James Van Patten’s newest series of, what he describes as “throwaway scenes,” focuses on often-overlooked images of nature.  “When I have found the right image, I use the intermediate eye of the camera to see nuances that I have missed.  The anomalies of the camera lens also provide additional information that exists only in a photograph.”  This is the artist’s 4th one-person show at the gallery.

Stanislaw Zoladz is primarily concerned with documenting his immediate reaction to the scene in front of him; the landscape of Sweden. Zoladz sketches, paints and photographs on site, finishing each work in a larger scale in his studio. The artist’s subjects include isolated farm scenes in winter and rocky river beds in summer.  OK Harris is pleased to present this new series of precisionist watercolors in Zoladz’s first one-person exhibition in New York.

mg shapiro uses items or processes that the artist finds at home or at work.  In the artist’s own words: “In the case of the adhesive bandage, my art locates and embodies an inherent contradiction—the formal beauty of a common household object intended to both hide and heal painful body wounds.  Meanings expand over time as the bandages themselves evolve beyond my control and aesthetic efforts. The materials discomfiting suggestion of underlying damage reasserts itself in discolorations, signs of aging and hints of disintegration.”