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- Artist Name:
- Chico Harkrader
- Location:
- virginia
- Statement:
- A canvas presents a stage for me to examine the visually driven attributes of light, perspective, color, form, and movement. Past experiences, present environment, imagination, and experimentation with mixed media allow me to echo my passions, peace, or pleasure. Creations from impressions encountered in urban, rural, or figurative life evolve abstractly.
Harkrader
- Biography:
- Harkrader is a mid-career professional Virginia artist who works in a city center studio. His work is represented by Aaron Gallery in Washington, DC, Edge Gallery in Philadelphia, PA, and Pamela Jean Gallery in Roanoke, VA. Online, his work appears on YouTube, artists.de, Saatchi, and Artist Space-Irving Sandler’s artist files. Curator and former Smithsonian research fellow, Anna Fariello, wrote, “Harkrader’s abstract expressionist images…display a wonderful sense of movement that contributes to a feeling of fluidity and energy…and allows the viewer to visually penetrate the painting by implying depth within the composition.” Writer and art representative, Cynthia Hinkle, wrote “…his paintings impart an immediate visual excitement and emotion.”
Harkrader’s bibliographies include, NeoImages, 2008; Studio Visit, Open Press Studio 2008, Art In America, Sourcebook to the US Art World, Annual Guide, Artist Index, Summer 2006; Letter, Anna Fariello, Director, Curatorial InSight, 2004; Piedmont Style, “A Glimpse into the Life of a True Artist, Cynthia Hinkle, 2004; Catalog, “Reflections on the River”, Radford University Art Museum, 2002; Catalog, “Artemis XIII,” Artemis/Artists & Writers, Inc, 1990, and others.
Harkrader’s exhibitions at Aaron Gallery, Washington DC, one of the top 10 cities in the world to view art, witnessed DC collectors acquiring his work. Edge Gallery in Philadelphia sold 6 painting in 2009. His solo exhibition at Virginia Tech University in 2005 was very successful and culminated in university purchases of three Harkrader paintings for their permanent collection. He has had solo exhibitions at the Staunton Fine Art Center, the Bluefield Fine Art Center, and the New River Valley Fine Art Center. He has been in group exhibitions in other Eastern U.S. museums and galleries including O. Winston Link Museum, Radford University Art Museum in Virginia and the Sawtooth Center of Visual Design in Winston Salem, North Carolina. His work is in public and corporate collections. These include AECOM for two large commissions for their corporate lobby in 2009, Central Paper Company, WI; Salem Orthopedic Association, NC; Montgomery Museum, VA; medical and architectural firms, and many private collections from Alaska to Australia.
Harkrader attended the historic Mountain Lake Symposiums and Workshops. These historic conferences led by foremost artists and critics included Kuspit, Cage, Kass, Greenberg, Finster, Miller, Sonnier, Thiebaud and others. These symposiums and workshops provided valuable insight from a rare assembly of experts. Harkrader’s Mountain Lake drawings and notes captured from life on location provides a view from the audience perspective. Most recently Harkrader attended the Web Flash Festival & Conference, hosted at the Centre Pompidou, Paris France, 2007.
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