Artist Statement In my work I strive for a balance of color and shape. A couple of years ago I read an article about the painter Marsden Hartley from Maine who worked in the first half of the 20th century. He said something like this, "If you get the color right everything else will follow". That impresses me. I also like pattern and layering as compositional tools. Right now I'm working in a primitive figurative style. I try to keep my working process as simple as possible. Traveling has been a big inspiration. I've lived in San Francisco, New York and Mexico City and traveled as far as Moscow and Calcutta. I think where I've been helps explain me. Charles Harker 2005

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boxes	grandma's house 1957	green banana land	LA drawing

Charles Harker
Email: charker@hotmail.com
Web Site: http://members.tripod.com/charker/

• Group Shows
  "First Friday", Red Dog Gallery, Phoenix, Arizona
  "Post Office Exhibition", U.S. Post Office, Tempe, Arizona
  "The Terrain", Juried Landscape Exhibition, Musuem of Fine Art, Las Cruces NM
  "Arizona Room 3", Mesa Arts Center, Mesa, Arizona
  Artlink Mystery Gallery, Phoenix, Arizona
  "On the street where you live", Weber State University, Ogden, Utah
  Group Show, Leslie Lohman Gallery, NYC
  "Spring Show", Leslie Lohman Gallery, NYC
  "Conceptual Kitchen", Lynne Carlo Gallery, NYC
  Group Show, Art Students League Gallery, NYC
  "Dada Festival", (Design of Stage Set), Victoria Theatre, SF
  "1979 Photography Awards", Camerawork Gallery, SF
  "Annual Student Show", Matthews Gallery, Arizona State Univ., Tempe
  
• Gallery Affiliation
  PaintingsDirect.Com
  1983-86 San Francisco Museum of Modern Art Rental Gallery, S.F
  
• One Person Shows
  Window Exhibit, Work of Art Gallery, NYC
  
• 1984 "Charles Harker-San Jose, Drawings", Valencia Rose Gallery, SF
  Illustrations
  
• 1995 Children's textbook illustrator, Scholastic Publishing, NYC
  Dance Benefit Poster, Outweek Magazine, NYC
  
• Illustrator, High Times Magazine, NYC
  
• Illustrator, Theatre Rhinoceros, SF
  
• Illustrator, Common Ground Magazine, SF
  
• 1983 Illustrator for the "EYE", City Arts Magazine, SF

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personajes	safe city	south tuscon
nairobi	sunnyslope	warm city

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