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Whit Harris

Whit Harris is a multi-disciplinary artist working across drawing, painting, and ceramics. Her work renders a dissolute experience of human bodies through fluid, disjointed anatomies. Figures stretch, recline, wriggle, twerk, and otherwise contort themselves in exaggerated expressions that oscillate between naturalistic and cartoonish, summoning the DuBoisian premise of “double consciousness” that underlies contemporary Black identity. These reinvented bodies become metaphors for the artist’s psychological adaptation to unpredictable and hostile environments borne out of anti-Black social structures and subversive totems of political resistance.

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Artworks:

Whit Harris
Smoke Break, 2023
Oil and acrylic on canvas
Offered in July 2023
Whit Harris
The Hunter's Dilemma, 2023
Oil and acrylic on canvas
Offered in July 2023
Whit Harris
Rejoice! (In the Bounty of Our Pastoral Acquisitions), 2023
Oil and acrylic on canvas
Offered in July 2023
Whit Harris
Catching Light at Dusk, 2023
Oil and acrylic on canvas
Offered in July 2023

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Gallery

Swivel Gallery
555 Greenwich Street
New York
United States of America

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