Harry Ally Opening
Feb 1st, 2010 by scott
One of my favorite contemporary figurative painters is having an opening at the Craighead Green Gallery on Dragon street in Dallas February 20th and I’m hoping to make it up to Dallas for the evening to see this stuff in person.
Harry’s work is a powerful thread of abstracted figurative work on a large scale. He works with house paints and lots of texture, building up layer upon layer off forms and tone to create these haunting and evocative images. There’s a very primitive feel to them reminiscent of cave paintings imprinted into the surface for all time.
Here’s a short documentary about Harry explaining his process and thinking.
Dear Scott,
Thank you for the nice article. Did we get a chance to meet you in Dallas at the opening? It was so very crowded but your name sounds familiar. We hope you will stay in touch. It looks like we have a lot in common. One of our favorite books is Art & Fear. Henri’s book is always a staple & we love Shiele.
OK stay in touch and thanks again
Suzy [& Harry] Ally