When There Was Another Me: Harold Garde
On view through August 31, 2019
University of Maine Museum of Art
Bangor, Maine
www.umma.umaine.edu
The University of Maine Museum of Art (UMMA) presents “When There Was Another Me,” a large-scale exhibition featuring an assortment of forceful and stimulating works by Harold Garde. The artist, who splits his time between Florida and Maine, has exhibited widely throughout the United States. Garde, now in his 96th year, continues to produce works of great energy, intensity, and relevance.
While Garde has created a vast quantity of paintings and many unique series throughout his life’s work—from chairs to kimonos to solely abstract compositions—UMMA’s exhibition offers an extensive and focused look at recurrent subjects from throughout his career: figure and portraits. Within these selected works one sees the authority of Garde’s mark making and his spirited use of color. The figurative pieces chosen for this exhibition are emotionally complex, challenging, and unharnessed. At times they are humorous, confounding, and even unnerving. Above all, they convey conflicting states of mind as well as the complex nature of humanity; topics that are particularly relevant in contemporary art and society today.
Image:
Harold Garde (American, born 1923)
Councils, 1986
Acrylic on canvas
Courtesy of the artist and ArtSuite Gallery, NY
Photo: Dave Clough
