Joshua Liner Gallery is pleased to present Momentous, an exhibition of new mixed-media paintings by the Seattle-based artist Robert Hardgrave. This is Hardgrave’s second solo show with the gallery.

The fourteen works on exhibit feature Hardgrave’s unique vocabulary of marks and symbols that are at once abstract and intensely personal. Working in acrylic on canvas, sewn collage, and paper, the artist builds up images from expressive mark-making and complex shapes. Curved and scalloped lines are repeated and multiplied in arched or wave-like groupings, an additive process that creates dynamic, flowing atmospheres and phantasmagoric figures. This intricate imagery is informed by Hardgrave’s experience of illness and recovery, and further inspired by reflections on reincarnation and the possibility of life after death.

Gallery Opening on Saturday January 9th, from 6 – 8pm.  Exhibition runs through February 6th.

Joshua Liner Gallery
548 West 28th Street, 3rd Floor
New York, NY 10001