Midnight Picnic

Alexander Harrison

Midnight Picnic, 202112.7 x 17.8cmSign in to view price
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acrylic on panelVarious Small Fires
Description
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The artwork features a large, vibrant slice of watermelon against a checkered black and white background. The colors are bold, with the deep red of the watermelon flesh contrasting sharply with the green rind and black backdrop. The composition emphasizes the curvature and texture of the fruit, showcasing the artist's skilled use of paint to capture its fleshy, juicy quality. This playful still life painting likely draws inspiration from the Pop Art movement's celebration of everyday consumer objects, inviting the viewer to appreciate the inherent beauty and visual appeal of this simple, summery fruit. ...

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Light of Mine
Artist
Alexander Harrison
B.1993, American

Exploring questions of race and personal and universal notions of home, Alexander Harrison creates small-scaled, subtle yet stark acrylic paintings, often placing his subject within the dazzling composition of frames, windows and arches. They often feature recurring symbols, such as fruits, flowers and figures. Harrison’s work is racially charged iconography. His vivid painting Welcome to New York (2019) depicts a Black cowboy taking a bite out of an apple. From inside the apple, a small but sinister worm emerges. Harrison’s trompe l’oeil paintings are at once spacious and claustrophobic, drawing on his experience growing up as a Black man in the American South. The familiarity of rural landscapes and everyday objects becomes twisted in the eerie atmosphere of the artist’s dark surrealism. Written by Goldsmiths CCA ...

Alexander Harrison: Artworks
Let the sun in
Alexander Harrison
Let the sun in, 2019
61 x 45.7 x 5.1cm
Spring n’ Fall
Alexander Harrison
Spring n’ Fall, 2019
122 x 106.6 x 5.7cm
Quiet
Alexander Harrison
Quiet, 2019
25.4 x 25.4 x 5.7cm
Gimme Flowers
Alexander Harrison
Gimme Flowers, 2019
20.3 x 20.3 x 5cm
The Moon
Alexander Harrison
The Moon, 2021
76.2 x 76.2cm
Butterfly “Spring Breeze”
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Butterfly “Spring Breeze”, 2019
40.6 x 40.6 x 5cm
Golden Hour
Alexander Harrison
Golden Hour, 2019
61 x 46 x 5cm
Light of Mine
Alexander Harrison
Light of Mine, 2021
91.4 x 76.2cm
If I Had one Wish
Alexander Harrison
If I Had one Wish, 2021
12.7 x 17.8cm
Midnight Picnic
Alexander Harrison
Midnight Picnic, 2021
12.7 x 17.8cm
Counting Sheep
Alexander Harrison
Counting Sheep, 2021
20.3 x 20.3cm
Blue Bruise
Alexander Harrison
Blue Bruise, 2021
20.3 x 20.3cm
Various Small Fires
Gallery
Various Small Fires
Los Angeles, Seoul, Dallas

Various Small Fires (Los Angeles /Dallas /Seoul) began as a series of conversations with artists and curators in Esther Kim Varet’s Venice Beach kitchen while working on her doctoral dissertation. VSF debuted in Hollywood as an official gallery in 2015 with a roster of artists and its current Johnston MarkLee Architects-designed building. The Hollywood gallery contains three exhibition spaces, a unique sound corridor, and an outdoor gallery. VSF’s exhibition program explores several curatorial lines: climate, equality, and an international conversation. The gallery is known for offering artists debut shows, creating intergenerational conversations among the artists on its roster, and solidifying artists’ legacies within art history. In 2019, VSF opened a second location in the Hannam neighbourhood of Seoul, South Korea, followed recently this Spring by VSFs third outpost in Dallas, Texas. While Varet has very personal connections to both locations, they are also superlative art communities. These expansions emphasise the gallery’s commitment to innovation and global dialogue in the twenty-first century. In 2021, VSF became a member of the Art Dealers Association of America (ADAA). ...

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