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Artist Statement:
A close connection with the
animal nature has helped me to
have more empathy with all
manifestations of the life
force, and to express the
complex experience of what it
is to be here as a flesh and
blood being.
As long as I can remember, I
have loved animals ...
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Artist Galleries:
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Artist Reviews:
Essay by George Quasha.
copyright 2001
Reading by George Quasha,
9/15/01
Kleinert/James Arts Center,
Woodstock, New York
Crossing Over to Jan Harrison
One reason why we don't easily
experience other dimensions is
our fear of
meeting up with monstrous
otherness. We fear fusion. We
are careful ...
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Collections:
Jan Harrison
PUBLIC COLLECTIONS:
THE WEXNER CENTER FOR THE
VISUAL ARTS, Columbus, Ohio,
USA
SAMUEL DORSKY MUSEUM OF ART,
New Paltz, New York, USA
CINCINNATI ART MUSEUM,
Cincinnati, Ohio, USA
ARCO CENTER FOR THE VISUAL
ARTS, Los Angeles, California,
USA
CINCINNATI BELL CORPORATION,
Cincinnati, Ohio, USA
THE DAYTON ART INSTITUTE, ...
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Commissions:
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JAN HARRISON
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS:
5/2008 “The Sparky Show,” SCHROEDER ROMERO / WINKLEMAN Gallery Project Space, New York, New York. (Curator: Nelson Santos)
3/2008 “Women Working Outside the Box,” BARRETT HOUSE CLAY WORKS, Poughkeepsie, New York.
2/2008 “The Dream of The Red Chamber Masquerade Ball,” Invitational, WHITE BOX, New York, New York.
12/2007 “Postcards From the Edge,” VISUAL AIDS, James Cohan Gallery, New York, New York.
5/2007 “Bestial Beings,” CABARET VOLTAIRE ART CENTER, Poughkeepsie, New York. (Curators: Alan Baer, Sukran Aziz) (solo exhibition)
5/2007 “White Box Benefit Auction,” WHITE BOX, New York, New York.
3/2007 “Beyond Self: Contemporary Explorations in Art & Spirit,” MUROFF KOTLER VISUAL ARTS GALLERY, Stone Ridge, New York. (Jurors: Linda Montano and Beth Wilson)(group exhibition)
1/2007 “Museum Mission and Meaning: Selections From the Collections,” SAMUEL DORSKY MUSEUM OF ART, New Paltz, New York. (Curator: Brian Wallace)
12/2006 “Postcards From the Edge” Visual AIDS, SIKKEMA, JENKINS & CO., New York, New York.
12/2006 “5 x 7 Show,” KLEINERT/JAMES ART CENTER, Woodstock, New York.
3/2006 “7 + 14 ,” KLEINERT/JAMES ART CENTER, Woodstock, New York. (Curator: Bette Korman)(group exhibition)
11/2005 “White Box Benefit Auction,” WHITE BOX GALLERY, New York, New York.
10/2005 “Sentient Animals,” THE GALLERY AT R & F, Kingston, New York. (Curator: Laura Moriarty) (solo exhibition)
9/2005 “Encaustic Works 2005,” SAMUEL DORSKY MUSEUM OF ART, New Paltz, New York. (Curators: Karl Willers and Beth Wilson) (catalogue)
6/2005 Old & New Friends, (Curator: Elisa Pritzker) ELISA PRITZKER GALLERY, Highland, New York
4/2005 “Ideas Into Objects: Reinterpreting The Notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci,” ALICE F. AND HARRIS K. WESTON ART GALLERY, Aronoff Center for the Arts, Cincinnati, Ohio. (Curator: Kip Eagen)
12/2004 “White Box Benefit Auction,” WHITE BOX GALLERY, New York, New York.
5/2003 “Making Their Mark,” CINCINNATI ART MUSEUM, Cincinnati, Ohio. (Drawings and paintings from the Permanent Collection.) (Curator: Kristin Spangenberg)
1/2003 “Mythic Creatures: Spirits of Animals both Real and Imagined,” CATSKILL MOUNTAIN FOUNDATION GALLERY, Hunter, New York. (Curator: Fawn Potash)
6/2002 “Past To Present: Recent Acquisitions, Promised Gifts, and Selected Loans,” SAMUEL DORSKY MUSEUM OF ART, New Paltz, New York.
9/2001 “Chaosmos,” KLEINERT/JAMES ARTS CENTER, Woodstock, New York (gallery interview by Linda Weintraub) (solo exhibition)
4/2000 “Animal.Anima.Animus,” THE WINNIPEG ART GALLERY, Winnipeg, Canada (Curators: Linda Weintraub and Marketta Seppala) (catalogue/book)
6/1999 “Animal.Anima.Animus,” P.S.1 CONTEMPORARY ART CENTER, Long Island City, New York (catalogue/book)
4/1999 “Arcana Mundi,” ALICE F. AND HARRIS K. WESTON ART GALLERY, Aronoff Center for the Arts, Cincinnati, Ohio (solo exhibition)
11/1998 “Animal.Anima.Animus,” MUSEUM VOOR MODERNE KUNST, Arnhem, Holland (catalogue/book)
6/1998 “Animal.Anima.Animus,” PORI CONTEMPORARY ART MUSEUM, Pori, Finland (“Animal Tongues” installation: sculpture and audio art, along with separate installation of six paintings. (Curators: Linda Weintraub and Marketta Seppala) (catalogue/book)
2/1996 “Animal Crossing,” NANCY MOORE FINE ART, New York, NY (solo exhibition of paintings and sculpture)
12/1995 “Bestial Angels,” Historical overview of the Animal in art, WILLIAM KING REGIONAL ART CENTER, Abingdon, Virginia (Curator: Carolyn Eyler) ) (catalogue)
6/1994 “Waterworks,” Outdoor Sculpture, ELENA ZANG GALLERY, Woodstock, New York
1/1994 “The Definitive Contemporary American Quilt,” HOSTRA UNIVERSITY, New York (catalogue)
11/1993 “Animal Tongues,” WOMEN'S STUDIO WORKSHOP, Rosendale, New York (solo exhibition)
10/1992 “Body & Soul,” WARREN STREET GALLERY, Hudson, New York (Curators: Kiki Smith and Laura Battle)
10/1992 “Tyrra Vas Terra,” DONSKOJ & CO., Kingston, New York (solo exhibition)
5/1992 “Jan Harrison,” SUNNEN GALLERY, New York, NY (solo exhibition)
8/1991 “Group Exhibition,” WILLOUGHBY SHARP GALLERY, New York, NY
7/1991 “Hudson Valley Artists ’91, Myth, Spirituality and Culture, “ COLLEGE ART GALLERY, State University of New York at New Paltz, New Paltz, New York (Jurors: Connie Butler, Artists Space, and Gary Sangster, The New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York, NY)
12/1990 “The Definitive Contemporary American Quilt,” BERNICE STEINBAUM GALLERY, New York, NY (Exhibition traveled to eighteen museums throughout the United States) (catalogue)
4/1990 “Chicago International Art Exposition – Navy Pier Show,” DART GALLERY, Chicago, Illinois (Curator: Lance Kinz) (Exhibited in 1990, 1989, and 1988)
6/1988 “A Perilous Eden,” CHIDLAW GALLERY, ART ACADEMY OF CINCINNATI, Cincinnati, Ohio (solo exhibition)
4/1988 “Object-Image-Icon,” THE CONTEMPORARY ARTS CENTRE, Adelaide, Australia (catalogue)
7/1987 “The 1987 Ohio Selections– Graphics,” DAYTON ART INSTITUTE, Dayton, Ohio (Curator: Dominique H. Vasseur) (catalogue)
9/1986 “Divining House,” THE CONTEMPORARY ARTS CENTER, Cincinnati, Ohio (collaboration with Alan Baer, architect) (funded by The Ohio Arts Council)
7/1986 “New Sites/New Work,” The First San Jose Biennial, THE SAN JOSE INSTITUTE OF CONTEMPORARY ART, San Jose, California (catalogue)
5/1986 “Interface: Outsiders & Insiders,” OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY, Lancaster, Ohio (Curator: Gary Schwindler) (catalogue)
7/1984 “New Acquisitions,” THE WEXNER CENTER FOR CONTEMPORARY ART, Columbus, Ohio (Curators: Jonathon Green, Michael Jones, and Donald Kuspit. )
3/1984 “Figuratively Speaking II,” CLEVELAND STATE UNIVERSITY ART GALLERY, Cleveland, Ohio (Curator: Lance Kinz)
1/1984 “Cincinnati Selections,” 1984 Cincinnati Art Museum Invitational, CINCINNATI ART MUSEUM, Cincinnati, Ohio (catalogue)
10/1983 “Jan Harrison,” TONI BIRCKHEAD GALLERY, Cincinnati, Ohio (solo exhibition)
4/1983 “Jan Harrison,” HOBART & WILLIAM SMITH COLLEGES, Geneva, New York (solo exhibition)
6/1982 “Ohio Selections II,” NEW GALLERY OF CONTEMPORARY ART, Cleveland, Ohio
2/1982 “Emerging Talent,” WRIGHT STATE UNIVERSITY, Dayton, Ohio (Curator: Betty Collings) (solo exhibition) (catalogue)
7/1981 “Cincinnati Art Museum Invitational,” CINCINNATI ART MUSEUM, Cincinnati, Ohio (Curator: Kristin Spangenberg) (catalogue)
1/1981 “Animal Wishes/Animal Desires,” CAGE GALLERY, Cincinnati, Ohio (solo exhibition)
10/1980 “Cincinnati Stories, An Exhibition of Narrative-Figurative Art,” SPACES, Cleveland, Ohio
8/1979 “Strategies,” THE CONTEMPORARY ARTS CENTER, Cincinnati, Ohio (Curator: Ruth Meyer)
BIBLIOGRAPHY: SELECTED CATALOGUES AND BOOKS:
2008 WHO’S WHO in American Art, 2008-2009, Marquis Who’s Who.
2007 WHO’S WHO in American Art, 2007-2008, Marquis Who’s Who.
2006 WHO’S WHO in American Women, 25th Edition, Marquis Who’s Who.
2005 ENCAUSTIC WORKS 2005, Karl Emil Willers and Beth E. Wilson, Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art, New Paltz, NY.
2003 IN THE MAKING: Creative Options for Contemporary Art, Linda Weintraub, ©2003, d.a.p., Distributed Art Publishers, New York, NY.
2002 FACE OF THE DEEP, A Theology of Becoming, Catherine Keller, Routledge Press, London, England.
2001 ARCANA MUNDI, Jan Harrison, Selected Works, 1979-2000, Station Hill/Barrytown, Ltd., New York, ©2001, Essay by Linda Weintraub,“Genus Fusion.”
1998 ANIMAL.ANIMA.ANIMUS, Pori Contemporary Art Museum Publications/FRAME Publications, Pori, Finland, ©1998, Essay by Linda Weintraub,“Genus Fusion,” Co-Curator with Marketta Seppälä.
1995 BESTIAL ANGELS, (Historical Overview of the Animal in Art), William King Regional Arts Center, Abingdon, Virginia.
1990 THE DEFINITIVE AMERICAN CONTEMPORARY QUILT, Bernice Steinbaum Gallery, New York, NY, ©1990, Bernice Steinbaum Gallery, Ltd..
1986 INTERFACE: OUTSIDERS AND INSIDERS, Ohio University, Athens, Ohio, Essay by Gary Schwindler, Curator,©1986, Ohio University, Lancaster, Ohio.
1982 TEN SOLO EXHIBITIONS, Wright State University, Dayton, Ohio, Essay by Betty Collings, Curator, Published by University Galleries, Wright State University, Dayton, Ohio,
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