Happy New Year Canvas Sculpture (detail)

Urban canvas (detail).

Diodes, resistors, plastic, heat sinks, fibers, and copper reside on this canvas face. The same media and medium lie embedded in the epoxy, resin, and color medium mix that cover the canvas and submerge the elements. Urban and  masculine with a touch of feminine as the circle of green fiber reside in the connector sphere. A landscape of earth and urban, organic and digital, masculine and feminine, canvas and sculpture combined into one work of art fabricated to hang on a vertical surface.

Compositions Composition

The composition above has a very granular and textured surface that is embedded with sand, pumice, glass, plastic and fibers. 'Composition' from the Lyric series has very lyrical language. The shapes with fibers are instrument like, musical, an invitation to perform a stringed instrument. Antique sheet music and Greek text collage is embedded in addition to a 3 dimensional element of a black and white gently curved earpiece from a set of eyeglasses that compliment the flow. Other shapes within the composition mimic the bodies of instruments, a cross or crossroads, all surrounded by a heavily textured warm background of gray. 36x48 inches.

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.

Word 200 Evolved From European Travels

This 'Word 200' Harkrader canvas evolved from bits and pieces of acquired Eastern and Western Europe. Collages include Greek text, European currency, fiber and other memorabilia. A canvas in which the 'white' floats above the earthy excavation like shapes below. White can represent purity and freedom, but also provide contrast to the surrounding colors of black and color. All the colors on this canvas seem to absorb as opposed to reflect. This canvas resides in the Harkrader collection and may be available. (Sold:Michael&Ellen@Naples)