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

"Zippered Landscape"

"Zippered Landscape"

48" x 36" x 4"

Oil on canvas with zippered openings dissected into the canvas face.

Another painting exists behind the main surface.

Floral Abstracts from the Corolla Series

Two large commissioned painting were installed on the 16th floor of AECOM corporate lobby. Large floral abstracts titled 'Floral Architecture' & 'Symphonic Floral'.

From the Harkrader ‘Corolla Series’:

Canvas title for 36x66 = Symphonic Floral (a musical composition, many times in four movements and my flowers represent the movement)

Canvas title for 60x66 = Floral Architecture (relates to the environment in which flowers live and/or to the structure of the flower itself - ‘Biomimicry’)

Vessel IV

This painting was sold by my Philadelphia art agent, Ron Crider, to a collector in New York. Titled 'Vessel IV', this mixed medium painting is "36x48", heavily textured and some of the raised medium is lightly rubbed with 'faux gold'. Elevated text, lines, and pours accompany deep layers of paint and medium to give the surface a 3-dimensional quality. Some of the raised text read as 'sexinthecitynewversionxxx&other'. Below the depth layers reside one minimal collage element. The collector who bought this canvas also bought 'Vessel III'. Artist agents generally do not disclose their clients to the artist; therefore I solicit the collector who purchased these canvases contibute to the provenance by contacting the artist at http://www.harkraderx.com/

Vessel IV