Join us for the opening reception and an evening with the artist as we celebrate this new body of work at The 109 Gallery.

Opening Reception
Saturday, August 1, 2026
6 PM
Free and open to the public

On View August 1 – September 6, 2026

The 109 Gallery
109 Gordon Street
Chickamauga, GA 30707

@the109gallery @studioholsomback