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Email PageThe Future is in the Past
April 1, 2006- May 6, 2006
James Harrison
Luise Ross Gallery
511 W 25th StJames Harrison (1925-1990) sought spiritual transcendence through art and probed the inner machinations of the self through artistic practice. But unlike the approach of some of his New York School mentors, Harrison’s interrogation of the self was neither lofty in its aesthetic motivation nor didactic in execution. A gritty, uncompromising, deeply personal counterpoint to the haughtier aesthetic ambitions of the abstract expressionists, Harrison’s oeuvre reveals the darker aspects of self-transcendence. Harrison's road to the sublime led him through an intense exploration of sexuality, altered states of consciousness, Jungian dream analysis, alchemy, tantra, astrology and the Kabbalah.
Art Reviews of The Future is in the Past
| New York Times April 28, 2006 | Ken Johnson | "...Prolonged study might reveal a coherent system of symbols and cosmic psychology underwriting Harrison's art. What is more immediately compelling is the tension between recognizable mystical imagery and painterly obfuscation, which might be read as a metaphor for the artist's struggle to transcend his own psychic chaos...." |
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