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Email PageRobert Harms: Recent Paintings
April 5, 2007- May 5, 2007
Reception: April 5, 5:00 pm - 8:00 pm
Robert Harms
Lohin Geduld Gallery
531 W 25th St Robert Harms Trestle (2006) |  Robert Harms Ice (2007) |
Robert Harms’ sumptuous new paintings conjure up a breezy natural world of sensation and participation. A long-time proponent of gestural painting, Harms builds his imagery with skiddering brush strokes, calligraphic lines, and densely layered patches of color. As abstract and diffused as these shimmering images are, they also carry the specificity of a landscape seen at a particular time and condition.
From Harms’ Southampton studio windows, he observes the ever changing interplay of light and shadow on Little Fresh Pond. This daily meditative ritual gives his paintings the authority of first hand knowledge, but it is Harms’ masterful painting language that conveys that knowledge as experience for the viewer. As a true believer in the Abstract Expressionistic idiom, Harms extends the idiom by equating the gesture to visual phenomena. These are paintings that encompass a landscape tradition inclusive of the Hudson River School, Turner, Monet, Soutine, and DeKooning’s works inspired by the light of eastern Long Island. Harms also shares a kinship with Gorky’s biomorphic rhythms and Twombly’s surface markings that simultaneously engage both body and picture plane.
Harms’ great strength as an artist, however, is in making paintings that contain the joy and excitement of painterly discovery. There is an imperative to his mark making, as if the image is formed out of a necessity to capture fleeting moments. Color and brush stroke build these moments into passages of time and sensation. Through the paintings we have the pleasure of extended participation, along with Robert Harms, reveling in the ever shifting patterns of Nature.
Robert Harms’ work has been included in many solo and group exhibitions including David Beitzel Gallery, Rebecca Ibel Gallery, The Parrish Art Museum, Museum of Contemporary Art in Miami, Tibor de Nagy Gallery, and the East Hampton Center for Contemporary Arts. His work has been reviewed in the New York Times, the East Hampton Star, ArtNews, Artforum, and the New York Observer. Public collections with Robert Harms work include The Metropolitan Museum of Art, The Parrish Museum Southampton, and American Express Financial Services.
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