Preview Reception with Kris Hargis: Wednesday, August 5, 5-7pm. Artist Remarks 5:30pm.
First Thursday Reception: August 6, 5-8pm.
Preview Reception with Kris Hargis: Wednesday, August 5, 5-7pm. Artist Remarks 5:30pm.
First Thursday Reception: August 6, 5-8pm.
Froelick Gallery is pleased to present Kris Hargis’s 14th solo exhibition Alone, Together.
The show features brand new series of self portraits and still lives.
Kris Hargis makes arresting self portraits that invite the viewer into a private, internal space. He also works in the tradition of the still life, rendering rich floral arrangements. His pastel and charcoal drawings walk a line between focused and expressive, gestural marks, and erasures, which converge in a deeply compelling whole.
"My drawing is mostly quiet, and observational. I sit or stand and look at stuff and draw it. Nothing fancy or spectacular, it’s just me looking at the thing. Whether it is a reflection of my own gaze or a gather of flowers that I picked, nothing changes.
When it isn’t quiet, it can be deafening. I judge myself, my worth, my capabilities. Sitting with all that while I look and figure, and continue to be taken by what lies in front of me.
Ultimately, it all comes out on the paper. I just have to show up, and some days I don’t want to. Always trying to leave it to the drawing room to say “good work and see ya tomorrow.' "
- Kris Hargis
