ArtistHarriet Shorr

Harriet Shorr is a landscape and still-life painter who presents "a reality without representation." Gerrit Henry, in Art in America, Dec 2001, observes that Shorr "has given the metaphysics of still-life painting a great deal of thought; her works operate at the point where artifice has become reality and reality is almost entirely subjugated to style. As with theater, disbelief must be suspended. That done, one can drink in the unnatural splendors of time, place and subject, never quite sure where one is, only knowing that one is singularly disarmed." Her work has been exhibited all over the country, at spaces such as Cheryl Pelavin Fine Art, NYC, the Cumberland Gallery, Nashville, and Galveston Art Center, Galveston. She is in the collection of  Chicago Art Institute, and the Brooklyn Museum. Her awards include American Academy of Arts and Letters and Pollock-Krasner awards. Her website is http://www.harrietshorr.com/.