Album, 2006
acrylic on canvas
54 x 54 inches; 137.2 x 137.2 centimeters
LSFA #10883
Louis Stern Fine Arts is pleased to present June Harwood – Hard Edge Revisited. The exhibition opens on Saturday, March 8 with a reception for the artist from 6-9pm and continues through Saturday, April 5, 2008.
June Harwood made a name for herself in the 60’s as an inventive Hard Edge painter. Included in most every important Hard Edge exhibition in and around Southern California, most significantly in Dave Hickey’s invigorating 2004 homage to “The Los Angeles School” at Otis, Ms. Harwood continues to refine her sense of inspired geometry in her newest works.
Working in acrylic with a palette that harnesses neon blues and mottled earth tones, Harwood creates a soft focus background built of irregular geometric shapes. Then she inserts a razor-edged sliver of sunburst yellow or glowing aqua. Against the lush tonality in the background, the line pops forward. Hard Edge it is but markedly different from her original take on geometric abstraction.
In these semi-shadowed deconstructed environments, Ms. Harwood, a consummate pro and ever the painter’s painter, has not lost her ‘edge’. She’s simply re-designed what’s ‘hard’ about it.
Ms. Harwood’s work has been exhibited extensively throughout Southern California and the United States. Ms. Harwood is represented exclusively by Louis Stern Fine Arts.