Hilary Harkness Exhibition
Mary Boone Gallery (Midtown)
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Meticulously researched and, like Old Master paintings, loaded with minute symbolic details, these represent everything Harkness has completed in the three years since her last exhibition. The subjects reveal her inquisitive regard for hierarchical societies, whether a 19th century gold mining camp, a WWII garrison or battleship, or the present-day Christie’s auction house at Rockefeller Center. The societies depicted, however, share a distinctive quirk: they are populated exclusively by women who are carnal, industrious, cultured,and often sadistic and unclothed. The most recent painting in the show-– a drawing-room portrait of Gertrude Stein and Alice B. Toklas-– touches on these themes obliquely, and hints at a new tenor in Harkness’ work.
[Hilary Harkness "Pearl Trader" (2006) oil/linen panel 30 x 33 in]
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Schedule
from May 01, 2008 to June 28, 2008