Presenting the works of HARRISON LOVE
EXHIBTION HISTORY
ABOUT
Harrison Love RISD 2008 2015: San Francisco-! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! New York-! ! Los Angeles-!!
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“APOPHENIA,” performance art, SOMArts Cultural Museum SFMOMA Gallery, incorporated into their contemporary collection ! ! “DART,” artist and curator, The SUB SF ! ! ! “RIOT,” artist, The SUB SF “GG,” Annul Brooklyn Salon Show, The Greenpoint Gallery ! “The Last Chacmool,” The Calliope Nexus at UCLA
Hannover, Germany 2015: New York 2014: San Francisco 2014: !
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“Hello World,” curator and participant, Forum S15 “LOVE SPECTRUM,” Pop-Up Installation, Scholastic Soho
“Hello World: Art Exchange,” curator, The SUB “BLISS TRANSMISSION,” solo show, The SUB “Place Displaced,” group show, SOMArts “UBUNTU: Art and Community,” group show, OMI Gallery Oakland “IM- Pressed,” Curator and Participant, Big Umbrella Studios
Singapore 2014: San Francisco 2013:
“Love Affair,” group exhibit, The John Erdos Gallery “Moments of Grace,” group show, The Big Umbrellas Studios “The Golden House,” solo show, Art Primo “The Sound My Heart Makes,” solo show, Propellor Showroom
Singapore 2012:
"RIND," Solo Exhibit, The John Erdos Gallery “Broken Shells,” 60x40 inches, oil on canvas, 2013v
Medellin, Colombia 2012: New York 2011-2012:
Singapore, 2010: ! Connecticut, 2010: ! ! ! ! ! Rhode Island 2004-08:
Campos de Gutierrez, Artist Residency "Beautiful Later," Exhibition, Bryant Park 2011 "Best in Show," Brooklyn Annual Salon Show, "Compressed Culture," Solo Exhibit, The Greenpoint Gallery ART NOVA, Group Exhibition, The Old School Gallery
“Dynamic Spiritualism,” solo show, The Expressiones Gallery Tunisian Collaborative Painting Project, The Lyme Art Academy ! ! “L Studio” Solo Exhibit, the Velvet Mill Studios “Water Bears,” group show, The ISB Gallery RISD Solo Show, The Red Door Gallery RISD
"Best in Show," 5 Gold Keys, State and National Scholastic Art and Writing Awards 2004
CONTACT: Harrison Love - WWW.HARRISONLOVE.COM - love.harrison@gmail.com
About the artist:
Born into an artistic family and having lived and worked in New York, Tokyo, Shanghai, Singapore, Peru and Colombia it has become increasingly difficult to summarize the nomadic life and influences of Harrison Love. A graduate of The Rhode Island School of Design (RISD ‘08), Harrison is currently living and working in San Francisco. Within the past year Harrison was nominated as the Creative Director of Big Umbrella Studios (a co-op art gallery and studio space in San Francisco) and is now the curator of several projects both in the US, in Europe and South East Asia. Harrison Love is the recipient of several National and State Scholastic Awards, winner of the 2014 Scholastic POP UP Art Show in NYC, as well as the winner of “Best in Show,” at The Annual Brooklyn Salon Show in 2012.
BLACK AND WHITE COMPOSITIONS
“Three Pilgrims,” 26x10 inches (w/o frame), acrylic and ink on canvas, 2013 “Jungle,” 156x18, acrylic on vinyle/paper mesh, 2008
Technique “The works I exhibit are meant to communicate. In my more illustrative technique I follow more narrative methods. However, through abstraction, I seek to create a blissful/playful atmosphere, combining the techniques of street style graffiti and calligraphy into expressive abstraction. My work is designed to instigate artistic debate and understanding by underscoring the superficial question, ‘what does it mean,’ by emphasizing the more important question, ‘what does it do?’”
“Briars,” 45x25 inches, acrylic and ink on canvas, 2008 “NW 4th St.” 52x12 inches, acrylic on pvc plastic, 2012
“Plums in Brandy,” 54x62 inches, acrylic on canvas, 2008 “Broken Horn,” 16x20 inches, Acrylic and Gouache on Collage, 2008
“Changing Trains,” 60x42 inches, acrylic on PVC Plastic, 2012
“IGLESIA,” 20x6 inches, oil on canvas, 2010
“Crystalline Summer,” 30x40 nches, acrylic on canvas, 2014
THE RIOT SERIES
Optical Illusion Art
These tryptics were created as interactive art pieces. The paintings themselves change color when the audience moves around the gallery space.
“ALBOROTO,” 30x16 inches, oil on canvas, 2015
“The Three Stages of Being,” Tryptic, Acrylic on wood slats,
“STEAM,” Tryptic, Acrylic on Slats 2013
“RIOT,” 34x30 inches, oil on canvas, 2015
Artworks incorporated into the collection of SFMOMA Gallery in 2015
“Big in Japan,” 50x10 inches, acrylic and ink on canvas with resin, 2014
“The Cross Town Local,” 52x60 inches, Acrylic on Canvas, 2014
The Seasons Series
“The Seasons,� a collaboration between Mac and Harrison Love. The composition of four paintings to illustrate the changing seasons, was created for CitiPond at Bryant Park NYC, for the 2011 Winter Season. The works were deliberately created to withstand harsh environmental contiions and were hung in an open air environment for 6 months.
Exhibit Design
A 3D Tour of this exhibit is available online by searching keyword, ‘DART Collective Matter Port,’ if you are browsing an interactive version of this presentation then you can access the link by clicking on the photos on this page.
“The Woman whoe Fell in Love with the ountain and the Men Who Watched,” 24x20 inches ink on paper, 2010
LOVE SPECTRUM a collaboration between Colin Bowring and Harrison Love A collaborative installation of mirrors and prisms of defracted sunlight, translated into bands of projected rainbows reflected around a workspace in which the artists demonstrated various artistic techniques, including printmaking, painting, writing and sculpture from September 21st-27th in the Scholastic Store main display window at 557 Broadway, New York, NY.
The installation was comprised mainly of mirrors and mylar sheets suspended by wire. During the 10 day exhibition the artist performed live before a captive audience for 10 hours a day, creating and printing additions of woodblock prints.
“Muña: The First Seed,” 12x9 inches, linoleum carving, print. (Part of a series of 20 prnted plates for the illustrated book, Pahasqa Ñan: The Hidden Way by Harrison Love
“OPAL,” spray etchng on mirror, (the original inspiration for the Love Spectrum Installation at The Scholastic Headquarters in New York)
APOPHENIA, is a live performance piece designed by Harrison Love. Performed by Jen Whiddon Set to Music by Wylie Cable The Live Performance debuted at SOMArts Cultural Center for the Annual Night Lights Gala on July 18th 2015. More information and Updates can be found @ www.harrisonlove.com Contact: love.harrison@gmail.com