Joan Harmon

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Chaos/Light

Chaos/Light I, 2024, charcoal on paper, 45" x 30"

Chaos/Light II, 2024, charcoal on paper, 45" x 30"

Chaos/Light III, 2024, charcoal on paper, 45" x 30"

Meditation Scroll

Meditation Scroll, 2024, charcoal and ink on handmade paper, 12" x 108"

Animal Dreams I

Animal Dreams I, 2024, charcoal on paper, 60" x 45"

Animal Dreams II

Animal Dreams II, 2024, charcoal on paper, 60" x 45"

Untitled (Bloom II)

Untitled (Bloom II), 2023, charcoal on paper, 24" x 30"

Drawing with Fire

This series of drawings was begun during an Artist Fellowship at the Creative Glass Center of America, Wheaton Arts Center in 2014. The most recent edition was created at Urban Glass in Brooklyn, NY in 2019. In this body of work I work directly on paper, drawing with molten glass. As in all work with hot glass, the artist must work quickly- almost as if it were a dance. The resulting imagery reflects this sense of immediacy, creating gestural marks that reflect the quality of molten glass itself.

Three Muses I, 2019, burned paper drawn with molten glass, 22" x 30"

Three Muses II, 2019, burned paper drawn with molten glass, 30" x 22"

Three Muses III, 2019, burned paper drawn with molten glass, 30" x 22"

Cupful, 2015, burned paper drawn with molten glass, 22" x 30"

Figure, 2019, burned paper drawn with molten glass, 30" x 22"

Birdwoman, 2019, burned paper drawn with molten glass, 30" x 22"

Bird, 2019, burned paper drawn with molten glass, 30" x 22"

Sacrum, 2019, burned paper drawn with molten glass, 30" x 22"

Bloom, 2019, burned paper drawn with molten glass, 30" x 22"

Untitled, 2015, burned paper drawn with molten glass, 30" x 22"

Untitled, 2015, burned paper drawn with molten glass, 30" x 22"

Untitled, 2015, burned paper drawn with molten glass, 30" x 22"

Space & Synapse

In neurology, the synapse is the junction between two neurons where information is transmitted. The process for this series of drawings is to work with larger forms that respond to each other spatially and on a micro level.

Space & Synapse, 2023, charcoal on paper, 60" x 52"

Space & Synapse, 2023, charcoal on paper, 60" x 52"

Hudson River

Hudson River #1, 2009, charcoal on paper on canvas, 11" x 59", Bear Mountain to Manhattan Island

Hudson River #2, 2009, charcoal on paper on canvas, 17" x 59", Bear Mountain to Palisades

Hudson River #3, 2009, charcoal on paper, 44" x 90", Jones Point to Hook Mountain

Hudson River #4, 2009, oil and gouache on paper on canvas, 30" x 58",  Mystery Point to Hook Mountain

Hudson River #5, 2009, oil on paper on canvas, 12" x 64", Bear Mountain to Manhattan Island

Hudson River Series, River That Runs Both Ways, Phoenix Gallery, 2011

Night RIver

Night River, 2009, oil on linen, 24" x 120"

Bassin d'Arachon

Bassin d'Arachon, 2010, charcoal on paper on canvas, 34" x 44"

Stream

Stream, 2004, charcoal on paper, 42" x 72"

Spinal Landscape

Spinal Landscape, 2019, charcoal on paper, 22.5" x 30"

Fabric of Space

Fabric of Space, 2020, charcoal and mixed media on paper, 22.5" x 30"

Vessel with Birdhead

Vessel with Birdhead, 2020, acrylic and neocolor on paper, 22.5" x 30"

Winter Drawing I

Winter Drawing I, 2021, ink, charcoal and mixed media on paper, 30" x 22"

Arabesque Forms

Arabesque Forms, 2019, charcoal and acrylic on paper, 43" x 14"

Footpath

Footpath, 2005, charcoal on paper, 23" x 30"

Floating Black Form

Floating Black Form, 2003, charcoal and graphite on paper, 23" x 30"

Vessel with Spine

Vessel with Spine, 2009, charcoal on paper, 23" x 30"

Ironheart

Ironheart, 2000, charcoal and oil on paper, 34" x 38"

Ritual Landscape

Ritual Landscape, 1992, charcoal and pastel on paper, 23" x 30"

Golden Triangle

Golden Triangle, 1998, gouache on paper, 36" x 42"

Equine

Equine, 1997, oil on paper, 48" x 60"

Embryo

Embryo, 1992, pastel on paper, 16" x 22"

Untitled

Untitled, 1998, charcoal on paper, 34" x 38"

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