Michael Harnish: Efflorescence
3004 Lincoln blvd, Santa Monica, CA, 90405
Friday, February 22 at 6:00 PM 9:00 PM
Ends Mar 24, 2019
Based out of the Los Angeles area, Michael Harnish is a key painter in the development of contemporary art making. His work is the product of a pioneering vision with sensitivity to principles of collage, color, and a relationship to art historical lineages. 'Efflorescence' will feature Harnish’s latest body of paintings based on paper collages, which have been crafted over the course of several years. The preliminary images are pulled from fashion magazines and scholastic plant texts books to form unlike relationships. These images demonstrate the convergence of both representation and abstraction by means of experimentation in collage and allow for a broad range of painting traditions. Made using muted pastel tones alongside fluorescent passages, these paintings generate complex and unconventional optical events for the viewers.