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SHORT BIOGRAPHY
263 Words: Howard Harris has long been fascinated by both visual
perception and design. The Denver Colorado USA native earned a BFA
from Kansas City Art Institute, MID (Masters Industrial Design) from
Pratt Institute in New York studying with internationally renowned
design theorist Rowena Reed Kostellow.
Harris has spent more than 35 years combining design and technology
where he has won many prestigious professional awards. Now his
creative energy has turned to his lifelong passion, photography.
With an iconoclastic streak that had seen him consistently forging
new directions in design, he was bound to approach the photographic
image in an unconventional way as well.
In 2017 Harris was granted a United States Patent no: 9,753,295
titled Apparatus and Method of Manufacturer for a Layered Artwork
proving the uniqueness and inventiveness of his photographic work.
Since then his work has appeared in many books and publications such
as The Great Masters of Contemporary Art, ARTtour International
Artists of the Decade, Art Collectors Choice Japan, International
Contemporary Masters, and Top 10 Contemporary Artists, to mention a
few. He has also been awarded Artists for a Green Planet Artist of
the Decade, International Prize Raffaello, International Prize
Giulio Cesare, International Prize Leonardo Da Vinci, International
Prize Caravaggio, Contemporary Art Curator Magazines Artist of the
Future and more. He serves as a Trustee of The Kansas City Art
Institute has won the Who’s Who Worldwide Lifetime Achievement and
the USA Small Businessperson of the Year. His work is shown
internationally and represented by galleries in the United States,
U.K. and Europe and appear in South Korean Yukyung Art Museum. |
In his carefully altered
digital prints, American-born photographer Howard Harris takes on
what is perhaps the most American of themes: the interrelationship
of perception and technology.
For Harris, this problematic doesn't reduce itself to merely
studying the effects of mediating devices on how an object or
landscape is perceived. Rather, Harris's artistry explores how the
whole emotional complex underlying one's personality integrates into
the structural logic of architecture and design. As Harris himself
frames it, "my aim [is to) to skillfully combine technology and
aesthetics in a way that expands the viewer's experience of
photographic art."
Harris's compositions are less abstraction from anything and more a
showcasing of the conditions that render perception possible.
Architectural themes pervade his works in the guise of sentient,
dynamic constructions. Ordinary objects, such as buildings and
birds, are contextualized in relation to how they appear to the
viewer's eye, from a specific angle or point of view. From there,
they are further distilled into purely repetitive patterns, yielding
the essence of how consciousness might structure an object without
reference to any particular object of phenomenon.
While Harris is known to engage in figurative depictions not unlike
traditional representations of landscapes, his work authentically
takes off on its own when he turns away from looking at or depicting
anything, and instead bodies forth the perceptual conditions in
relation to which the awareness of a concrete gestalt (whether
perceived in a photograph or in direct perception) is clearly and
distinctly constructed. Using his camera as an instrument towards
obtaining the essence of what underlies the consciousness of
objects, he brings to light the universal forms that are quietly
implicit in the quotidian structures of everyday life
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