SOLSTICE WITH JUPITER

                                                                                          FOX AND FEATHERS

Harris' mixed media works on canvas and paper "are part art, part science experiment" she says, referencing her love of materials and the unpredictability of process. Her quick, natural energy is evident and easily recognizable in the work, regardless of surface or medium. The results lure and lull the viewer to share in the hypnotic journey; to slow down, to wander and to see with child like vision again.

ARTIST STATEMENT

“Painting, for me, is both a way to remember and a way to forget”

My non-representational paintings provide an opening a bridge helping me to reconcile the complex sensory experiences and beautiful dualities of life.

Making art is many things...exciting, frightening, frustrating and addicting. It's weighted with potential for discovery or doom in a split second. It's pretty much a tight rope walk without a net. Yet the processes, materials and energy needed to focus on creating seem as essential to me as air and water. It's how I filter the world around me how I take in visual, emotional, social and sensory experiences and try to reconfigure them into a new language.

Paint is a tangible, tactile, and malleable medium, that, with patience and coaxing, and maybe divine intervention, can make visible what is invisible. Emotional moments of joy and sorrow, clarity and confusion, beauty and hatred can be conveyed in a single stoke. Physical qualities such as smell, taste, and sound can be incorporated and revealed in art so that the viewer has a visceral response, almost like a memory or a dream.

But what does bitter and sweet or sorrow and ecstasy look like? What color is the wind? How can begin to understand and depict the vastness of human experience? Can I suspend a moment, so that it verges simultaneously on both becoming and dissolving?

I know it's a moving target but that's the hope I cling to.

REPRESENTATION (linked)

Artspace8, Chicago, IL
Chicago Art Source, 1871 Gallery, Chicago, IL
Craighead Green Gallery, Dallas TX
Diane West Jewelry & Art, Durango, CO
Edgewater Gallery, Middlebury, VT
Hodges Taylor Contemporary Gallery + Consulting Firm, Charlotte, NC
Pryor Fine Art, Atlanta, GA
Shaw Gallery, Naples, FL
Slate Gray Gallery, Telluride, CO

CORPORATE AND PUBLIC COLLECTIONS

Historic Westory Building lobby, Washington, DC
Ingenious Corp, London, England
Duke Memorial Medical Center, Durham, NC, purchase award
Mesa University, Grand Junction, CO, purchase award
Denver International Airport select group exhibition
Colorado Governor’s mansion, select group exhibition
Northern Trust Bank, downtown Chicago, IL, commission
Ritz Carlton Hotel, Grand Cayman Island, commission
Northern Trust Bank of Chicago, Chicago, IL
1600 LaSalle Condominium Complex, Chicago, IL commission
Pine River Library, Bayfield, CO

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

GROUP EXHIBITIONS

PRESS