ARTISTS PORTRAITS PROJECT: Photograph of Jan Harrison, by Katvan Studio
Artists Portraits Project: Portraits of artists in their studios website
Photograph of Jan Harrison
Photographs by KATVAN STUDIO
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Artists Portraits Project: Portraits of artists in their studios website
Photograph of Jan Harrison
Photographs by KATVAN STUDIO
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THE THREE HANDS - ANIMAL SOUL, Jan Harrison, Solo Exhibition of Recent and Earlier Paintings, Sculpture, and Installation
THE THREE HANDS - ANIMAL SOUL, JAN HARRISON, Solo Exhibition of Recent and Earlier Paintings, Sculpture. and Installation, THE LOCKWOOD GALLERY, Kingston, NY. October 28 - November 26. 2023. c: Alan Goolman.
"Since the very beginning my art has involved a personal and universal myth, revealing the animal nature in ourselves and in the world. The animal beings are emissaries or guides. Their eyes invite us into their world. They embody an ongoing connection with the life force of the world...." Jan Harrison
Image: "THE THREE HANDS" Jan Harrison, 2022, pastel and ink on rag paper, 22 x 30 inches. Series: Animals in the Anthropocene.
THE THREE HANDS - ANIMAL SOUL, JAN HARRISON, Solo Exhibition of Recent and Earlier Paintings, Sculpture. and Installation, THE LOCKWOOD GALLERY, Kingston, NY. October 28 - November 26. 2023. c: Alan Goolman.
"Since the very beginning my art has involved a personal and universal myth, revealing the animal nature in ourselves and in the world. The animal beings are emissaries or guides. Their eyes invite us into their world. They embody an ongoing connection with the life force of the world...." Jan Harrison
Image: "THE THREE HANDS" Jan Harrison, 2022, pastel and ink on rag paper, 22 x 30 inches. Series: Animals in the Anthropocene.
Jan Harrison's Dream Animals, Review by Carter Ratcliff in Hyperallergic
Jan Harrison’s Dream Animals
Jan Harrison’s Dream Animals
"To respond to an animal in Harrison’s imagined world is to grasp how closely its existence is linked with that of all the others."
-Carter Ratcliff
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Excerpts:
"Harrison’s three-dimensional animals float in imperturbable repose and those in her paintings mostly regard us with utter calm. A few, with teeth bared, may well be poised for ferocious leaps. Still, her world is not an arena of Darwinian conflict. It is an ecosystem of intuitable meanings, of empathies intertwined. The paintings belong to a series the artist launched in 1993, which she calls Animals in the Anthropocene — animals in the time of human dominion, a title that could be understood as an indictment, given all that the human race has done to harm animals through environmental and other kinds of disruption.
However, the mood of Harrison’s art is not prosecutorial. Rather than send us messages about the damage we have inflicted on our world and its inhabitants, including ourselves, she confronts us with images and effigies of creatures whose beings are as complex as our own, and thus as valuable. She does this in the faith that, in coming alive to all that is vital in these figures, we will realize that the vitality of an individual creature is not enclosed within itself."
"An empathetic connection to a single being withers unless we weave it into a network of further connections with myriad beings. To respond to an animal in Harrison’s imagined world is to grasp how closely its existence is linked with that of all the others. Thus, she refreshes our insight into the interdependence of living things — and our understanding of life’s dependence on the real world, which, in the Anthropocene period, needs every insightful action we can take."
-Carter Ratcliff
Click on Heading at the top to see link of full review.
Excerpts:
"Harrison’s three-dimensional animals float in imperturbable repose and those in her paintings mostly regard us with utter calm. A few, with teeth bared, may well be poised for ferocious leaps. Still, her world is not an arena of Darwinian conflict. It is an ecosystem of intuitable meanings, of empathies intertwined. The paintings belong to a series the artist launched in 1993, which she calls Animals in the Anthropocene — animals in the time of human dominion, a title that could be understood as an indictment, given all that the human race has done to harm animals through environmental and other kinds of disruption.
However, the mood of Harrison’s art is not prosecutorial. Rather than send us messages about the damage we have inflicted on our world and its inhabitants, including ourselves, she confronts us with images and effigies of creatures whose beings are as complex as our own, and thus as valuable. She does this in the faith that, in coming alive to all that is vital in these figures, we will realize that the vitality of an individual creature is not enclosed within itself."
"An empathetic connection to a single being withers unless we weave it into a network of further connections with myriad beings. To respond to an animal in Harrison’s imagined world is to grasp how closely its existence is linked with that of all the others. Thus, she refreshes our insight into the interdependence of living things — and our understanding of life’s dependence on the real world, which, in the Anthropocene period, needs every insightful action we can take."
Jan Harrison, FOUNDLING, 2015, pastel, ink, colorpencil on rag paper, 22.5 x 30.25 inches. Series Animals in the Anthropocene. Courtesy of the artist and 11 Jane St. Art Center.
ANIMULA - big little soul
ANIMULA - big little soul, solo exhibition of the work of Jan Harrison, at 11 Jane St. Art Center, Saugerties, NY. It included pastel and ink paintings from her Animals in the Anthropocene series, and a sculptural installation of over 200 tiny porcelain sculptures, Tiny Porcelain Sea Creatures and Other Creatures. There was also a performance of Jan Harrison speaking and singing in Animal Tongues. The sculptural installation and performance was accompanied by the sounds of sea creatures and other animals by Gary Weisberg. Installed by Alan Baer.
Opening Reception: Saturday, August 29, 12-6pm
August 29 - October 4, 2020
11 Jane St. Art Center, Saugerties, NY
Animal Tongues Performance, Jan Harrison and Gary Weisberg, 2020, within Sculptural Installation in Jan Harrison's solo exhibition, ANIMULA - big little soul, at 11 Jane St. Art Center, Saugerties, NY.
Jan Harrison, THE FLOOD, 2018, 22.5 x 30.25 inches; pastel, ink, colorpencil, charcoal on rag paper, from the series Animals in the Anthropocene.
Opening Reception: Saturday, August 29, 12-6pm
August 29 - October 4, 2020
11 Jane St. Art Center, Saugerties, NY
Animal Tongues Performance, Jan Harrison and Gary Weisberg, 2020, within Sculptural Installation in Jan Harrison's solo exhibition, ANIMULA - big little soul, at 11 Jane St. Art Center, Saugerties, NY.
Jan Harrison, THE FLOOD, 2018, 22.5 x 30.25 inches; pastel, ink, colorpencil, charcoal on rag paper, from the series Animals in the Anthropocene.
Life or Death, by Brainard Carey
Feature article by Brainard Carey for Praxis Center for Aesthetics, Yale. The article is about extinction known as the Holocene extinction, and Jan Harrison's Series of pastel and ink paintings, Animals in the Anthropocene.
"The current political climate in the United States, in particular, does more than turn a blind eye to those who value capital over measures ensuring the welfare and survival of the planet that sustains all forms of life as we know it. "
Feature article by Brainard Carey for Praxis Center for Aesthetics, Yale. The article is about extinction known as the Holocene extinction, and Jan Harrison's Series of pastel and ink paintings, Animals in the Anthropocene.
"The current political climate in the United States, in particular, does more than turn a blind eye to those who value capital over measures ensuring the welfare and survival of the planet that sustains all forms of life as we know it. "
Interview with Jan Harrison by Brainard Carey
Interview by Brainard Carey for the Museum of Non-Visible Art, Yale Interviews, Praxis Interview Magazine....The recording of the interview can be heard on this link, which includes a discussion of Jan Harrison's visual art as well as speaking and singing in Animal Tongues.
Jan Harrison is an American painter and sculptor whose work, which primarily features animal imagery, centers on the animal nature as it relates to human existence and the collective psyche. Since 1979 her art has been connected with the philosophy of deep ecology. She speaks and sings in Animal Tongues, which she performs in conjunction with her visual art.
Interview by Brainard Carey for the Museum of Non-Visible Art, Yale Interviews, Praxis Interview Magazine....The recording of the interview can be heard on this link, which includes a discussion of Jan Harrison's visual art as well as speaking and singing in Animal Tongues.
Jan Harrison is an American painter and sculptor whose work, which primarily features animal imagery, centers on the animal nature as it relates to human existence and the collective psyche. Since 1979 her art has been connected with the philosophy of deep ecology. She speaks and sings in Animal Tongues, which she performs in conjunction with her visual art.
The Animal Nature and the Psyche - The Art of Jan Harrison
As part of our blog series dedicated to lost and endangered species in the lead-up to Remembrance Day for Lost Species, ONCA delves into the otherworldy work of New York-based artist Jan Harrison. The words are Jan’s own as she describes the work. Dive in, and drift a while through the more-than-human psyche…
ONCA’s mission is to cultivate environmental and social wellbeing through the arts. We aim in all our activity to inspire creativity and positive action in the face of environmental change, and to help galvanise the creation of a critical mass of work that responds to and explores these changes.
ONCA
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Brighton
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http://onca.org.uk/whatwedo/
As part of our blog series dedicated to lost and endangered species in the lead-up to Remembrance Day for Lost Species, ONCA delves into the otherworldy work of New York-based artist Jan Harrison. The words are Jan’s own as she describes the work. Dive in, and drift a while through the more-than-human psyche…
ONCA’s mission is to cultivate environmental and social wellbeing through the arts. We aim in all our activity to inspire creativity and positive action in the face of environmental change, and to help galvanise the creation of a critical mass of work that responds to and explores these changes.
ONCA
14 St George’s Place
Brighton
BN1 4GB
01273 607101
http://onca.org.uk/whatwedo/
Anima/Animus; the strange and beautiful world of Jan Harrison
Roll Magazine Article: Anima/Animus; the strange and beautiful world of Jan Harrison.
by Donatella de Rosa
Roll Magazine Article: Anima/Animus; the strange and beautiful world of Jan Harrison.
by Donatella de Rosa