FROM THE STUDIO
a series of two exhibitions highlighting the work of:

Harriet Shorr
January 29 to February 23, 2008

Reception for the artist: Thursday, February 7th, 2008 6 to 8 PM
An exhibition based on rarely seen
or never exhibited paintings.

Agnes Jacobs
January 3 to January 26, 2008
An exhibition based on never before
exhibited paintings, works on paper
and monotypes.

Harriet Shorr, "Sycamore Journey", 1995

We have worked with Harriet Shorr for close to ten years and have had the pleasure of exhibiting works painted especially for our own shows. In January and February of 2009 we will be showing Ms Shorr’s fourth solo exhibition with us. “From the Studio” is a departure. On a recent visit to Shorr’s studio I asked to see her favorite works that had not been exhibited in major solo shows.

We put together a group of very charming and, I think, very successful paintings based purely landscape. Harriet Shorr has focused much of her creative effort in painting “still life as landscape." For this show the elements in the paintings are all, in the main, landscape. They are not arrangements of objects either in the landscape or set up as a landscape.

There are several large scale works such as the gorgeous night painting called, “Fireflies” using much grisaille with a touch of pink for the flowers. “Sycamore Journery” is a stunning painting of sycamores, olive ground and white dog wood flowers reflected in a pond. Its rich colors and pattern are stunning. Painted in 1995, I am thrilled to have the opportunity to show this work. “Black Hollyhocks” is another visually arresting large work where the artist uses her appealing sense of play to create visual and sensory surprise. Black hollyhocks are painted right up to the picture plane and in a direct line behind them is a stand of birch. The image seems to show us impossibly huge hollyhocks hugging the graceful birch.

We also have smaller scale pieces capturing city landscape, and intimate studies detailing the artist’s love of gardening and botanicals.

It is exciting to be able to put this show together. Each work has a distinctive theme, sense of place, time and palette. The paintings range over an 8 year period and yet compliment each other beautifully for this exhibition.

Exhibition Images

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Harriet Shorr Sycamore Journey, 2001	Harriet Shorr Forsythia Fantasy, 2001
Harriet Shorr City Spring, 2001	Harriet Shorr Are These Narcissus?, 2002
Harriet Shorr Black Hollyhocks, 1996	Harriet Shorr Windblown, 2000
Harriet Shorr Bridal Ponds, 1998	Harriet Shorr Fireflies, 1998