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John Hartman - Cities: San Francisco & New York

October 1, 2008—October 30, 2008

John Hartman is drawn, in port cities like San Francisco, to the juxtaposition of densely packed man-made structures with the luminosity of the water that surrounds them—a charged dichotomy of solidity and liquidity, the modern and primordial. His compositions, too, harness the power of contrasts, placing turbulent areas alongside tranquil monochromatic spaces. Influenced by the cityscapes of the early-mid-century Viennese expressionist painter Oskar Kokoschka, Hartman infuses his urban vistas with a churning emotional undercurrent.

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