Surfaces, Holes, Shadows: New Work by Del Harrow and Selected Drawings from a Distinguished New York Collection
June 13 – July 5, 2019
About The Exhibition
Harvey Preston Gallery is pleased to announce Surface, Holes, Shadows: New Work by Del Harrow and Selected Drawings from a Distinguished New York Collection. This exhibition pairs sculptural objects by Del Harrow with works on paper by Simon Frost, Alexander Gorlizki, Victoria Haven, Chuck Holtzman, Ronnie Hughes, Gloria Ortiz-Hernández and Cecil Touchon.
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About The Artists
SIMON FROST
Simon Frost was born and raised in Woodham, England. He currently lives and works in Brooklyn, NY. He studied at West Surrey College of Art and Design, Farnham, England, Bath Academy of Art, London, the Fine Arts Program, Cooper Union, New York and Chelsea School of Art, London. Recent shows include solo exhibitions at Peter Blum in New York and Xavier Hufkens Gallery in Brussels Belgium.
ALEXANDER GORLIZKI
Alexander Gorlizki was born in London in 1967 and studied Fine Art at Bristol Polytechnic, followed by an M.F.A in Sculpture at the Slade, London. A British native, Gorlizki currently lives and works in New York. Gorlizki's works on paper originate from an obsession with Indian Miniature paintings - a tradition that he has subverted and applied to his own particular visual language. In the mid 1990's he opened a studio in Jaipur, India with Riyaz Uddin, a master painter with a perfect command of technique that goes back over 600 years. Gorlizki draws out wonderfully odd subjects, patterns and compositions that Uddin then paints with jewel-coloured pigments, stone colours and gold leaf with a single hair-tipped brush to create works of breathtaking intricacy. When not working together in the studio, drawings get sent back and forth to be modified and adapted between New York and Jaipur, often over a period of years.
DEL HARROW
Del Harrow lives and works in Fort Collins, CO with his wife, potter Sanam Emami and their son, William. He is an Associate Professor at Colorado State University where he teaches Sculpture, Digital Fabrication, and Ceramics. His art practice spans genres of sculpture and design, and integrates traditional manual and skill based forming processes with digital fabrication technology.
Harrow has been invited to lecture widely on his own work and on the intersection of digital fabrication and craft in contemporary art and education. Recent lectures include Syracuse University/The Everson Museum of Art, The Auerbach Endowed Lecture Series at Hartford Art School, CT, and the Current Perspectives Lecture Series at Kansas City Art Institute. His work has been exhibited at The Milwaukee Art Museum, The Denver Art Museum, The Arizona State University Art Museum, Vox Populi Gallery, and The Museum of Fine Art in Boston. He represented by Haw Contemporary in Kansas City, MO, and Harvey Preston Gallery in Aspen, CO.
In 2020 Harrow received a United States Artist Fellowship.
VICTORIA HAVEN
Victoria Haven is an American artist known for her investigative drawing practices which often operate in the spaces between two and three dimensions. Using materials as varied as tape, rubber-bands, Gore-Tex, forged steel, and excavated building components, her work traces the corridors of real and imagined space.
CHUCK HOLTZMAN
Chuck Holtzman graduated from the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston in 1974. He has taught at Harvard University, Dartmouth College, The Art Institute of Boston, and the School of the Museum of Fine Arts. Holtzman’s work has been shown in solo and group exhibitions at museums and galleries throughout the United States. His drawings and prints are held in public collections including The Fogg Art Museum at Harvard, the Addison Gallery of American Art, Dallas Museum of Art in Texas, and the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. He has been chosen for two Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grants, and a National Endowment for the Arts Grant, and was awarded a Massachusetts Cultural Council Artist Grant in Drawing.
RONNIE HUGHES
Born in Belfast in 1965 and now living in County Sligo, Ronnie Hughes studied at the University of Ulster, Belfast, receiving an MA in Fine Art in 1989. Hughes has had numerous solo exhibitions throughout Ireland and has participated in many group exhibitions worldwide. Recent solo exhibitions include ‘Zygotic Tendencies’ presented at Chicago Art Fair and Steve Turner Contemporary, Los Angeles. ‘Strange Attractors’, a large survey show of his recent work, took place in 2017 at the Royal Hibernian Academy (RHA) Dublin. Irish Times art writer Gemma Tipton described this show as ‘op art extravaganzas that make your eyes ache; bursts of geometric shapes that seem to warp the flat surfaces of the paper and canvas into pinnacles and troughs; and grids of line and colour to take your senses for a walk through a series of endless mazes’. Hughes’s work has been written about extensively and he has received a multitude of awards, including a one-year residency in New York (PS1, 1990-91) and three-month residencies at Banff Arts Centre, Canada (1994) and Bemis Arts Canter, Nebraska (1997). In 2006 he was awarded both the ‘Irish Artist Fellowship’ – a one-month residency at the Vermont Studio Center and a two-month residency at the Albers Foundation in Connecticut.
GLORIA ORTIZ-HERNÁNDEZ
Colombian artist Gloria Ortiz-Hernández's drawings and sculptures have been shown in numerous solo and group exhibitions. Her work is in the permanent collections of a number of institutions including The Museum of Modern Art (NY), The Fogg Art Museum at Harvard University (MA), Art Museums Cambridge (MA), The Morgan Library (NY), The Menil Drawing Institute and Study Center (TX ), and The Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (MA). Her work is also in private collections throughout the United States and in Basel, Switzerland, Sao Paolo, Brazil, and Bogota, Colombia. She currently has a drawing (Plate/Shift #10) on view at the Morgan Library and Museum in New York City.
CECIL TOUCHON
Cecil Touchon’s paintings, which he considers deconstructed poetry, stem from his interest in the modernist history of abstract art and his belief that language and commercially designed objects are too often relegated to purely functional roles. Touchon takes fragments of language from sources like spam email, play bills, books and billboards, manipulating them into purely aesthetic arrangements. While previous works were deconstructed shapes derived from the Central Mexican landscape or architecture arranged into abstractions, Cecil has always been drawn inspiration from the ideas of modernist artists and poets who sought to reduce painting and collage to its essence and create a new visual language.
Cecil Touchon is a painter, performance artist, collector, draftsman, photographer, and curator. But it is through his collage work and paintings that he has made his most lasting mark. Touchon’s works are included in the permanent collections of the Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY, the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL, the Tate Modern, London, UK, and The Getty Research Institute, Los Angeles, CA.