Hilary Harkness @ Mary Boone

On 28 April 2005 the Mary Boone Gallery will open at its
Fifth Avenue location an exhibition featuring a new painting
and recent works on paper by HILARY HARKNESS.

Hilary Harkness’s devotion to meticulous draftsmanship is evident in
the labyrinthine female societies that she depicts.  This exhibition examines the relationship between Harkness’s paintings, line drawings,
and new works on paper that employ watercolor wash, colored pencil, and oil.  Whether made as a preparatory study for a painting or arising from the painting process itself, the drawings illustrate how Harkness wrests form and color from line and light.

Alongside Harkness’s fancifully imagined WWII imagery, the drawings
reveal a new focus on generating scenes from observation.  Here, her
commanding women are seen infiltrating a South Pacific beach, a gold
mine, a drive-in, or, in two elaborate cut-away views, Christie’s
auction house in Rockefeller Center.

The exhibition, at 745 Fifth Avenue, will run through 25 June 2005.

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