At the Oxford: Sharon Gordon and Peter Harris

Above: Night Lot 12:30 AM, Peter Harris

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Running from until October 10...

Via the Oxford Gallery:

At first impression, the linear realism of Peter Harris may seem a radical contrast to the lush tone poems of Sharon Gordon. Yet both artists raise fundamental – though fundamentally different – questions about the way we see what we see.

For Toronto painter Harris, the landscape we see is greatly conditioned by the means we must use to see it. Our natural vistas are always intersected by roads, bridge abutments, vehicles, and the other man-made devices we must use to get there, these devices becoming elements of the modern landscape itself. His hauntingly beautiful, if sometimes lonely, urban nocturnes resolve into shifting patterns of artificial and reflected light.

For Syracuse artist Sharon Gordon, by contrast, the landscape, seascape, or cloudscape we see is no longer “out there”; it resides in the mind of the observer and in the particular associations which each observer brings to the view. Gordon provides just enough visual information to stimulate memories and associations in the viewer, who must then complete the image in an imaginative act of re-creation.

More information can be found on OG's website.