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Harris has made a living as a digital illustrator for over thirty years, since receiving his MFA in painting from Indiana University. His artwork was to be featured in GRA's Main Gallery in April 2020. Although we anticipate his return to our site in the future, we wanted to take a moment to highlight is creative career.
Your Invitation
I invite you to go back to any one of my pictures and spend a minute, 60 seconds, focused on the marks. This is where I live. In my best drawings every mark is a character, every stroke is evocative. As I age, I grow further from rendering likenesses. A landscape setting, a still life arrangement, and a portrait situation have each become springboards to more abstract responses. If these images strike you as strictly representational I encourage you to get a little closer…closer…to see the drawings within the drawings. The big picture is designed in the first two seconds. The time is in the marks. The time is being there, in the present. It is important for me to be out in the landscape responding to details my mind could never conjure.
Great River Arts is excited to host the annual Little Falls Community High School Art Show in our Front & Main Galleries during the month of March. During Student Art Month, both of our galleries were filled to the brim with the amazing work of Little Falls Community High School students from grades 9-12. Works range from traditional techniques like painting and drawing to more contemporary approaches in ceramics and other various mediums. We are proud of this ongoing partnership throughout the years with the Little Falls High School, as we showcase the emerging and growing artists in our community.
Thank you to Sheila McCoy, Morrison Country Record for agreeing to film the art exhibition - offering a virtual walk through the gallery for the students to share with friends and family while our site was closed due to COVID-19. In addition, read her article about the show published by the Morrison County RecordHERE.
