5 One-Person Exhibitions
OK Harris Works of Art
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OK Harris Works of Art is pleased to announce 5 one-person shows of new work.
John MacAdam
These recent oil paintings of highways at dusk are an examination of overlooked places that
are peripheral to our vision. MacAdam focuses on ambiguous moments of movement. The
images invite contemplation of the subtleties of the land and invoke wonder at the familiar.
Mimmo Roselli
Measuring the Space begins the sixth series of site-specific sculpture-installations that have
been presented in various museums and galleries over the last few years. As with the works
preceding the current exhibition, the sculpture consists of wires under tension that proceed
from wall to wall and produce an alternate dimension inside an otherwise cubic zone. The
interior and exterior sculptural space becomes a co-protagonist of the work.
Gerry Keon
Keon’s preferences lie with humble materials that are then constructed in an unlikely fashion in
order to “find” the very objects that emerge from the process.
The objects discover themselves through the trials and tribulations of the artist’s
dissatisfactions with them, an endeavor involving their constant dismemberment and
reassembly. Whatever qualities they may possess emerge through the many processes they
have been subjected to and are as surprising to their maker as if they had, indeed, been found
amongst builder’s debris or upon a stretch of beach.
Anthony Sorce
The twenty-two non-referential paintings in this exhibition are works on paper and paperboard.
Physically rich layered surfaces are built in combinations of drawing into wet paint, scraping
and glazing. Also occurring is a strong interrelationship of color and light rendering in most
instances an acute impression of emerging light. The resulting visual images from this body of
work engage and reward the viewer with a sense of poetry, passion and artistic precision.
Steen Valde Larsen
This Danish artist shot this series of color photographs of doors in Cuba over the past ten
years. Larsen approaches each image as if he were an abstract painter considering a
composition. Each door, expressive, isolated and in a state of decomposition or disrepair loses
its utilitarian identity and instead becomes a solitary abstraction.
[Image: John MacAdam "Into the Twilight" (2008) Oil on canvas 36 x 48 in.]
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Schedule
from February 14, 2009 to March 14, 2009
Opening Reception on 2009-02-14 from 15:00 to 17:00
Artists will be present Saturday February 14th, 3 – 5 pm
Artist(s)
John MacAdam, Mimmo Roselli, Gerry Keon, Anthony Sorce, Steen Valde Larsen