Elle on Rhine

Elle on the Rhine 2019

Photo by Harkrader

Gablik

Harkrader's portrait of Gablik.

Gablik's table candles compostion.

Harkrader Summer Studio

Harkrader Summer Studio 2019
Self portrait with Tripod

ChaShaMa 2019 at One World Trade Center NYC

Harkrader exhibition image ("Redemption: Phase Four")

created using three Harkrader European photographs

and layer editing using Affinity Photo software.

One World Trade by Harkrader

International Group Exhibition: 66th Floor

A view of Manhattan from the 66th floor of

One World Trade Center.

NYC

                                                  Walking from Hotel to World Trade Center

ChaShaMa Gala Pre-Party Culture / Manhattan Architecture

Harkrader photographs:

Oculus, World Trade Center Memorial,

Empire State Building, and Manhattan architecture.

911 Memorial

Red Skeleton

Night of Kong

Bride of High Line

A self portrait of Harkrader from the

late 80s or early 90s.

An amazingly minimal line drawing

in ink, executed in one never-ending

line. The pen never leaves the paper,

from the beginning until the end.

Hawkins Homeplace

An ink study for the Hawkins Homeplace painting

that Harkrader was commissioned to paint for the

Hawkins family located in Russell County, Virginia

Signed: Chico Harkrader and dated 1978.

Harkrader was in this region, working as a lineman

for C&P Telephone at the time.

Harkrader Childhood Village

Rt. 600 leading into

Parrott, Virginia, childhood home of Harkrader.

Parrott is unique because there is only one way

in and one way out. Near the brick house is

Back Creek and at one time only a single lane bridge.

Near that point, Rt. 600 splits into three roads,

the River Road, the Mountain Road and

the Creek Road. All three dead-end. To depart,

one must return the way they entered.

A palette knife painting by Harkrader in the 90s.

Harkrader Antique Oil on Canvas

Recently spotted in an Antique Shop in Virginia, this Harkrader

oil on canvas street scene of Manhattan was painted in the

early 90s after a December 1991 trip with his wife,

Ellen Lee. They stayed at the Paramount Hotel

on W 46th Street. Harkrader rendered many

of his street-scenes as nocturnes with wet

urban reflections.

Four Homes for Harkrader Paintings

"Nuevo Botanico" (New Botanicals)

36" x 48" / Mixed Mediums

Media = fibers, collage, pumice & leaf.

Collector = Roanoke

"Fire & Ice"

48" x 48" / Oil on canvas

Collector located in Texas

"Sun Song III"

24" 36"

Acrylic Polymer on Canvas with fibers

Collector = Smith Mountain Lake

"Vase"

48" x 36" Mixed Mediums

w/ glass, collage, sand, vintage music.

Collector = Floyd

Creative Culture of Eastport Maine

Every other person we met in Eastport

was an artist, writer, musician or craftsman.

Eastport, Maine

Harkrader harbor photos of the seaport

of Eastport, Maine following a recent visit.

High resolution images available.

Heidi @ Eastport

Heidi lives in a late 1800's store front in the seaport

town of Easport, Maine. This historical structure was

once owned by a family who manufactored

and sold candy. The upstairs is one of the

warmest and most pleasant living rooms one

could experience. Heidi and Ellen sit

and chat one September morning 2018. 

From the 'Corolla' series

A rhapsody of dance and color.

by Harkrader

Collection AECOM

Rome Us near Romulus

Harkrader and Bride 2007

Rome, Italy

Trevi Fountain by Nicola Salvi 1762

Picasso and Harkrader in Paris

Harkrader and Picasso in Paris 2004

photo courtesy Ellen Harkrader

"Dog Sings Acapella"

"DOG SINGS ACAPELLA"

by Harkrader

Available

12" x 16"

Mixed Medium on Corragated Board

"Vase"

"Vase"

48" x 36"

SOLD

“VASE”

by Harkrader

I painted a vase as primary in a composition due to the remarkable meaning that a vase conveys, A vase is a vessel that typically holds cut flowers hence its place in my ‘Corolla’ series.

My heavily textured vase is red, symbolic of strength and power as well as passion and desire. The vase’s universal feminine shape is graceful and may hold the fertilizing power of water or other life giving liquid. Feel her heavily textured veneer that is resistant to damage or adverse effects—but is fragile too.

This vase is native earth—a female deity. A vase is a maternal wellspring and for that reason controls eternal life. The vase is sexual and nurturing, with a womb-like function that stores, transports, serves and quenches thirst. Her shape is calyx—a cup-like cavity that supports the flowering buds in her garden environment. A vessel of spiritual abundance, worthy of providing gifts to gods and represents peace and safety for that which lives within.

Sand and pumice was mixed into red cadmium to create my vase’s skin and she sits atop the canvas face surrounded by broad golden earth colors and their tertiary compliment—purple. Aqua lives peacefully next to its compliment—red orange. Embedded glass allows us a new version of seeing because below the glass surface lives another layer which represents a new perspective of hope in our afterlife. A collage with vintage music represents another form of communication when words fail.

Painted while Harkrader was working at his Roanoke City downtown location on Church Avenue—not too long after he moved from Studios Off the Square Studios on Campbell Avenue. Harkrader shared a store front on Church Ave. with Atturro Zanella, master framer, who presently resides in Los Angeles.

‘Vase’ is from Harkrader’s Corolla Series, most of which are abstract floral compositions that were sold by Pamela Jean Gallery in Roanoke, Red Sky Gallery in Charlotte, Little Gallery at West Lake Town Center and from Harkrader’s studio on Church Avenue and later his studio on Albemarle Avenue.