Del Harrow: Analogue

August 19 – October 10, 2021

About the Exhibition

Harvey Preston Gallery is pleased to announce a solo exhibition of new sculptures by Del Harrow. After many years working in ways that combine digital technology with material forming processes, this past year—with more time being spent online—Harrow found himself conversely pulled towards more immediate ways of working.

The title of the exhibition, Analogue, is meant to reference multiple meanings of the word—specifically “not digital” and “analogous to”. In thinking about the latter, Del states “these objects are reflections on the complex and paradoxical nature of ‘container’ as an analogy for thinking our world.” In other words, how thought itself, creates the body, identity, objects, property, nation, or territory. The works presented in this exhibition are both physical containers, and diagrams for the idea of a container—a surface that holds content and space.

Installation view (Del Harrow)
Installation view (Del Harrow)
Installation view (Del Harrow)
Installation view (Del Harrow)
Del Harrow, vase (alum) 01, 2021
Del Harrow
vase (alum) 01, 2021
Stoneware, cast aluminum
19 x 20 x 19.5″
Del Harrow, (thinking) Bench 02, 2021
Del Harrow
(thinking) Bench 02, 2021
Concrete, stoneware
17.5 x 55 x 16″
Del Harrow, Bowl/Basin/Mask (Black), 2021
Del Harrow
Bowl/Basin/Mask (Black), 2021
Stoneware, glaze
28.5 x 19.5 x 6″
Del Harrow, Kouros(h), 2021
Del Harrow
Kouros(h), 2021
Aluminum
87 x 23 x 24″
Installation view (Del Harrow)
Installation view (Del Harrow)
Del Harrow, Surface/Facets 02, 2021
Del Harrow
Surface/Facets 02, 2021
Stoneware
39.5 x 23.5 x 12″
Del Harrow, Eye (Brauner), 2021
Del Harrow
Eye (Brauner), 2021
Stoneware, glaze
40 x 20 x 20″
Installation view (Del Harrow)
Installation view (Del Harrow)
Del Harrow, vase (alum) 02, 2021
Del Harrow
vase (alum) 02, 2021
Stoneware, glaze
22 x 21 x 19″
Del Harrow, vase (alum) 02, 2021
Del Harrow
vase (alum) 02, 2021 (detail)
Stoneware, glaze
22 x 21 x 19″
Installation view (Del Harrow)
Installation view (Del Harrow)
Installation view (Del Harrow)
Installation view (Del Harrow)
Installation view (Del Harrow)
Installation view (Del Harrow)
Del Harrow, Simmel 01, 2021
Del Harrow
Simmel 01, 2021
Stoneware, glaze
12 x 17 x 11″
Del Harrow, Surface/Facets 01, 2021
Del Harrow
Surface/Facets 01, 2021
Stoneware, glaze
30.25 x 24 x 14″
Del Harrow, Surface/Facets 01, 2021
Del Harrow
Surface/Facets 01, 2021
Stoneware, glaze
30.25 x 24 x 14″
Del Harrow, Simmel 02, 2021
Del Harrow
Simmel 02, 2021
Stoneware, glaze
12 x 17 x 11″
Del Harrow, Vignelli (Pink), 2021
Del Harrow
Vignelli (Pink), 2021
Stoneware, glaze
6 x 14 x 6″

About the Artist

Del Harrow lives and works in Fort Collins, CO with his wife, potter Sanam Emami and their son, William. He is an Associate Professor at Colorado State University where he teaches Sculpture, Digital Fabrication, and Ceramics. His art practice spans genres of sculpture and design, and integrates traditional manual and skill based forming processes with digital fabrication technology.

Harrow has been invited to lecture widely on his own work and on the intersection of digital fabrication and craft in contemporary art and education. Recent lectures include Syracuse University/The Everson Museum of Art, The Auerbach Endowed Lecture Series at Hartford Art School, CT, and the Current Perspectives Lecture Series at Kansas City Art Institute. His work has been exhibited at The Milwaukee Art Museum, The Denver Art Museum, The Arizona State University Art Museum, Vox Populi Gallery, and The Museum of Fine Art in Boston. He is represented by Haw Contemporary in Kansas City, MO, and Harvey Preston gallery in Aspen, CO.

In 2020 Harrow received a United States Artist Fellowship—“a $50,000 unrestricted award celebrating artists and cultural practitioners who have significantly contributed to the creative landscape and arts ecosystem of the country.”