Andrea Harrison

AJ Harrison is a painter who studied with various American artists including Arnold Mesches, Paul Brach, Mira Schorr, and British artists Paula Rego, Stuart Brisley, and John Hoyland. She has collaborated with Italian tech artist and architect Daniela Bertol as part of her Ideal Cities project. Harrison developed a style that alludes to sources as diverse as Pieter Brueghel, Giorgio de Chirico, and Samuel Beckett. Her still landscapes, with architectural ruins, lifeless lyrical trees, and scampering people refer to the world as a stage--a world where both acts of kindness and evil reign. Her latest work includes birds as witnesses. Using various media, her work seems as slick as a lithograph although it is made of layers and layers of acrylic media and chalk.

I am an artist, art educator, and disability advocate.  My work, in black and white, reflects on human behavior and how, despite the passage of time, people still do what they always have done--no matter how good or bad.  Using everyman figures or animals as witnesses, in a barren landscape, I share scenes that are a translation of the questions that I ask myself about human interaction .  Using mixed media, my paintings are built of many layers to reveal a resonant surface.  I hope to deliver some gravity through my visual offerings.  It is my intention to inspire thought in the viewer.

February 1990 MA New York University

May 1985 Postgraduate Certificate in Painting, The Slade School of Fine Art, London, England

May 1984 BA Colgate University

January 2000 Group Exhibition.  Hudson Valley Institute for Art and Photographic Resources

September-December 1999 Solo Show.  Pfeiffer Gallery. Stuttgart, Germany

June 1999 Project Renewal Bowery Foundation Show

July-August 1998 Solo Show.  Pfeiffer Gallery.  Stuttgart Germany

July-August 1997 Solo Show.  Catskill Art Society.  Hurleyville, New York

December 1996 Group Show/Juried.  Ceres Gallery.  New York, New York

March 1995.  Convergence.  Lecture and Installation.  Connecticut College, New London, CT

September 1992 Collaborative Installation with Daniela Bertol.  Fairleigh Dickinson University, Rutherford, NJ.

November 1989 One Woman Show.  Washington Square East Galleries, NYU, New York, New York.

September 1989 One Woman Show, Visiting Lecturer.  Colgate University, Hamilton, NY.

September 1988 Group Show.  Foundation for Integrative Research, New York, New York

May 1988 Group Show CTG Fine Art, New York, New York

October 1987 Group Show CTG Fine Art, New York, New York

Publications/Reviews/Features :  The Colgate Scene, Art Speak, Leonberger Kreiszeitung, Newark Star Ledger, New York Daily News, New York Times, The Catskill/Ulster Jewish Star, The Times Herald Record

Private Collections:  Energie Baden-Württemberg AG, Karlsruhe and Stuttgart Germany

Minister Monheim Khalifa, Cairo, Egypt

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