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Impromptu
Monotype, 1997
image size: 15 3/4 x 10 1/4"
paper size: 17 3/4 x 12 1/4"
Prices available upon request
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"From imagination and memory, I draw boldly with fluid inks,
constructing forms to expose the emotive power of physical, tactile
imagery. Through many re-configurations of what first emerges on a
plate, intensities of color and movement arise. Jerry-rigged
assemblies, sometimes fortress-like in appearance, get built up and
'set' in ambiguous spaces. Mix-ups in 'representation' occur. If all
goes well, space becomes alive in its compression, ordinary objects
become mutable, and unnamable forms adopt the authority of
'thingness'. Estrangement compels the surprise necessary to finish a
picture. For me, the whole ensemble becomes a curiosity, the way
driftwood piled high on a beach or junk piled up in a studio corner
can suggest a drama. A finished picture must feel at least as real as
an unexpected or dismantled monument."
William Harsh
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Farrago
Monotype
image size: 23 x 18 1/2"
paper size: 25 x 20 1/2"
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Muffled
Monotype
Image size: 1/4 x 16 3/4"
Paper size: 28 1/4 x 18 3/4"
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William Harsh is a representational painter and printmaker living and
working in the San Francisco Bay Area with over 25 years of dedicated
studio practice. He works extensively with the monotype medium, and
his prints are included in numerous private collections in the US,
Canada, and Europe. Raised in Europe and the US, he studied with
Philip Guston and James Weeks at Boston University. He has taught
studio art at colleges in New England and California and currently
teaches monotype printmaking classes and workshops. More of his works can be seen at: www.williamharsh.com
William Harsh in his Benicia, California studio
January 2003 |
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