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Togonon Gallery

March 4 - April 11, 2010

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http://www.togonongallery.com/
(415) 398-5572

77 Geary Street Second Floor San Francisco, CA 94108

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Togonon Gallery is excited to present Constance Harris’ new series of oil paintings in her first solo show. In much the same style that makes graffiti art attractive, Harris’ paintings are composed by recording common and unusual words, written in a bold cursive in rich, vibrant colors on canvas until they are all but unrecognizable. Re-presenting these words, layering them until their meanings and visual properties are obscured, the assembled final works successfully create new provocative forms, meanings and visual aesthetics. In many ways, Harris’ new work is a continuance of her better-known knitted copper sculptures, which are also a part of the solo exhibition. Like the copper sculptures, the words are “knitted” together, their curled and meandering cursive path undulating into and around each other. Like the new patterns of connected words that create a tapestry or web, Harris expresses form in the copper and steel wire sculptures that sprout from the ground and ceiling. The two media complete and “in.Form” each other. Constance Harris received her BFA in Painting and her MFA in Sculpture from the San Francisco Art Institute. She also achieved a BA in Philosophy, English from the University of Detroit. She currently lives and works in San Francisco.

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