Robert Harms: New Paintings

The Drawing Room in East Hampton is pleased to present the gallery’s third exhibition of abstract oil paintings by longtime East End resident, Robert Harms, opening January 12, 2013.

The Southampton studio that Robert Harms calls home is nestled among bucolic woodlands, expanses of undulating foliage and broad, mutable skies. Overlooking a quiet body of water called Little Fresh Pond, it is here among the compositions of the natural world that for the past nine years the artist has found his muse. Harms’ engagement with the environment is both intensely observational and intuitive. Through his vision weather, the movement of branches and buds, and sparkling reflections are translated into pictorial expanses of gesture, color, and lilting form. Hundreds of lines swirl across the white canvas, rippling and weaving as if through a thicket of delicate brambles. Dappled with sunlight, or soft afternoon shade, Harms’ brushstrokes and broader washes of translucent color act as a touchstone, inviting the viewer for refuge and reverie in fields of dimensional abstract space.

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