KENNY HARRIS, NEW PAINTINGS
November 15, 2007 – January 5, 2008

Gallery C is pleased to present NEW PAINTINGS by Kenny Harris. With an emphasis on a sublime realism that stays current on the conceptual concerns of contemporary art, Harris’ paintings are poetic interludes on our current condition subsumed in the beauty of the pregnant pause.

For this show, Harris has painted what appear to be random, unpopulated interiors based on photos he took last year while traveling to South America, and yet the paintings bear no culturally specific attributes – they are universal experiences of personal intimacy. Harris paints the rooms in which you may have been, traveled through or glimpsed, yet empty, ready to be viewed or ignored, stark and majestic all in the sweep of an eye or in the daylong meditation of one’s gaze. Some of Harris’ realistic oil on canvas wonders span over six feet wide and four feet high.