Harold Lohner: Gathering

Harold Lohner's recent works embody a masculine vitality and charisma. The artist gathers hundreds of anonymous images and then recounts what seem to be recurring and significant gestures and expressions. These monoprints are singular impressions and highly individualistic. Like faces in a crowd, these portraits emerge from and recede into motifs that both define and obscure them. The fluidity of marks and boldness of color animate these characters and add to the illusion that these are people that we've met - perhaps neighbors, or colleagues or fellow travelers.  Harold Lohner is Associate Professor of Visual Art at Sage College of Albany. He holds an MFA in printmaking from the University at Albany. He exhibits his monoprints nationally and online at http://www.haroldlohner.com. He has had residencies at the Contemporary Artists Center in North Adams, MA; Yaddo in Saratoga Springs, NY; and most recently at Kala Art Center in Berkeley, CA.  Gathering is curated by Jim Richard Wilson and Fabienne Waring. The exhibit is accompanied by an illustrated catalogue including essay by Melody Davis, PhD.

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