OK HARRIS WORKS OF ART (March 8-April 19)

OK HARRIS WORKS OF ART

We proudly exhibit the works of these exceptional artists through April 19^th.

This will be our last exhibition. 

Jean-Pierre Seguin

Tino Zago

Robert Ginder

Randy Dudley

Ron Weis

Steven Corsano

Shoichi Akutsu 

March 8 – April 19, 2014

Artists will be present on Saturday, March 8th  from 3-5pm

  General Eisenhower 2012-2013 figurines glued and painted on wood 60 x 48 in. 

Jean-Pierre Seguin

WW2 

Jean-Pierre Seguin uses three-dimensional objects to produce two-dimensional images. For his current exhibition, “WW2”, he uses primarily small plastic soldiers to compose images that refer to the Second World War. He uses several two-dimensional strategies to disturb the viewer’s perceptions, strategies that prompt them to move about and try broaching the image from different distances. Through this motion, the spectator becomes a kind of zoom lens, varying focal length to produce effects of nearness and distance. In close-up we see an army of thousands of soldiers and standing back we perceive a portrait.

 Just Passing Thru 2013 acrylic and oil on canvas 40 panels: 100 x 160 in.

Tino Zago

In this new work, Tino Zago continues the investigation of enlarging and fracturing an already completed work and transferring it via a grid to create a new work. The grid reinforces the image rather than breaking it further. As achieved, each new work becomes an entirely new world, an ethereal landscape in itself.

  Mudlark: Blue – 2014 oil and acrylic paint on expanded polystyrene 14 x 21 x 1.75 in. 

Robert Ginder 

Although Robert Ginder’s new works are technically sculpture, these objects are also three-dimensional paintings. They have the texture and presence of wall sculpture but also celebrate the exuberant variety of painted decorative image-making techniques. The new works are painted wall reliefs that depict tiny fragments of pottery and small pieces of dish-ware magnified to a grand scale. These are enlarged versions of the fragments one might uncover along the seaside or old urban riverbanks.

 Stepladder and Chairs 2013 graphite on paper 15 x 19.5 in. 

Randy Dudley

Randy Dudley’s current exhibition consists of new drawings and paintings depicting various industrial and urban landscapes, continuing a theme the artist has been exploring for several decades. The depiction of these sites includes the buildings, structures and the hardware assembled there. Many of these…both structures and objects…either serve a still-useful purpose or are cast off, often to be re-purposed later for a new and different use or discarded entirely. The works depict the functional landscape in the process of undergoing entropy, death, and transformation.

  Wish You Were Here (two men in a boat) – 2014 oil on paper on aluminum 6.5 x 4.5 in. 

Ron Weis

Ron Weis’ small paintings represent what he loves about oil paint. It is a medium that allows for a wide range of subtly-varying applications on various kinds of surfaces. Its flexibility endows small and often overlooked objects with expressive possibility. In this instance, he uses as his subject something as disposable and mundane as a postcard, and in the act of painting has raised it to the level of icon.

       Wild Lilacs 2013 mixed media on paper 11.5 x 11.5 in.

Steven Corsano

One Bird Shakes the Tree

Steven Corsano’s recent collection of mixed media on paper are poetic effusions, elegiac and exultant. Interior landscapes coalescing with the ephemeral and primordial forces of the natural world.

  Holes #3 2013 oil on linen 10 x 10 in.

Shoichi Akutsu

During the past decade, Shoichi Akutsu has depicted the heads of screws and holes on linen canvases with oil paint. Grounded in the tradition of European representational forms and influenced by American abstraction, Akutsu has developed a personal language to translate often-overlooked objects into art.

About OK Harris

OK Harris was founded by Ivan C. Karp in 1969 in the SoHo district of Manhattan. After having been co-director of Leo Castelli Gallery from 1959-1969 during which time he was instrumental in launching the careers of pop artists such as Andy Warhol, Roy Lichtenstein, Robert Rauschenberg, Tom Wesselmann and John Chamberlain, Ivan broke away and decided to launch his own gallery. Its establishment in SoHo as the first gallery on West Broadway helped inspire the development of the area’s fine arts character.

OK Harris exhibits contemporary art and photography, and on occasion mounts shows of antiques and collectibles. In its capacious facility, it is able to mount six, one-person shows simultaneously and has seven such exhibitions in the course of a year.

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