Geography, 2015
Acrylic, jute, mixed media on canvas
78 x 50 inches
Weisman Art Museum

In returning to canvas as a site of creative exploration, Harriet Bart created this abstraction of blues and grays resembling an aerial topographic map of Earth. By overlaying the canvas with jute in a grid formation, she conjures associations with geological, archaeological, and artistic survey methods.

The vertical and horizontal lines suggest longitude and latitude. Is this an invitation to find our way? The imagery before us is drawn from Bart’s imagination, rather than observation of any physical place or phenomena. The paths Bart offers are via personal and creative ways of search.

Publication:

• Abracadabra and Other Forms of Protection, Laura Wertheim Joseph editor and curator, Weisman Art Museum, 2020

Exhibitions:

• Material Matters / October 18 - November 19, 2021 / Traffic Zone Center for Visual Art, Minneapolis MN

• Abracadabra and Other Forms of Protection / February 2 - November 29, 2020 / Weisman Art Museum, Minneapolis MN

• STRONG SILENT TYPE / October 27 - December 15 2016 / Driscoll Babcock, New York NY