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Mary B. Harrington
“In these small, mainly square oils on panel, Mary Harrington explores the figure and the landscape with a haunting sense of person and place. Without resorting to detail she expresses mood and often tension. Paintings like Elusive, Overheard and Turnabout imply social interactions and isolation. Others speak to transition:Portal, Arrival, Adrift.
These men and women inhabit vaporous worlds. They sometimes display the symbolist qualities of an Odilon Redon image, especially where Harrington uses a pastel-like blue as in the paintings Outlook and Division. Some figures recall the caryatids of ancient Greece, their forms dissolving in air and rain.
Harrington’s landscapes are scraped and scratched and are unidentifiable as specific locales. They offer some relief, if you will, from the traditional Maine view, offering a kind of parallel universe where men and women sit or stand—or bask in an afterglow of light and mystery.”
Carl Little, April 2011
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