Jamali Studio Visit

Harkrader's gallery director, art agent and collector, Cynthia Hinkle, visits Jamali at his studio in Winter Park, Florida., 2005. Hinkle represented Jamali's and Harkrader's work at her Perspective's Gallery located in the West Lake Town Center (SML) Virginia. Jamali, who has created over 60,000 works of art describes his work as 'Mystical Expressionism". Harkrader accompanied Hinkle on the studio visit and captured this unplanned portrait of Hinkle and Jamali.
Jamali's book entitled 'Mystical Expressionism and Dreams' was written by Donald Kispit, author, critic, and professor of Art History and Philosophy and explored Jamali's works and dreams. Harkrader drew multiple ink drawing from life of Kuspit and John Cage when Kuspit was one of the professional speakers at the historic Mountain Lake Art Symposiums and Workshops led by Ray Kass.
http://jamaliartmuseum.com/ / http://raykass.com/html/artists.html

Heat Wave

The ink on paper image is from Harkrader's 'Drawings from Life' at the Mountain Lake Symposiums and Workshops from the decade of the 80's. This drawing is American artist, Keith Sonnier, whom the artist captured while Sonnier spoke.

Since the Dark Skinned Angel has only recently started to focus on my blog, we will recap history along the way. During the month of September and October, 2009 the Montgomery Museum hosted the 'Mountain Lake Workshop Retrospective', thanks to Ray Kass, Founder and Director of theMountain Lake Symposiums and Workshops (http://www.raykass.com/html/artists.html). The museum partnered with the Arts Council of the Blue Ridge to bring this historic exhibit to the New River Valley, home of Mountain Lake.

The above drawing of Sonnier was one of nine Harkrader drawings in that exhibit. There are a total of 33 drawings from life from that decade. Other drawings include; John Cage, Ray Kass, Donald Kuspit, etc. These historic drawings are available for exhibit and acquisition. More details in a future blog.

There is a heat wave--but you will have to visit Charlotte to catch the wave, for there it is a balmy 40 F. Harkrader recalls one temperature experience in Girdwoood Alaska (OMG, you say--another Alaska story?). The temp had been -50 F for 3 weeks. The weather then warmed up to 40 F in a 4 day period (90 degrees). There was 2 inches of ice on the 'inside' of Harkrader's cabin windows. Unocuppied vehicles parked on a slanted lot at Aleyeska Ski Resort slid downhill and pancaked sideways on the rapidly melting ice. Today he is in Charlotte. Harkrader brought his watercolors for quickies.