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.

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.

Red is Hot! Black is Urban!

This hot red urban action floral is one of Harkrader's latest. Filled with collage of black and white alpha-numeric text, currency from Eastern Europe, clock face language, wallpaper and raised text with faux gold leaf, it is urban. The language is romantic. Love, valentine, touch, voice and other sensory language and pics; combined with the colors of red, black, gray, ochre, green, etc. fill the canvas with urban love language.

Harkrader's Urban series has been a popular series for collectors. This Urban canvas has a soft warm and cool palette with heavy textures. Movement provides a gentle action for the eye as gentle waves of architectural shapes flag in the composition. This movement and the restful areas that surround them sit atop fields of warm earth. This canvas was purchased by an architect for their private residence.