June Harwood: Back to the Sixties

This look “back to the sixties” reassesses the works of Hard-Edge painter and Southern California Abstractionist June Harwood. The decade was characterized by a sculptural manipulation of geometric forms - horizontal, vertical, diagonal shapes presented in angular and jagged iterations that feel like they are carved and coaxed from the perimeters of the canvas. Harwood’s subjects are dictated by a calculated tension in color story where combatant and complementary colors create a narrative that relates to the specificity of the forms that resist semblance to specific shapes found in the natural world, yet feel organic to the eye.