Opening Reception

Friday, May 5, 7-9 pm

Self-taught Virginia artist Tim Harriss simultaneously emulates and subverts the portrait paintings of Old Masters, morphing a subject’s features beyond characterization into the realm of measured abstraction.

In Mostly Bouguereau, Harriss has again pushed the boundaries of representation even further, this time stopping just before the subject is entirely beyond recognition. “I’ve specifically chosen to reinterpret these particular works by William Adolphe Bouguereau, Abbott Handerson Thayer, Sally Mann, and Jacob van Oost because each is well composed and technically precise and all provide enormous inspiration for exploratory abstraction.”

Exhibition runs through June 16, 2023.