Robert Harding

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Artist Statement

My work is about the human condition and my own humanity on every level and my work is also about the act of making drawing, painting, sculpture, or the action taken in the grip of all that is human. Art is a response to the lonely dilemma of being a human spirit on this planet and, at the same time, art has its own qualities, its finesse and beauty and inventive potential as a medium. Each drawing and painting that I make is a resolution of the dilemma of separation from self and others, from self and world, from self and medium. In making art I symbolically represent my Self and the elemental, human, Universal Self in the ongoing action of becoming integrated with God, with Nature, with my own and others complex consciousness in the world: as an observer, as a player, as an actor regarding the world in its essence, as a person subject to the whiplash of feelings that come from within to wrench us apart, as a part of the ongoing evolution of the universe, I play a part, I am an artist. As a human being I am an artist and I am also an expression of all that I call Nature and God and humankind. In this sense then I believe that my work is spiritual.

Artist Bio

Education:

BA. philosophy, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ.1959
M.F.A. painting and drawing, Southern Illinois University, Carbondale, Ill.,1965
At Rutgers University, attended workshop seminars in advanced painting and theory of art with Lucas Samaras and Robert
Whitman conducted by Allan Kaprow.
U.S.Army,1960-62
Thord-Gray Fellowship in Environmental Design Studies, Stockholm, Sweden, 1970-71

One person exhibitions U.S.A and Europe

1996: Levitan Gallery, NYC, works on paper and paintings
1995: New York School of Interior Design, NYC; Drawings
1994: Kunstschalter Gallery, Cologne, Germany: paintings and works on paper
1992: Monmouth University,NJ. paintings, works on paper, sculpture
1992: Sunnen Gallery, NYC., paintings, works on paper, sculpture
1990: Levitan Gallery, NYC: sculpture and drawings
1989: Levitan Gallery, NYC : sculpture and drawings
1987: Claire Dunphy Gallery, NYC. paintings, sculpture, works on paper
1985: Claire Dunphy Gallery, NYC., paintings, works on paper, masks
1983: PSD Fine Arts, NYC: paintings and works on paper
1981: PSD Fine Arts, NYC: paintings, sculptural constructions, works on paper.
1980: Levitan Gallery, NYC; Large Scale drawings series, "Out from the Cave."
1978: Gloria Cortella Gallery, NYC: paintings and works on paper
1976: Gloria Cortella Gallery, NYC: paintings, works on paper, sculptural relief's
1974: Roko Gallery, NYC: works on paper, wooden wall constructions.
1972: Fells Point Gallery, Baltimore, Md. : works on paper and paintings
1966: Galerie Fechner, Dusseldorf, Germany: works on paper
1966: Galerie Palette, Wuppertal, Germany: works on paper
1964: Lincoln West Gallery, NYC: works on paper
1963: Goucher College, Towson, Md.: paintings and works on paper
1958: Bookstore Gallery, New Brunswick, NJ., collages and constructions

Selected Group Shows:

1993: Kunstschalter Gallery, NYC: sculpture
1990: Bill Bace Gallery: NYC., sculpture, "Homage to Mary"
1985: Levitan Gallery, NYC., paintings: Harding, Wegman, Hassen, et.al..
1978: Van Doren Gallery, San Francisco, CA., "Paper Theater," reliefs,drawings
1978: Gloria Cortella Gallery, NYC: "Paper Theater," relief's, works on paper
1977:Carlson Gallery,U.ofBridgeport,Conn.:"Figure in the Seventies,"drawings
1975; Ariadne Gallery, NYC: drawings
1966-72: Baltimore Museum of Art Annual: jury selects: prize winner
1959: YMHA,92nd Street, NYC Harding,Segal,Samaras,Kaprow, Whitman