Zach Harris "Requiem Reversals"
Meulensteen
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Max Protetch Gallery is pleased to announce its first exhibition of paintings by New York based artist Zach Harris. With their elaborately constructed painted reliefs, Harris’s paintings of visionary landscapes, mottled color fields, imaginary cities and psycho-spiritual climactic events are in fact complete sculptural statements suggestive of devotional objects.
Harris’s work draws from a wide and seemingly contradictory range of influences and affinities and embody strategies from an array of historical periods: Medieval talismanic utility, Modernist structure, Romantic pictorial drama, and Post-modern eclecticism. Harris’s paintings also seem to reconcile contrasting approaches to object-making: the focus of each piece oscillates between the intensity of the painted image and the intricately crafted sensibility of the surrounding relief.
To this end, each work represents a long process of calibration between painting and relief. The elements are often begun independently and enter into conversation with one another as Harris develops the concept for the total piece. In this way each painting is given a unique setting; or seen conversely, each relief is eventually given an emblem, a symbolic pictorial experience that defines and specifies its ambient characteristics. In some cases Harris employs illusionistic effects to further blur boundaries between these two aspects of the work.
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Schedule
from January 10, 2009 to February 07, 2009
Opening Reception on 2009-01-10 from 18:00 to 20:00