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San Francisco, CA United States
Represented By: Eleanor Harwood Gallery, San Francisco, CA United States
ARTIST STATEMENT
Eleanor Harwood’s paintings often appear to be environments void of people. Spaces filled with trees, sky and bursts of luminous color imply who was there and who might arrive. Typically the titles hint at the concealed content o...
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| Gender: | Female |
| Artist Statement: | ARTIST STATEMENT Eleanor Harwood’s paintings often appear to be environments void of people. Spaces filled with trees, sky and bursts of luminous color imply who was there and who might arrive. Typically the titles hint at the concealed content of the image. The title prompts the viewer to understand the image and prods them to look closer at the details. Her work frequently represents landscapes and trees in particular, however the paintings are not strictly representational as Harwood is equally interested in the process and more formal aspects of painting. Harwood renders some areas realistically and in other areas forms are abstracted. In terms of materials, Harwood frequently works from her own photos, sometimes collaging parts of them into a painting and sometimes painting from them. She also culls images from magazines, but also introduces much loser painted forms that come from her imagination. In her current series, Harwood investigates the theme of beginnings and endings. One of the paintings in the series includes a Bowerbird attracting its potential mate with an elaborate arrangement of blue objects. The painting calls to mind the extremes animals will go to in order to mate and to gain a companion. Another image is the moment when a lover realizes an affair is over. One painting indirectly depicts the first US fires in the skies over Baghdad on March 19th 2003. Connecting these seemingly disparate scenes is the investigation of the power of a moment – the crux. Everything begins and ends. Some of those things are massive in significance globally, as the war is, while others are much more quiet and are about a specie’s survival, while some moments are personal and psychological in importance and have not much bearing on our greater impact on our world. In a previous painting series she worked from the trilogy The Virgin in the Garden, Still Life and The Towel of Babel written by A. S. Byatt. The paintings were extremely loose interpretations of scenes from the novels. BIO Born in Cardiff, Wales in 1975, Eleanor Harwood has lived in England, Holland, Brazil, Greece and California. She graduated from California College of the Arts (CCA) May 2005. She was featured in New American Panting in the MFA Competition Winners Issue. She received the Richard K. Prince Scholarship Award, 2005 an award for academic and artistic excellence. She also was awarded the Murphy - Cadogan Fellowship in 2004: a fellowship funded by the Murphy Cadogan Trust and The San Francisco Foundation. |
| Education: | M.F.A., Painting, CCA, San Francisco, CA, 2005 B.A, UCSC, Film and Video, 1998 |
| Awards & Distinctions: | Richard K. Prince Scholarship Award, 2005 Award for academic and artistic excellence Murphy – Cadogan Fellowship Award, 2004 Fellowship awarded by the Murphy Cadogan Trust and The San Francisco Foundation Merit Scholarship, CCA 2003 Competitive two-year scholarship awarded for study at CCA Publications New American Painting Selected for the Best of MFA Competition issue, 2005 |
| Exhibitions: | Solo Exhibitions 2008 Lincart, San Francisco, CA 2003 Aware, Atlas Café, San Francisco, CA 2000 Thuja, Cosmic Studios, San Francisco, CA Fantasy Apparition, Eleanor Harwood and Loren Chasse, Not Still Art Festival in Brooklyn, New York, Otic Diary, Rooms for Listening, California College of Arts and Crafts (CCAC), San Francisco, CA 1999 Pander Toast, Eleanor Harwood and Janna Stark, Latin American Club, San Francisco, CA 1998 Home in Nine Months, Space Gallery, Santa Cruz, CA Group Exhibitions 2005 Pulliam Deffenbaugh Gallery, Bay Area Bazaar, Portland, OR, November 2005 Benefit Auction, Low Gallery, San Francisco, CA Hang Gallery, Up and Coming, Emerging Bay Area Artists, San Francisco, CA, July 2005 MFA Exhibit at California College of the Arts, San Francisco, CA , May 2005 Benefit Auction, The Lab, San Francisco, CA Benefit Auction, New College in support of Children’s art program in Argentina, San Francisco, CA 2004 Murphy & Cadogan Award Show, San Francisco Arts Commission Gallery, San Francisco, CA Humanity is the Ultimate Source, Playspace Gallery, CCA, San Francisco, CA The Bay Area Show, Detroit, MI Benefit Auction, 21 Grand, Oakland, CA Benefit Auction, Mimi Barr, San Francisco, CA Monster Drawing Rally, Southern Exposure, San Francisco, CA Bo’s Art, Adobe Books backroom gallery, San Francisco, CA 2003 Crust, AOV Gallery, San Francisco, CA Gimme Polaroid, New Langton Arts, San Francisco, CA Benefit Auction, The Lab, San Francisco, CA The Drawing Show, The Lab, San Francisco, CA The Peace Show, Adobe Books backroom gallery, San Francisco, CA Benefit Auction, Adobe Books backroom gallery, San Francisco, CA 2002 The Blood Show, Quotidian Gallery, San Francisco, CA 2000 Gimme Polaroid, Delivery Room, San Francisco, CA |
| Artist Tags: | contemporary, botanical, modern, graphic |
