SOLD: Season Color Anaylsis I & II

"Season Color Anaylsis I & II"
48" x 30" / Diptych

Detail / Floral Object Assembly

Detail of 'Communion': Floral composition / found object assembly. This Harkrader composition consist of an open-faced cordless handset (communication) that is embellished with crystals, glass and metal, all residing on the face of the motherboard of the cordless instrument. Symbolic of communication, hence; communion, which may be interpreted as a means of contact with the supernatural, a higher being, a celebration of the body of Christ, humanity, and ourselves as we 'talk to ourselves' when no one else will listen. This composition is symbolic, elegant, feminine, urban and delicate.

Acqua di Fiori Essenziale Now Exhibiting at Signature 9 Gallery

Acqua di Fiori Essenziale (Essence of the Water Flower)

Harkrader's new painting from his 'Corolla' series is now exhibiting at the Signature 9 Gallery.

Mixed media and medium on Canvas

60 inches x 48 inches

New Sculpture In Progress / Detail Floral

Check back for the title of this small floral sculpture in progress. Harkrader's sculpture is, at times, created in parallel to the paintings on canvas. For example, the floral abstracts series may be in two dimensional canvas and 3D sculpture.

Swarovski Crystal Lives Here

Swarovski crystal lives here. Harkrader has used Swarovski crystals on the face of paintings and sculpture. "Acqua di Fiori Essenziale" (detail) has within its composition face a single tiny red Swarovski crystal that resides in the top-center of the large black shape embedded on the canvas face located at the tail of one of the wandering black fibers.
http://www.swarovski.com/Web_US/de/index

October 2010

RedSky Gallery will feature a full page in the October 2010. The Harkrader painting (top right) is from the 'Corolla Series'. Also shown in this image is the figurative work of Jylian Gustlin.
http://www.jyliangustlin.com/
This image is 'detail' of the full page.

Addio Vento Floreale

Goodbye Vento Floreale! The beauty of your wind blown flowers
will be missed. Thanks to RedSky Gallery you have found a
home (AC). May the path of your wind blown fragrance
and the olfaction of the artist

cross again in some future garden of Mother Nature.

Floral Abstract In Progress

The Floral Abstract is in progress. Canvas size is 36x48 / mixed media with embedded fibers and collage elements. Thick paint with pumice textures. Greek text from antique book. Nude language all but concealed.
Floral shapes with vase/vessel.

Vento Floreale

Wind blown botanicals or 'Vento Floreale' 36x48. The action compositions of the 'Corolla' abstract floral series continue with the completion of the canvas above. A garden of wind blown erotica; pedals, anthers, stigma, style, ovary and eggs may be analogous to the feminine and it's complement, the masculine / or the Mars-Venus. Minimum collage and embedded fibers on the left vertical and the wandering mimicry of the floral motifs by the same gauge black fiber that meander around add a gentle action to the center composition.

RedSky Inventory Includes Harkrader Abstract

RedSky Gallery inventory of Harkrader canvases include the floral abstract from the Corolla series, 'Botanical Abstract'. RedSky selected 11 Harkrader canvases to exhibit at their 3 galleries located in Charlotte. This canvas carries repeated motifs from his other floral abstracts. These motifs are surround by a thin wash of color earth as background and the gentle movement of multiple knife applications of thick color that dance around the canvas.

Artist In Action

Harkrader In Action on a new floral. The studio is packed with over 50 paintings. It is getting hard to manuver, but as the old expression says; 'the mail must get through'. The collage pile is on the red carpet. Rugs, carpets and mats protect the floor. Paint can be thrown or flipped through the air, hence the plastic curtains. A completed floral in the foreground, an in-progress behind the stool and a new diptych is launched on the easel.

New Snow Coming & 'Vase' is Available

Another new snow is coming to Roanoke. The third white blanket will sit atop the existing 6 inches remaining from last weekends carpet of white on the South Roanoke mountainside. Streets will close, children will sleigh and board, and parents will shovel. A magical time to be mountainside above Crystal Springs Village.

Studio work today after an art related trip to Charlotte on Monday through Wednesday. Harkrader procurred a new canvas (48"x36") for another floral abstract. A sketch was rendered on the canvas in preparation for the first layer of color wash.

Harkrader and the Dark Skinned Angel laid the 'Vase' painting above onto the existing 6 inch snow base outside the studio. The painting was so hot, it melted the snow and singed the sidewalk below... : ) The 48x36 mixed medium/media canvas is embedded with greek text from an antique book, collage and glass. Laying across the top of the canvas is the red vase. The red texture on the top edge of the vase rises up to 3/8" thick. An incrediable 3D effect is portrayed due to the embedded depth below the mediums and the topmost textures above. This canvas is available and it will melt ice.

Floral Abstract Earth is Available

Floral Abstract Earth is complete and was photographed for the archives today. This painting is from the 'Corolla' series that follows the paintings recently sold & blogged in December and January posts. The size is 36"x48" and the medium is mixed. Three black fibers run vertically down the left and right side of the front plane. The palette colors are softer than earlier versions; earthly & less action which slows the canvas down in a restful manner. Areas around the yellow floral are extremely deep with medium giving this and the entire canvas an exceptionally 3D quality when viewed close up. The canvas has been in progress for about 6 weeks. Support my work by purchasing this canvas. For details, visit my website to leave me a message.

http://www.harkraderx.com/