A-B Mouon

© Zach Harris

A-B Mouon

Currently not on view

A-B Mouon,

2010

Zach Harris, American, born 1976
2011-32
Harris is known for a series of exquisite mixed-media assemblages like this one. The painted elements of each work are as meticulously rendered as the frame, which Harris treats as an integral part of the work. Slightly larger than Byzantine icons, and indebted to Modernist abstraction as well as to Tibetan and Buddhist art, Harris’s works are intimately scaled. According to the artist, they serve as a kind of meditative device: they are meant to grip the mind via the eye and to trigger moments of imaginative reverie, if not flights of spiritual and metaphysical fancy.

Information

Title
A-B Mouon
Dates

2010

Maker
Zach Harris
Medium
Water-based paint, linen, birch plywood, and Masonite
Dimensions
83.8 x 63.5 cm. (33 x 25 in.)
Credit Line
Museum purchase, Fowler McCormick, Class of 1921, Fund
Object Number
2011-32
Signatures
Signed, dated, and titled verso in marker
Culture
American
Period
modern American styles and periods
Type
paintings
Materials
linen (material), Masonite (TM), birch, water-base paint
Subject
red, orange, brown, yellow, blue, purple, white (color), gray (color), fires, arabesques, geometric patterns, abstraction

Zach Harris, the artist, New York, New York, consigned; to [MPI Galleries LLC dba Meulensteen], sold; to Princeton University Art Museum, 2011.

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