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Paul Wackers - If You Can't See Me, I Can't See You
7 Sep - 2 Nov 2024 Eleanor Harwood Gallery is pleased to present Paul Wackers’s ninth solo exhibition with the gallery: If You Can't See Me, I Can't See You. The show will open on September 7th , 2024, and will be on view through November 2nd, 2024. In his new collection, Wackers initiates paintings ––... Read more -
Carissa Potter - Loose Ends
A Pop-Up shop with Original Artwork and Items from "People I've Loved" 7 Sep - 2 Nov 2024 Read more -
Hunter Saxony III - Pieces Of A (Black) Man
In Conjunction With the Museum of African Diaspora’s (MOAD) 'Nexus' Black Art Week | Opening Reception October 3rd 19 Sep - 16 Oct 2024 Hunter Saxony III’s work investigates line, form, shape and text through abstract ornamentation. Piece’s of a (Black Man) is a derivative title interplaying with AZ’s 90’s classic Rap album “Pieces of a Man”. These “ Piece’s”of Art and the Artist serve as visual meditations on Life and Love, with subtle... Read more
Past
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11 Landscapes - James Chronister, Bryson Gill, Martin Machado, Chris Russell & William Swanson
3 - 31 Aug 2024 The artists in 11 Landscapes approach the form in very different ways. From Bryson Gill's near total abstraction in Fog 3 to the precision and detail in James Chronister's works, they run the gamut of approaches to creating a landscape painting. However, not a single painting in the show is... Read more -
Lee Materazzi - ¢a$h&¢arry
3 - 31 Aug 2024 ¢a$h&¢arry will be up in the backroom gallery with prints and the beautifully boxed set available for purchase. All prints are $50 each & full box sets are available. The 250 images comprising Lee Materazzi’s ¢a$h&¢arry serve as an incomplete archive, as all archives do, chronicling the last five years... Read more -
Not Just Rainbows
Art by Deidre DeFranceaux and Gooch: A PopUp Exhibit at Minnesota Street Project Presented by The Mocas Art Group 27 Jun - 13 Jul 2024 In a time where the Rainbow Flag has become a ubiquitous symbol of LGBTQIA+ allyship, queer identities are facing increasing legislative efforts around the country looking to marginalize their expression. In Not Just Rainbows, Deidre De Franceaux and Gooch give us portraits of San Franciscans whose artistic self-expressions are joyful,... Read more -
As a Seed Imagines a Flower
11 May - 22 Jun 2024 Walsh's painting and Coley's ceramics contain imagined prehistoric flora and fauna painted and made of clay. Both artists use materials to better understand inner and outer worlds of the human into a world where centaurs roam portals of lush prehistoric still life. Both artists play with ideas of reimagined history... Read more
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Hello Sunshine
Eleonor Boström, Karina Gill, Eric Landmark, Emily Peck, Rob Spector, Kim West 11 May - 22 Jun 2024 Curated by Holly Coley and Liz Walsh Hello, Sunshine Eleonor Boström , Karina Gill, Eric Landmark, Emily Peck, Rob Spector, Kim West Holly Coley and Liz Walsh chose to include artists that are also musicians in Hello, Sunshine . The artists sometimes shift between sound and visual practice as creators.... Read more -
Dana Hemenway – Endless...
22 Mar - 4 May 2024 Eleanor Harwood Gallery is pleased to announce our third solo show with Dana Hemenway Endless... Opening Reception March 22nd, 2024, 5-7pm Closing Reception and Performance May 4th, 2024, 5-7pm Maggie Haas, on Dana Hemenway: Describing the material world is a difficult proposition. I’ve been told negative space reveals positive... Read more -
"Hands Like Sponges," a group show curated by Dana Hemenway
Annie Artell, Harley Healy, Siena LaMere, Lee Materazzi, Ian McDonald, Mareiwa Miller, nkiruka oparah, Haley Summerfield, and Mariana Varela 22 Mar - 4 May 2024 Opening Reception: Friday, March 22nd, 5-7pm Exhibit Dates: March 22nd - May 4th, 2024 a group show in the backroom gallery curated by Dana Hemenway with Annie Artell, Harley Healy, Siena LaMere, Lee Materazzi, Ian McDonald, Mareiwa Miller, nkiruka oparah, Haley Summerfield, and Mariana Varela In conjunction with Dana Hemenway's... Read more -
Pure Beauty
a group show with Tara Daly, Mary Finlayson, Rachel Kaye, and Sarah Thibault 3 Feb - 16 Mar 2024 Eleanor Harwood Gallery is pleased to present a group show with Tara Daly, Mary Finlayson, Rachel Kaye and Sarah Thibault . The title 'Pure Beauty' refers to the title of the most complete book on John Baldessari, depicted in Mary Finlayson's mosaic, as well as to the artwork, “Pure Beauty”,1968,... Read more
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Harumo Sato - Moya Moya Series
Backroom Gallery 3 Feb - 16 Mar 2024 About Harumo Sato Harumo Sato is a Japanese visual artist residing in the San Francisco Bay Area, California. With a diverse international background, having lived in Japan, France, Morocco, Tunisia, Italy, and Spain, she earned her BA from the University at Buffalo, New York, in 2015. Her passion for... Read more -
Martin Machado: Three Sheets to the Wind, Out on a Limb
2 Dec 2023 - 27 Jan 2024 (August 16th, 2023) – Eleanor Harwood Gallery is pleased to announce our first solo show with Martin Machado. Opening December 2nd, 5-7pm Show runs: December 2nd - January 27th Machado celebrates what he calls “natural intelligence:” a direct response to a city abuzz about artificial-intelligence, his artistic work represents nature’s... Read more -
News from the Rhizosphere
A group show curated by Martin Machado 2 Dec 2023 - 20 Jan 2024 'News from the Rhizosphere' will be in accompanying Martin Machado's 'Three Sheets to the Wind, Out on a Limb.' It will feature Charlotte Beavers, Gabriel Isaac Kasor, Ryan Beavers, Dave Muller, Stephen Amato-Salvatierra, Bardos (Aaron Brown), Oliver Hawk Holden, Chelsea Wong, and Andy Brennan. Machado has a tight community of... Read more -
James Chronister in the Viewing Room
7 - 30 Nov 2023 Read more
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Tiffanie Turner – American Grown
9 Sep - 18 Nov 2023 Eleanor Harwood Gallery is delighted to announce our second solo show with Tiffanie Turner opening in our newly expanded gallery. Tiffanie Turner is an architect, author, and artist known for her small, meticulously detailed paper flowers and her giant paper botanical sculptures. At both scales, her sculptures of flowers deform,... Read more -
Escape
Drew Bennett, Kelly Carámbula, and Motonori Uwasu 13 Jul - 26 Aug 2023 Opening Reception: July 13th - 6-10pm Show Runs: July 13th - August 26th For pricing information visit our Private View We are delighted to announce our summer exhibition: “Escape” with Drew Bennett, Kelly Carámbula, and Motonori Uwasu. “Escape” is a group show celebrating the transformative nature of summer. Whether we... Read more -
Mary Finlayson – Inside, Inside
6 May - 17 Jun 2023 Mary Finlayson (b.1982) is a Canadian-born artist living and working in San Francisco, California. Finlayson’s paintings are a celebration of color, pattern, and form which chronicle and celebrate the aesthetics of everyday life. Her tightly constructed and highly detailed works capture the feeling of these spaces, evoking the memory of... Read more -
Wave Forms – Atrium Spotlight
Andrew Huffman & Martin Machado 1 Apr - 20 May 2023 Eleanor Harwood Gallery is delighted to announce a two-person exhibit with Andrew Huffman and Martin Machado. Wave Forms marks the beginning of the gallery's new “Atrium Spotlight” series, presented on the outer walls of the gallery. Wave Forms juxtaposes very different interpretations of the physics of a curve. Huffman breaks... Read more
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Hunter Saxony III – You Have My Heart… It’s OK to Rest Here.
4 Mar - 29 Apr 2023 Eleanor Harwood Gallery is thrilled to present its first solo show with Hunter Saxony III. Hunter Saxony III, known as the Last Black Calligrapher in San Francisco, is fascinated by the power of words. Saxony first became interested in calligraphy in his teens, influenced by hardcore bands, album art and... Read more -
Lee Materazzi – Nipples Pulled Through
7 Jan - 18 Feb 2023 Eleanor Harwood Gallery is delighted to present Lee Materazzi’s second solo exhibition with the gallery. When interviewed by her ten-year-old daughter, Mia, as a part of an artist talk, Lee Materazzi was asked, “You make quite a mess; from experience, I know you don’t like this kind of messiness inside... Read more -
Paul Wackers – Fresh Cut
5 Nov - 21 Dec 2022 Eleanor Harwood Gallery is pleased to present Paul Wackers’ eighth solo exhibition with the gallery. Some of the paintings in Fresh Cut mark a departure from Wackers’ earlier work. He has previously painted flowers presented as arrangements in vases. This body of work includes many paintings that focus in on... Read more -
Kira Dominguez Hultgren – To Carry Every Name but Your Own
10 Sep - 22 Oct 2022 Eleanor Harwood Gallery is pleased to present Kira Dominguez Hultgren’s third solo exhibition with the gallery. Please see our Viewing Room for additional insight into the works in the exhibition. To Carry Every Name but Your Own is a show woven from wool, silk, sisal, and Kevlar, in pieces of... Read more
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Heat Maps
a group show with Messy Beck, Johanna St. Clair, and Amber Jean Young 12 Aug - 2 Sep 2022 Eleanor Harwood Gallery is delighted to host three women for our summer exhibition: “Heat Maps”. Heat maps represent density or intensities of data. Messy Beck brings us the exuberance and celebration of nakedness and sexuality, Johanna St. Claire the profusion and pleasure nature brings us, and Amber Jean Young digs from the memories in her life and lights up her paintings with references to her childhood, mother and father. Read more -
Kelly Carámbula – Moving Past
25 Jun - 6 Aug 2022 Kelly Carámbula is a San Francisco-based artist and sculptor. Her work explores elements of acceptance and control, often incorporating surprises that encourage the viewer to look closer, longer, or from a different perspective. She is continually interested and inspired by the tactile relationships between color and form— using clay, wood,... Read more -
Chris Russell – After Life
7 May - 18 Jun 2022 Eleanor Harwood Gallery is thrilled to present our second solo show with Chris Russell. The decaying remains of old giants yield new life. Saplings, sprouts, moss, lichen and fungus displayed in abundance like flowers on the grave of a beloved. Russell finds hope in these stumps, decomposition becomes reorganization, death... Read more -
James Chronister – Only Sunrises
5 Mar - 23 Apr 2022 Eleanor Harwood Gallery is thrilled to present our sixth solo show with James Chronister. James Chronister has produced a visual language that oscillates between personal and universal ideas of landscape and place. Based on his own photographs of his native state of Montana, Chronister renders images using thinned black oil... Read more
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Mistakes Were Made
by Josh Keller & Carissa Potter 11 Dec 2021 - 12 Feb 2022 We are a couple trying to stay together during a pandemic. Some context: When Josh and Carissa started dating 12 years ago now, Josh told Carissa frankly that he did not believe in collaboration. He believes that someone always has to be in control. That their truest collaboration would be... Read more -
Paul Wackers
Works between 2010-2015 11 Nov - 9 Dec 2021 Read more -
Terri Loewenthal – Havasu Falls
11 Sep - 6 Nov 2021 Eleanor Harwood Gallery is thrilled to present Havasu Falls, new work from Bay Area photographer Terri Loewenthal. Havasu Falls is the artist's first exhibition with the gallery and features eight large scale photographs of Havasu Falls created in the artist's signature style- strikingly saturated kaleidoscopic images created on-location through optics... Read more -
The Apple Doesn't Fall Far from the Tree
Artists and Their Children, Together 4 - 28 Aug 2021 Opening Saturday, August 7th, 3pm-5pm & TNT Traysikel SideCaraoke With Michael Arcega and Paolo Asuncion @ 4:30pm-onward in from of Minnesota Street Project. Read about TNT Traysikel About 'The Apple Doesn't Fall Far from the Tree, Artists and Their Children, Together' We are delighted to present a show with... Read more
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Paul Wackers – The Space We Take
15 May - 10 Jul 2021 Read more -
Kira Dominguez Hultgren – Make Space
Nada House 2021 8 May - 14 Aug 2021 GOVERNORS ISLAND, NY, NEW YORK FRIDAYS, SATURDAYS, AND SUNDAYS, 11AM–5PM BEGINNING MAY 8TH, 2021 No tickets needed for entrance to NADA House About NADA House 2021 Exhibition Ferry Info to Governors Island: https://www.govisland.com/visit-the-island From Dutch windmills to fans that replace the air in the Hugh L. Carey Tunnel every ninety... Read more -
Bryson Gill – Irradiance Cache
26 Mar - 8 May 2021 Read more -
Let me steal this moment from you now
with Lee Materazzi & Balint Zsako 1 Feb - 31 Mar 2021 Giving and taking, adding or subtracting; both artists play with the body. Materazzi subverts the usual presentation of the female body, and Zsako adds in humor and eroticism to his paintings. Zsako points to the edges of our perception and the haptic, an almost-unfelt touch. Materazzi presents her body as... Read more
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Sometimes Things Come Together
Kelly Carámbula, Tiffanie Turner and Paul Wackers 9 Jan - 27 Feb 2021 Eleanor Harwood Gallery is pleased to present “Sometimes Things Come Together”, a group show with Kelly Carámbula, Tiffanie Turner and Paul Wackers. The idea that “Sometimes Things Come Together” is about science as much as it is about art. Carámbula, Turner and Wackers share a love of combinations and invention... Read more -
Erik Parra – Insides Out
15 Oct - 19 Dec 2020 "Insides Out" in is a new body of twelve acrylic paintings made entirely during the 2020 pandemic and shelter in place order by Erik Parra. Erik Parra is based in San Francisco, California and is from El Paso, Texas. Read more -
Carissa Potter - Making Being Here Enough
A Virtual Exhibition 24 Jul - 16 Dec 2020 This past week, Potter opened Making Being Here Enough, a virtual show at Eleanor Harwood Gallery, San Francisco, of sumi ink works that touch on these needed intimate moments with each other in the face of continued adversity around us. Even though many of these speak to a timelessness, it's hard to look at them without the ominous cloud of Covid or the need for social justice reform. Potter herself recently became a mother of a child who needs extra care, and this the gallery notes so eloquently, “These paintings are made by a woman who has learned how to comfort herself.” From intertwined bodies to simple still-lifes to social distanced conversations and even solitary nude, the works quietly speak of acceptance and the need to be at peace with uncertainty.
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Invincible Summer
16 May - 15 Aug 2020 Read more
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Lee Materazzi – I Fucking Love You
7 Mar - 17 Jul 2020 Eleanor Harwood Gallery is pleased to present I Fucking Love You, our first solo show with Lee Materazzi.
Materazzi works using medium format photography to document her own performance, installation, and sculpture. Her practice is hybridized, somewhere between performance and formal portraiture. Her use of compositions, color and form almost trick us into not seeing the conceptual content of her work. The seductive bright colors ease us into looking, and then the images point us to the deeper considerations within her work. The bending, the pretzeling of motherhood, and womanhood is so much what these works are about. Read more -
Kira Dominguez Hultgren – Intrusions
11 Jan - 29 Feb 2020 Kira Dominguez Hultgren weaves together histories of tangled intrusions nourished on the global confusion of the word Indian . Beginning with two Navajo weavings (artists unknown) from around 1876 and two Punjabi head-coverings embroidered by her great-aunt Dalip Kaur around 1923, Dominguez Hultgren mines with material hyperbole (hyperbolic tension on... Read more -
Chris Russell – Wild Flowers
2 Nov - 14 Dec 2019 The landscapes paintings in Wild Flowers investigate particular outdoor places that Russell has experienced in the Northwest. Diverse climates, specific plants, lichens, rocks, and fungus frequent his paintings. The complex symbiotic relationships of these organisms interweave into maximalist landscapes. Starting from experiences and studies in nature, he then completes his... Read more -
Dana Hemenway – Differently Structured Possibilities
Residency and Solo Exhibition 19 Aug - 26 Oct 2019 Differently Structured Possibilities, is our second solo exhibition by Bay Area artist Dana Hemenway.
In Differently Structured Possibilities Hemenway considers everyday utilitarian objects that help to form our built environments. Hemenway’s practice is rooted in the excavation and elevation of utilitarian objects to make visible what has become habituated. The act of uncovering these invisible structures is analogous to breaking down and revealing less tangible systems that keep power allocated unfairly, specifically as it relates to gender. Read more
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James Chronister – Selections of New Work
13 - 17 Aug 2019 Read more -
What is Left Behind
29 Jun - 3 Aug 2019 Eleanor Harwood Gallery is pleased to present the group exhibition: “What Is Left Behind”. The exhibition is curated by Chloe Ghillani. By investigating the diverse practices of Pegan Brooke, Caroline Charuk, Alika Cooper, Ricki Dwyer, and Margaret Timbrell, “What Is Left Behind” comments on the often overlooked interactions of humans... Read more -
Tiffanie Turner - What Befell Us
19 Apr - 15 Jun 2019 April 12th, 2019 (San Francisco, CA) — Eleanor Harwood Gallery is pleased to present What Befell Us, our first solo show with Tiffanie Turner. What Befell Us is a new body of large-scale botanical sculpture created by Bay Area artist and author Tiffanie Turner. Her new work, the heads of... Read more -
O! ‘darkly, deeply, beautifully blue,’ As some one somewhere sings about the sky, – Lord Byron, Don Juan, 4.110
with James Chronister, Dana Hemenway, Kira Dominguez Hultgren, and Paul Wackers 23 Mar - 13 Apr 2019 Read more
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Resolutions for a New Year
12 Jan - 23 Feb 2019 Eleanor Harwood Gallery is pleased to present “Resolutions for a New Year” with artists Alison Pebworth and Carissa Potter. As the New Year approaches many of us will attempt to come up with some kind of resolution that is aimed at improvement, be it in the arena of the body,... Read more -
William Swanson: Florascape
3 Nov - 15 Dec 2018 Read more -
Paul Wackers - Atmospheres and Environments
8 Sep - 27 Oct 2018 Read more -
Pleasure Garden
7 Jul - 4 Aug 2018 Eleanor Harwood Gallery is pleased to present Pleasure Garden, a group show with Kirk Maxson, Kate Nichols, Anastasia Tumanova, Tiffanie Turner, Paul Wackers and Anna Valdez. The term “Pleasure Garden” came into common usage in the Victorian era, when cities became more dense and people sought a respite from the... Read more
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Kira Dominguez Hultgren - Wingspan
5 May - 23 Jun 2018 Read more -
Erik Parra – History by Choice
3 Mar - 28 Apr 2018 Erik Parra has exhibited internationally in alternative spaces, commercial galleries and museums in Berlin, Brazil, Los Angeles, London and New York. He was born and raised in El Paso-Juárez and currently resides in San Francisco. His solo show, “History by Choice” explores interior spaces and how the history of design... Read more -
Kirk Maxson – Black Elk Speaks
6 Jan - 17 Feb 2018 Eleanor Harwood Gallery is pleased to present Black Elk Speaks , our third solo show with Kirk Maxson. Kirk Maxson has been showing in the Bay Area since 1996, garnering praise and recognition for his meticulous metal works. Black Elk Speaks explores narratives of Native American lineage within real and... Read more -
James Chronister – Glass Summers
28 Oct - 16 Dec 2017 Opening reception: Saturday, November 4th, 6-8pm Show runs: October 28th – December 16th, 2017 View Available works on ARTSY Eleanor Harwood Gallery is pleased to present Glass Summers, our fifth solo show with James Chronister. For Glass Summers, Chronister made six human-sized paintings based on snapshots taken outside of his... Read more
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Jenny Sharaf – PRE-FALL
9 Sep - 21 Oct 2017 Eleanor Harwood Gallery is pleased to present PRE-FALL, our first solo show with Jenny Sharaf . Known for her bold and bright paintings, California artist Jenny Sharaf presents PRE-FALL, a series of new paintings on fabric. Sharaf explores the intersection of contemporary art and fashion, investigating the industry’s constant need... Read more -
Dream House: Rebekah Goldstein, Dana Hemenway, & Mayuko Kono
23 Jun - 29 Jul 2017 Eleanor Harwood Gallery is pleased to present Dream House, a continuation of the exhibition Cut From the Left , which originally exhibited February through March of 2017 at tmoro projects , an exhibition space run by artist and educator Takeshi Moro . The group exhibition by Rebekah Goldstein , Dana... Read more -
Manny Prieres – Meet in the Place Where There is No Darkness
5 May - 17 Jun 2017 Eleanor Harwood Gallery is pleased to present, Meet in the Place Where There is No Darkness, our first solo show with Manny Prieres. The title of the exhibit comes from 1984 by George Orwell. The protagonist (O’Brien) uses this phrase twice. The first time, in a dream, he means to... Read more -
Andy Vogt – Negatives
4 Mar - 29 Apr 2017 Eleanor Harwood Gallery is pleased to present Negatives, our first solo show with Andy Vogt. Andy Vogt has been showing in the Bay Area since 2006, garnering praise and recognition for his reclaimed wood lath sculptures which include flat, wall works and large scale, site-specific interventions. In his new exhibit,... Read more
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Alexis Anne Mackenzie – Never Odd or Even
5 Nov - 17 Dec 2016 Eleanor Harwood Gallery is pleased to present Never Odd or Even, a solo exhibition by Alexis Anne Mackenzie. Using un-retouched found images which have been enlarged, or are pages taken directly from vintage books, Mackenzie physically reworks, interweaves, and overlays images, resulting in her own highly personalized interpretations. In contrast... Read more -
Dana Hemenway – All That Glows Sees
10 Sep - 29 Oct 2016 A lighted lamp in the window watches in the secret heart of night of a gaze imprisoned between its four stone walls. – Christiane Barucoa (from The Poetics of Space by Gaston Bachelard) August 17th, 2016 (San Francisco, CA) —Eleanor Harwood Gallery is pleased to present All That Glows Sees,... Read more -
William Swanson – Bloom Chamber
18 Jun - 6 Aug 2016 Read more -
Paul Wackers - Slow Wave
28 Apr - 11 Jun 2016 Eleanor Harwood Gallery is pleased to present Slow Wave , a solo exhibition by Paul Wackers. The exhibit spans two spaces in the Minnesota Street Project building. Slow Wave is a new series of works continuing and expanding Wackers’ investigations in painting and ceramics. Using his everyday surroundings at home... Read more
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Kirk Maxson – Gardens of Paradise
18 Mar - 23 Apr 2016 Kirk Maxson’s Gardens of Paradise is Eleanor Harwood Gallery’s inaugural show at Minnesota Street Project. Maxson is installing a “Garden of Paradise” as a site for consideration of war and conflict. The Garden is a non-reactionary contemplation of US involvement in current and historical military engagement overseas. The tradition of... Read more -
James Chronister – Better Bowls, More Crackers
16 May - 27 Jun 2015 May 11th, 2015 (San Francisco, CA) – Eleanor Harwood Gallery is pleased to present James Chronister’s new solo show “Better Bowls, More Crackers”. In a studied departure from Chronister’s previous work he presents a series of paintings focused on formalism, gesture and repetition. Since his first solo show with the... Read more -
Alexis Anne Mackenzie – Multiverse
28 Feb - 11 Apr 2015 Alexis Anne Mackenzie’s new show Multiverse explores how minor fluctuations in circumstance, or a slight rearrangement of the same elements, can create a wholly different entity. The term Multiverse is the blanket term for parallel universe theories. Most of Mackenzie’s work over the past year has investigated living a sort... Read more -
Francesca Pastine – Totem
10 Jan - 21 Feb 2015 For Francesca Pastine’s third exhibition, and second solo show with the gallery she further investigates working with her subscription to the New York Times and ARTFORUM magazines as material for her work. She is interested in the complexities between the relationship of form and information that exist in our interaction... Read more
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Paul Wackers - New Works
8 Nov - 20 Dec 2014 Eleanor Harwood Gallery is pleased to present Paul Wackers: New Works, a solo exhibition including acrylic paintings on panel and canvas and ink paintings on paper. This will be the artist’s fourth solo exhibition at the gallery, where the now Brooklyn based artist began showing in 2006. Despite his move... Read more -
William Swanson - Subsurface Continuum
13 Sep - 1 Nov 2014 Read more -
Claire Colette – Small Moves In Strange Rooms
31 May - 12 Jul 2014 This series of drawings explores the phenomenology of rooms as both architectural places we inhabit and interior psychological spaces. Inspired by literature, I treat each drawing as a small narrative, asking to be entered into. I begin each drawing with a series of geometric shapes and through repetitive lines allow... Read more -
Alexis Anne Mackenzie – Synthesis
5 Apr - 10 May 2014 Our Project Space will feature new work by Alexis Anne Mackenzie in Synthesis. Her collages, composed of multiple images sliced and spliced back together in an overlay that marries the outline of forms from both images, can be understood like a film editor’s work, weaving disparate scenes into a story.... Read more
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Kirk Maxson – Foraging
5 Apr - 10 May 2014 Maxson creates hundreds of small hand cut metal leaves arranged in clusters that form large-scale installations, as well as a series of butterflies made from pages of Natural History books, some dating back to the 19th century. The installations are made by individually inserting each petal, leaf or butterfly into... Read more -
James Chronister – Bitterroot
15 Feb - 9 Mar 2014 In his third solo show with the gallery, James Chronister continues his nuanced exploration of themes relating to nostalgia and his own upbringing through his photorealistic paintings of landscapes and rock n’ roll icons. The seemingly disparate genres are united through their personal significance to the artist, who aims to... Read more -
Alika Cooper – Glass
15 Feb - 29 Mar 2014 Alika Cooper returns to the gallery with a second solo show of paintings made of collaged fabric. Appropriating imagery from photographers who range from Irving Penn to Ellen Auerbach, the paintings use an innovative layering technique to move between abstraction and figuration in a way that simultaneously addresses the histories... Read more -
Figure Ground
work by Niv Bavarsky, Samuel Hayes, Will Reed & Mathew Zefeldt, curated by Gideon Chase 10 Jan - 8 Feb 2014 A figure/ground relationship is the interaction between the figure (the foreground) and the ground (the background). Whether it’s being used to describe text (the figure) on a piece of paper (the ground), or the person reading (the figure) and their environment (the ground), art needs both a subject and a... Read more
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split focus
A group show with Renée Gertler, Matt Gil, and Paul Wackers curated by Dan Carlson 20 Jun - 25 Jul 2013 June 6, 2013 (San Francisco, CA) - Eleanor Harwood Gallery is pleased to present split focus, a group show curated by Dan Carlson featuring new works from Renée Gertler, Matt Gil, and Paul Wackers. The three artists were selected for the show based on their creation of abstract sculptural works,... Read more -
Alison Blickle – History of Magic Part 1… The Hermitage
3 May - 15 Jun 2013 The exhibition of new oil paintings and glazed porcelain delves further into Alison’s style of hyper-detailed and fantastical realism. Drawn from a diverse range of influences from the Pre-Raphaelites and the Post-Impressionists, to Russian fairy tale illustration and Art Deco design, the paintings create a tension as this heritage of... Read more -
Mel Davis – Begin Here
15 Mar - 27 Apr 2013 “Could it be that beauty is born of coloured stuff spread out for the love of life?” – Katya Berger Andreadakis With these new paintings, Mel Davis explores the polarities between the natural and the allegorical, the decorative and the expressive, the representational and the gestural. She is engaged in... Read more -
Adam Friedman – Space and Time, and Other Mysterious Aggregations
25 Jan - 2 Mar 2013 Modern societies attempt to understand and explain the mysteries of nature through various tangible human lenses such as science, technology, painting, literature, photography, etc. We also do so through more abstract methods such as “…intangible, metaphorical tools of the mind – contrast, remembrance, analogy…” And in both cases we “bring... Read more
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Gregory Ito – Moonstruck
15 Dec 2012 - 19 Jan 2013 Moonstruck is an exhibition that deconstructs Ito’s impassioned relationship with the Moon, in hopes of connecting viewers with the constant looming presence of the lunar sphere that floats high above us. By referencing domestic spaces, romantic companionship, and his personal history, Ito presents new works that highlight his engagement with... Read more -
Jill Sylvia – Tulipomania
20 Oct - 17 Nov 2012 Tulipomania, or tulip mania, was a period in 17th century Holland during which the contract prices, and demand, for tulip bulbs reached astronomical highs – with single bulbs fetching prices equivalent to those of luxury homes. The flower was such a prized commodity that a futures market developed for the... Read more -
Nu Body
15 Sep - 13 Oct 2012 Curated by Juan Bocca. Nu Body is a group show that deals you the corporeal, clarity and distortion, seduction and sincerity, making and seeing and the softnesses in-between. Nu Body will probe a spiritual/psychic/metaphysical body that can only be felt, a body whose skin stretches over the walls and ceiling,... Read more -
Laura Paulini – SHIMMER
8 Sep - 13 Oct 2012 The paintings for this exhibition, “Shimmer,” were created over the past several years, each stripe and dot meticulously rendered by hand in multiple layers of paint on panel. Due to the juxtaposition of minute changes in hue and value over the painted surfaces, the picture planes appear to vibrate. Waverings,... Read more