“One Stroke at a Time” is the collaboration by nephew and uncle duo Lorenzo Holder III (@lorenzo_holder) and Dr. Vicenzio Holder-Perkins (@vicenziomd).
“What began as a way to support my uncle’s recovery [following a stroke he experienced in 2018] became a way for us to understand each other differently,” says Holder. “The work is not about rehabilitation or perfection. It is about learning how to move forward together, one gesture at a time.”
Together, Holder and Dr. Perkins explore how to create in sync across generations shaped by trauma, resilience, and queerness. Completing each other’s drawings and paintings—sometimes sequentially, sometimes simultaneously—they blur the line between patient and practitioner while reimagining artist-organizer relationships within disability, kinship, and transformation.
Dr. Vicenzio Holder-Perkins, MD is a psychiatrist, educator, and emerging artist. He is a graduate of UCLA, Johns Hopkins, and George Washington University, and his work draws on decades in community mental health, HIV/AIDS advocacy, and multicultural psychiatry.
Lorenzo Holder III is an interdisciplinary artist examining how power, migration, and inheritance are carried and negotiated through the body. He is currently pursuing his MFA at the Corcoran School of the Arts and Design at George Washington University.
“One Stroke at a Time”
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“One Stroke at a Time: Watercolor ArtBook” (Signed Limited Edition) by organizing artists Lorenzo Piero Holder III (@lorenzo_holder) and Dr. Vicenzio Holder-Perkins (@vicenziomd).
“One Stroke at a Time: Watercolor ArtBook” is an interactive artist book that invites you to participate in the creation of new collaborative artworks by using watercolor to respond to a series of original line drawings produced by the artists.
The book gathers some of the earliest marks made during the artist’s collaboration, foregrounding presence, vulnerability, and adaptation over technical mastery. Rather than emphasizing perfection or skill, it extends an open invitation to engage directly with what is in front of you.
The publication is released as a limited edition of 25 presale copies, each numbered and signed by both artists. Please see link in bio for more details.