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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.
STORY TELLERS: Puppets by Artists exhibition Cavin-Morris Gallery, NYC
STORY TELLERS: Puppets by Artists group exhibition at Cavin-Morris Gallery, New York, NY Saturday, January 22 from 4pm to 6pm, and Friday, March 4, from 6pm to 8pm.
Preliminary opening at Cavin-Morris Gallery on Saturday, January 22 from 4pm to 6pm. Second reception on the Friday of the Outsider Art Fair on Friday, March 4, from 6pm to 8pm with Ricco-Maresca Gallery at 529 W. 20th Street.
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CAVIN-MORRIS GALLERY
529 W 20th Street, 3rd Floor
New York, NY 10011
t. 212.226.3768
info@cavinmorris.com
http://www.cavinmorris.com
STORY TELLERS: Puppets by Artists group exhibition at Cavin-Morris Gallery, New York, NY Saturday, January 22 from 4pm to 6pm, and Friday, March 4, from 6pm to 8pm.
Preliminary opening at Cavin-Morris Gallery on Saturday, January 22 from 4pm to 6pm. Second reception on the Friday of the Outsider Art Fair on Friday, March 4, from 6pm to 8pm with Ricco-Maresca Gallery at 529 W. 20th Street.
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CAVIN-MORRIS GALLERY
529 W 20th Street, 3rd Floor
New York, NY 10011
t. 212.226.3768
info@cavinmorris.com
http://www.cavinmorris.com
Jan Harrison
SPHYNX 2021
Porcelain, encaustic, ink, cloth, wire, thread
24 x 7.5 x 7.5 inches
61 x 19.1 x 19.1 cm
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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
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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."
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.
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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.
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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.
Jan Harrison’s thoroughly modern surrealism, Interview/Article by Lynn Woods
Interview/Article by Lynn Woods in the Kingston Times HudsonValley1
Article by Lynn Woods, about Jan Harrison's art, in the context of receiving the NYFA Inaugural Recharge Foundation Fellowship for New Surrealist Art.
Excerpts: "The pastel-and-ink paintings and porcelain-and-clay sculptures of Kingston-based artist Jan Harrison defy stylistic pigeonholes, but their otherworldliness and dreamlike logic relate to Surrealism, the 1920s Paris-based movement that celebrated the unconscious as the root of the creative impulse and exulted in the element of surprise.
Unlike the classic European-based style, which is characterized by jarring disjunctions and infused with a sense of alienation, Harrison’s work posits a world view in which animal and human natures are fused; the mystery that pervades her luminous, spectral primates, cats, birds and other creatures from her Animals in the Anthropocene and Corridor series stems from their sense of deep knowing and immersion in a primeval cosmos in which the wholeness of nature is restored.
This nature is not hostile, but rather a realm to be discovered, an intrinsic, if buried, part of the human psyche; the viewer identifies vulnerability, innocence, and grace in Harrison’s animals. ..... In its subtle patterning and brilliant, atmospheric color, her formal language bears affinities with non-Western traditions. The delicacy of line in her paintings and tiny scale of her recent sculptures heightens the sense of tender connection and tactile warmth."
Jan Harrison, BALANCE, 2015, 22.5 x 30.25 inches; pastel, ink, colorpencil, charcoal on rag paper, from the series Animals in the Anthropocene.
Interview/Article by Lynn Woods in the Kingston Times HudsonValley1
Article by Lynn Woods, about Jan Harrison's art, in the context of receiving the NYFA Inaugural Recharge Foundation Fellowship for New Surrealist Art.
Excerpts: "The pastel-and-ink paintings and porcelain-and-clay sculptures of Kingston-based artist Jan Harrison defy stylistic pigeonholes, but their otherworldliness and dreamlike logic relate to Surrealism, the 1920s Paris-based movement that celebrated the unconscious as the root of the creative impulse and exulted in the element of surprise.
Unlike the classic European-based style, which is characterized by jarring disjunctions and infused with a sense of alienation, Harrison’s work posits a world view in which animal and human natures are fused; the mystery that pervades her luminous, spectral primates, cats, birds and other creatures from her Animals in the Anthropocene and Corridor series stems from their sense of deep knowing and immersion in a primeval cosmos in which the wholeness of nature is restored.
This nature is not hostile, but rather a realm to be discovered, an intrinsic, if buried, part of the human psyche; the viewer identifies vulnerability, innocence, and grace in Harrison’s animals. ..... In its subtle patterning and brilliant, atmospheric color, her formal language bears affinities with non-Western traditions. The delicacy of line in her paintings and tiny scale of her recent sculptures heightens the sense of tender connection and tactile warmth."
Jan Harrison, BALANCE, 2015, 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. "
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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. "
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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.
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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.
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THE ANIMALS LOOK BACK AT US
Sara Lynn Henry, Curator
*Williamsburg Art and Historical Society, Brooklyn, NY,
September 21 through October 20, 2013.
Artists in the exhibition: Terri Amig, George Boorujy, Catherine Chalmers, Stella Chasteen, Sue Coe, Lee Deigaard, Mary Frank, Jan Harrison, Gillian Jagger, Nina Katchadourian, Isabella Kirkland, David Marell, Christy Rupp, Alan Siegel, Janice Tieken, Eva van Rijn, Jess Wallace.
Catalogue, illustrated. Cover image: Jan Harrison's painting, "Big Cat - Mountain Lion With Foliage Fur."
Previously exhibited at Byrdcliffe Kleinert/James Center for the Arts, Woodstock, NY, February 22 through March 24, 2013.
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Sara Lynn Henry, Curator
*Williamsburg Art and Historical Society, Brooklyn, NY,
September 21 through October 20, 2013.
Artists in the exhibition: Terri Amig, George Boorujy, Catherine Chalmers, Stella Chasteen, Sue Coe, Lee Deigaard, Mary Frank, Jan Harrison, Gillian Jagger, Nina Katchadourian, Isabella Kirkland, David Marell, Christy Rupp, Alan Siegel, Janice Tieken, Eva van Rijn, Jess Wallace.
Catalogue, illustrated. Cover image: Jan Harrison's painting, "Big Cat - Mountain Lion With Foliage Fur."
Previously exhibited at Byrdcliffe Kleinert/James Center for the Arts, Woodstock, NY, February 22 through March 24, 2013.
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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
Dear Mother Nature
DEAR MOTHER NATURE: Hudson Valley Artists 2012
Curated by Linda Weintraub
Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art
State University of New York at New Paltz
New Paltz, NY June 23 - November 4, 2012
Alice and Horace Chandler and North Galleries
DEAR MOTHER NATURE: Hudson Valley Artists 2012
Curated by Linda Weintraub
Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art
State University of New York at New Paltz
New Paltz, NY June 23 - November 4, 2012
Alice and Horace Chandler and North Galleries
"Big Cat - Mountain Lion with Foliage Fur"
©2011, Jan Harrison
pastel, charcoal and ink on rag paper
45 x 34.25 inches.
(Seven inch border of rag paper around image.)
Private Collection
Jan Harrison performed in Animal Tongues with animal sculpture heads, in front of her large pastel painting, "Big Cat - Mountain Lion with Foliage Fur," at the Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art, on September 15, 2012.
©2011, Jan Harrison
pastel, charcoal and ink on rag paper
45 x 34.25 inches.
(Seven inch border of rag paper around image.)
Private Collection
Jan Harrison performed in Animal Tongues with animal sculpture heads, in front of her large pastel painting, "Big Cat - Mountain Lion with Foliage Fur," at the Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art, on September 15, 2012.
