Works of Rider Fine Arts Professor Harry I Naar Featured at New
York’s Bowery Gallery
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Summer Hydrangea,
2007, acrylic on canvas, 36 x 48
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“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.
In The Noyes Museum catalogue for an exhibition entitled “A
Sense of Place,” the writer and curator A.M. Weaver wrote,
“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,
makes 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, D.C., the Boca Raton
Museum of Art, and the USSR Artist Union Gallery in Moscow. Naar
is a member of the Princeton Artists Alliance (PAA). 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,
the Montclair Art Museum, the Noyes Museum of Art in Atlantic
City, the Newark Museum of Art in Newark, the Johnson and Johnson
Corporate Center in New Brunswick and at Bristol-Myers Squibb
in Princeton. This year, Naar was awarded “Best in Show”
in the Mercer County Artist Exhibition, and in 2005 he received
a printmaking fellowship from the Rutgers University Center for
Innovative Print and Paper, The Brodsky Center.
He received a bachelor’s of fine arts degree from Philadelphia
College of Art (now The University of the Arts) and a master of
fine arts degree from Indiana University. He has also studied
with noted French painter Jean Hélion in Paris.
The Bowery Gallery hours are: Tuesday – Saturday from 11
a.m. to 6 p.m. For more information, call 646-230-6655 or go to
www.bowerygallery.org.
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