Urban Contours, Nov 7 – Dec 20, The Art Gallery at Brooklyn College

The Art Gallery at Brooklyn College
Boylan Hall, Room 0400
Brooklyn, New York

My painting, Smoke Break, is part of the Brooklyn College Faculty Exhibition opening Thursday, November 7th from 5:30-7:30PM in Boylan Hall. Stop by, say hello, see some art, and enjoy the picturesque campus during fall season– it’s a beautiful time of year.

The show runs November 7th-December 20th, with gallery hours on Tuesday’s and Wednesday’s 10:00AM-5:30PM and Thursday’s and Friday’s 10:00AM-3:00PM. I’ll update this post with installation photos after the event.

Best Laid Plans, Sept 9 – Oct 19, Peninsula

Peninsula
13 Monroe Street
New York, NY

I’m so delighted to share my new body of work, completed over the summer, where I attempt to relay the subconscious impulses that make up my gestures and forms.

From the press release:

Peninsula is pleased to present Whit Harris’s inaugural New York City solo exhibition, Best Laid Plans, opening on September 6 from 6-9 PM at 13 Monroe Street, New York, NY. Harris’s most recent paintings further build upon her explorations of the black femme body. In this ongoing series of works, the figures depicted are manifestations of Harris’s own emotional turmoil, formed by being entrenched in a culture of patriarchy, colonialism, and white supremacy.

The subjects of these paintings are trapped in varying Arcadian scenes evocative of the classical, European tradition of landscape painting. However, in Harris’s hands, these environments come to represent society’s unrelenting oppressive systems. The femmes’ bodies are in conflict with their settings—twisted, cramped, and in some cases, segmented into pieces. Grass, clouds, rain, and smoke wrap around their forms, contorting the figures into cartoonishly over-extended poses. The sky, ground, and other natural features poke and prod, crush and entangle. These highly exaggerated figures, sharply contrasting with their settings, delve into the complexities of identity and power.

Unfeigned Mysteries, June 7 – July 12, DIMIN

I exhibited six paintings in a three-person show at DIMIN in Tribeca, June 7th – July 12, 2024. Many of these works originated during a two-week residency at The Macedonia Institute in Chatham, New York last fall, and reflect the colors of the environment– the turning leaves from green to yellow to orange to red, […]

Chemistry, May 17 – June 29, Peninsula

My painting Fuck Session is part of the group exhibition Chemistry at Peninsula from May 17th through June 29th. I created this work during my two-week residency at The Macedonia Institute in Chatham, New York as a way to celebrate the excitement and intimacy of new love back home.  Here’s an excerpt from the gallery, “Peninsula is […]