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Vessel Gallery

October 30 - December 2, 2012

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471 25th Street Oakland, CA 94612
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Inside Out: A William Harsh Retrospective Achilles Inside Out by William Harsh (2004) oil on canvas 42 x 54”
William Harsh’s paintings, prints and drawings have been variously (but incompletely) described as Expressionist, Surrealist and Metaphysical. Steeped in art history and developed through almost forty years of art practice, these works, distinguished by virtuoso draftsmanship and paint-handling, combine not only modernist art styles that are usually considered incompatible, but, as well, traditionally different genres: landscape, still life, and even nature study and portrait (though of an eccentric kind). In the current aesthetic climate, which has been described as postmodern and even, according to one eminent critic, as “post-art,” Harsh’s oeuvre, with its roots in Picasso, Chirico, Beckmann and Guston, among others, makes a convincing case for the virtues of authenticity, beauty, humor and power; his art demands and rewards serious looking, and delivers the aesthetic goods without apologies or excuses. —DeWitt Cheng Inside Out: The Paintings of William Harsh October 30 - December 1, 2012 Reception: Friday, November 2, 6 - 9:00 PM in conjunction with First Fridays Oakland Art Murmur