November 1, 2007 -- Works of Rider Fine Arts Professor Featured at the Bowery Gallery
LAWRENCEVILLE -- “Harry I Naar: Landscapes & Still Lifes – Drawings & Paintings,” featuring the work of Rider’s professor of fine arts and director of the Rider University Art Gallery, will run through Saturday, November 24, at the Bowery Gallery in New York City.
An opening reception for Naar will take place Saturday, November 3 from 3 p.m. to 6 p.m. The Bowery Gallery is located at 530 West 25th Street on the fourth floor.
The writer and curator A.M. Weaver wrote in The Noyes Museum catalogue for an exhibition entitled, "A Sense of Place," "Naar's work evokes an intimacy in which the viewer is drawn into the piece, as if enveloped." The painter and teacher Mel Leipzig has stated, "No other still-life painter I know imbues his objects with such a strong sensuousness and human quality. Mr Naar's dynamic energy combined with his aesthetic intelligence make these works so wonderfully visually exciting."
Naar has taught at Rider since 1980. Listed in Who’s Who in Art, Naar’s paintings, drawings, watercolors and prints have been shown nationally and internationally in venues such as the Corcoran Gallery in Washington, DC, the Boca Raton Museum of Art and The USSR Artist Union Gallery in Moscow. Naar is a member of the Princeton Artists Alliance. Next month, one of his drawings along with other works by members of the PAA will travel to Colmar, France, as part of an exchange program between Princeton and Colmar.
Naar’s work is also included in many public and private collections such as the Jane Voorhees Zimmerli Art Museum at Rutgers, the Morris Museum of Arts and Sciences in Morristown, N.J., the Montclair Art Museum, in Montclair, N.J., the Noyes Museum of Art in Atlantic City, N.J., the Newark Museum of Art in Newark, N.J., the Johnson and Johnson Corporate Center in New Brunswick, N.J., and at Bristol-Myers Squibb in Princeton, N.J. This year, Naar was awarded “Best in Show” in the Mercer County Artist Exhibition and in 2005 he received a printmakingfellowship from the Rutgers University Center for Innovative Print and Paper, The Brodsky Center.
He received a bachelor’s degree in fine arts degree from Philadelphia College of Art (now known as The University of the Arts) and a master's degree in fine arts from Indiana University. He has also studied with noted French painter Jean Hélion in Paris.
The Bowery Gallery hours are: Tuesday through Saturday from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. For more information, call 646-230-6655 or go to www.bowerygallery.org
