Andrew Harlan
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the world is odd, from there we build!
©2024 oddStudio
2024
May the Road Rise Before You
Acyrlic, aluminum wire, spray foam, model grass, clay, papercuts, stones, graphite and a shell on Panel
21” x 29” x 7”
Traces left behind through deep and short time. Divinity in clouds, organized stone,
patterns in millenia old mountains, abandoned tunnels. The stories of a lanscape and our world
we are thrust into from stardust to the ocean without a clue.
Out There is a Place Where it Was
Paint on paper mounted to canvas pinned to cork board, clay, wood, toy spider, mono fialment, model grass, painted papercuts
20” x 16” x 5”
Viewing anxious thoughts as specimens pinned to a shadowbox left to gather dust and become home to something else. Moving on is not always about eliminating but finding acceptance.
Paint on paper mounted to canvas pinned to cork board, clay, wood, toy spider, mono fialment, model grass, painted papercuts
20” x 16” x 5”
Viewing anxious thoughts as specimens pinned to a shadowbox left to gather dust and become home to something else. Moving on is not always about eliminating but finding acceptance.
Artist frame coated in Lake Michigan sand with a sculpted mountain range and volcano on top.
Circulatory
Acrylic, tree roots, paper, clay, and wire on Panel
19” x 25” x 2”
Landscape as body exploring breathe and circulation in a field of existential anxiety and claustrophobia
to understand the beauty and importance of cycles, agency, and the basic principles of a quality life.
2023
Hatched in Fire
Acyrlic on Canvas
24” x 37” x 2”
For the Sequoia Tree, fire trims overgrowth and releases the seeds of its pine cone
to begin a new cycle. So too in our lives, fire can figuratively be a passage to growth and awareness.
After trauma and loss, tears turn to jewels and and a new era begins.
At the Crossroads of Your Senses
Acrylic on Panel
25” x 31” x 2”
Based on the poem by Rainer Maria Rilke "Let This Darkness be a Bell Tower,” and Pierre Reverdy’s “Selected Poems.” From the former, “In this uncontainable night, be the mystery at the crossroads of your senses. The meaning discovered there.”
Womb
Acrylic and paper on panel
25” x 19” x 2”
25” x 19” x 2”
Walking around Chicago, I saw a toy dinosaur lying face down in a dirt outcropping within a fenced yard of grass. It looked almost staged for me to discover, and in that moment a painting was born. A piece about birth, innocence, nurturing, sexuality, and deep time of life on earth
But the Snake, It Stares
Acrylic on paper on panel
25” x 19” x 2”
This painting is based on a scene outside my window. Wonderment at the fantastical balance of nature with a sneering snake looking back to remind us our place within the fold.