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Suzanne Harris b. 1940
Suzanne Harris (1940-1979) is best known for her glass sculpture installations and her performance art, though she branched out into landscape art, color studies, and other media as well through sculpture and experimentation. Throughout many of her glass works, geometric language often is expressed via mechanical fixtures while her work with stone and wood retain geometry through seamless transitions between separate forms.
As Harris mentioned in an letter dated October 19, 1976, she “...would like to try to make a block of crystal glass. This would entail making a mold of porcelain, mixing the formula, firing the mold, then refiring it with the chemicals to about 3,000 degrees for three hours and then cooling. What I want is to make a high-lead crystal which could be carved. The chemicals involved are lead oxide, silica oxide, alumina, calcium carbonate, potassium carbonate and a small amount of arsenic.” From her vision to craft block of glass she could carve away at like stone, her dedication to exploring unconventional processes illuminates her passion for innovating and pushing the boundaries of the relationship between artists and their crafts.
Harris was one of the founding members of the anarchitecture group at 112 Greene Street (SoHo), where a select group of artists combined their genius to challenge the common field of knowledge of contemporary art and architecture. This group consisted of Suzanne Harris, Laurie Anderson, Tina Girouard, Carol Goodden, Jene Highstein, Bernard Kirschenbaun, Richard Landry, Richard Nonas, and the world renowned Matta Clark. In 1973, she performed her first solo exhibition "Flying Machines" that displayed ‘an attempt for two to defy gravity with minimum aid: visually sadistic until set in motion. A most sensation of flying.’ Harris further submerged herself into her artistry by visiting Egypt to view the pyramids, studying their geometry to imitate the universal mathematic principals for her own work. Harris founded the Natural History of the American Dancer, an improvisational and experimental dance company. Harris's work has exhibited at the MoMA, White Columns, and the Whitney Museum.
Exhibition History:
Suzanne Harris
Sculpture
40
1978
1978
2016
Press:
AMNY