NEC Gallery Reception

The Gallery at New England College presents New York to New Hampshire: Artists of the OK Harris Gallery— paintings, mixed-media and two-dimensional art by 17 selected artists from the OK Harris Gallery in the SoHo district of Manhattan October 4 - November 16, 2007. The public is invited to an opening reception at the New England College Gallery on Saturday, October 6 from 2-5:00 p.m.

Admission to the New England College Gallery is free. Gallery hours are Tuesdays, Wednesdays and Thursdays from 11:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m.; Fridays from 11:00 to 3:00 p.m.; and during the month of October, the Gallery will also be open from noon until 3:00 p.m. on Saturdays. Additional weekend hours are by appointment.  The Gallery is located on Main Street in Henniker, New Hampshire, adjacent to the College’s Administration Building. For more information, call The Gallery at 603-428-2329.

“The OK Harris Gallery is recognized worldwide as one of the most established and finest galleries in the nation,” commented New England College Gallery Director Darryl Furtkamp.  “While at first glance works by the artists exhibiting may seem eclectic and disparate, the overall feeling evoked is that each piece compliments another in a manner that provides great variety and appreciable connection. My intent in creating this exhibition,” continued Furtkamp, “is to showcase the quality and diversity of the OK Harris stable of artists and bring to New Hampshire audiences a group exhibition that challenges the familiar and often provincial styles featured prominently in New England.”

New York to New Hampshire: Artists of the OK Harris Gallery presents a representative sampling of some of the highest quality, contemporary art being produced today.  The artists exhibiting represent the range and plurality of contemporary art, from traditional subjects, styles and methods to non-traditional subject, abstract and non-objectives styles, and varied media.  The artists’ works reside in prominent public and private collections such as the Museum of Modern Art, the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Solomon R.Guggenheim Museum, the Philadelphia Museum of Art, and the Art Institute of Chicago.

Artists represented include Robert Van Vranken, Leonard Koscianski, Cora Roth, Robert Anderson, Ralph Goings, Joseph Richards, Josef Levi, Ron Weis, Moses Hoskins, Tino Zago, Michael Shemchuk, Bill Fisher, Elaine Spatz-Rabinowitz, Y.J. Cho, Ben Mathews, David Giese and David Miretsky.

As co-director of the Leo Castelli Gallery from 1959 to 1969, OK Harris founder Ivan Karp was instrumental in launching the careers of many pop artists including Andy Warhol and Roy Lichtenstein. When Karp opened the OK Harris Gallery in SoHo in 1969 he was at the forefront of the Photorealist movement. The OK Harris Gallery was the first gallery on West Broadway when it opened and helped inspire the development of the area’s fine arts character.