Eddie Harris in his garden. Photo by Cheri Eisenberg
After living and working in and around Chicago’s Auburn-Gresham neighborhood for nearly fifty years, the powerful and politically-tuned work of the artist Eddie Harris will be exhibited to the public for the first time at Intuit. This exhibition will explore both the breadth and depth of Harris’ work, in media and subject matter, touching on themes including Black power, portrayals of beauty and strength, the family, and the aesthetics of activism in the form of his bas-relief sculptures, paintings and drawings, and carved and painted objects.
Largely self-taught, Harris draws from memories of picking cotton during a childhood in Arkansas to his experience with the years of rage and the Black Panthers in Chicago, using found and salvaged materials to tell his personal narrative of the very public struggle for Black empowerment. Formally strong, with a painstaking attention to craftsmanship and gesture, his entire artistic practice shows a long dedication to both the aesthetic and cultural concerns of his life across several decades and presents a private and public address of Black power and heart. READ MORE »
