HARDING MEYER | eye to eye

December 9 - December 24, 2022

Harding Meyer’s unique idiom draws its strength from precisely such contrasts: revealment and concealment, intimacy and reserve, tradition and innovation, portrait and landscape, figuration and abstraction. There is scarcely a segment of a canvas that, if extrapolated from the whole, might not be read as an abstract composition – above all, of course, the non-illusionist backgrounds, which eschew any suggestion of context or locale.

 

Meyer creates a pictorial “horizon” delineated by the eyes of his subjects and accentuated by the horizontal structure of the eye itself.  The total composition is thus indeed structured like a landscape, while the textured surface, typically free of any explicit spatial reference, stretches unbroken across the entire canvas.  Viewer and subject are vis-à-vis, literally seeing “eye to eye”.

 

From Pentimenti Redux by David Galloway, published in ‘Harding Meyer, A Monograph

 

Untitled (16-2022)
79 x 98 in / 200 x 250 cm
Untitled (36-2022)
59 x 75 in / 150 x 190 cm
Untitled (34-2022)
59 x 75 in / 150 x 190 cm
Untitled-38
51 x 67 inches / 130 x 170 cm
Untitled (37-2022)
47 x 59 in / 120 x 150 cm
Untitled (33-2022)
43 x 35 in / 110 x 90 cm
Untitled (32-2022)
35 x 43 in / 90 x 110 cm
Untitled (38-2022)
35 x 43 in / 90 x 110 cm
Untitled (35-2022)
35 x 43 in / 90 x 110 cm
Untitled (41-2022)
43 x 35 in / 110 x 90 cm
Untitled (40-2022)
43 x 35 in / 110 x 90 cm
Untitled (39-2022)
43 x 35 in / 110 x 90 cm
Untitled (32-2020)
35 x 43 inches / 90 x 110 cm