CONCURRENT - BRADLEY HARMS & CHRIS CRAN

Birds of a feather... The abstract work of Bradley Harms and Chris Cran hung together in the same space reveals much about each artists' obsession with lines, and pushing foreground and background experiments to the next level. 

Bradley Harms

Chris has been a mentor, friend, and contemporary of mine for many years. His was the first meaningful nonrepresentational abstract work that I had seen in my formative years as an painter. His irreverence, sense of humor and visual curiosity have been a continuous influence and example for me. 

The more printing and digital techniques that have been acquired, the more Harms has been drawn to errors and glitches; exploring the anomaly hidden within perceived perfection. Textiles and printmaking effects that shift foreground and background space, such as interference and moiré patterns, are repeatedly experimented with in his painting, as Event Sets works attest to. These paintings contain a high amount of intensity and tension between foreground and background.

In appropriating the techniques and glitches of the digital Harms has written a new looping sequence within the painting program. This work is about build-up, background layering, interference. But more importantly it is about recoding perfection and error. Harms' painting exploits digital-ness, and perceived faultlessness in order to reveal human-ness and fallibility.

-          Excerpt from essay Stack Overflow by Sunshine Frère

Bradley Harms, Hovering Mass Multi, 2013

chris cran

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Chris Cran, Untitled Pink, 2008