Sculptor Jerry Harris

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San Francisco/Oakland, CA., CA

  • Affiliations and Bibliography
  • FOREWORD AND RESUME
  • Purchases and Commissions
  • Press Release
  • 2. Dogon Mother and Child
  • 3. Dogon Mother and Child(close-up)
  • 4. Executioners Song
  • 5. Out Of Africa
  • 6 Exxon Oil King
  • 7. Flush Full Metal Jacket
  • 8. Nesting Bird and Baby
  • 9. Anthony and Cleopatra Divided
  • 10. CAPTURED FORMS IN SPACE
  • 11. Homage To Biille Holliday
  • 12. Night Rider
  • 13-14. THE BIRTH OF TRAGEDY
  • 15. Tic Tac Toe
  • 16. Strangers
  • 17. Roots
  • 18. Homage To Charlie Parker
  • 19. Mississippi Burning
  • 20. Screaming Mother and Child
  • 21. Death Valley
  • 22. STRUGGLING FORMS: HOMAGE TO MOORE
  • 24.Articles and Criticism
  • 25. News On The African American Art
  • 26.Archives
  • 27. Family Homage To Britt-Marie Harris
  • 28.Double Standing Figure
  • 29. Wounded Warrior
  • 30. Two Figures
  • 31. Reclining Figure: Homage to H. Moore
  • 32. Yo Yo Mama
  • 33.The Last Flight Of Icarus
  • 34. Headless Roman Centurion
  • 35.Nagasaki Nightmare/memento mori
  • 36 .Balinese Fighting Cock
  • 37. Mayan Bird Of Paradise
  • 38. Remember Wounded Knee
  • 39. Rage Against The Machine
  • 40. Evolution of a Drive-by Shooting
  • 41Codex Atlanticus Da vinci War Machine
  • 42. Skinhead Fly Boy
  • 43.Videoclips
  • 44. Miles Davis Diggin' Bird' Charlie Parker
  • 45. The Drugged Child
  • 46. Big Foot
  • 47. Full Mental Jacket Video
  • 48. Bronze Sculptures From Jerry Harris
  • 49. First Kiss: Homage To Britt-Marie
  • 50. Virago Pursuing Man
  • 51. Cherry
  • 52. Lorenzo The Magnificent:
  • 53.The Nightmare At 4.A.M.
  • 54. The Struggle
  • 55.Tutu-Homage to Miles Davis
  • 56.ang: Black Boys Rapin' and Rollin'
  • 57. Anima to Animus
  • 58. When Roe vs Wade Is Gone The Butcher Returns
  • 59. The Armies Of The Night
  • 60.menage' a trois
  • 61.. World Warhol-3 Art Criticism 101
  • 62.Birds Of The Feather Flock Together
  • 63. The Pain of Birth
  • 64. Valley Of The Sun Gods Where The Matriarchs Rule.
  • 65. Primary Colors-Wall Sculpture
  • 66. Mayan X
    • 67. Capsized Slave Ship. Voyage au bout de la nuit
  • 68. Collages
  • 69. Isis and Geb Standing On A Square
    • 69. Isis and Geb
  • Homage to Isamu Nogughi
  • Myan Bird Man and New Born
  • 70. The Terror of Alleen Wourmos
  • The Tower Of The Black Knight Embracing The Red Lady
  • 67.Capsized Slave Ship
  • The Cabinet of Giacometti's Wife.
  • Lethal Injection
  • Art and Artists

 

Creating by the dock of the bay.

 

 

 

 

Sculptor Jerry Harris with "Dogon Mother and Child." Carved Wood and Fiberglass

sculptor77@hotmail.com

 



Short Biography

The American sculptor Jerry Harris was born in Pittsburgh, Pa. His date of birth doesn't interest him. Harris lived in Stockholm, Sweden for many years until the death of his wife, the Swede Britt-Marie Olofsson-Harris. Career highlights.

Harris entered the advertising world after leaving San Francisco State University(1970) and became a Jr. Executive creative writer for men's wear, Macy's of California. He left there(1972) and was hired as the first African American on-air writer and producer for KGO TV ( ABC Channel 7) San Francisco.

In 1974,  sick of the commercial world, he left the United States and moved to Sweden with his wife and son Andreas, returning in 1976 to study sculpture under professor James Lee Hansen, a leading Pacific Northwest sculptor who taught until his retirement at Portland State University in Portland, Oregon.

 

Harris was later accepted into The International Sculptor's Program at St. Martins School of Art, London, England (now called Central St. Martins School of Art). His teachers there were the international sculptors Sir. Anthony Caro, Philip King, and Tim Scott. Frank Martin was department head. "Are you happy here?" asked Frank Martin, his tutor.

Harris said yes, but he was absolutely not happy. They were into direct metal sculpture and he was into bronze. The school made arrangements for him to take classes(unclassified student) at the Central School of Art and Design, London.

There, Harris studied bronze casting under Henry Abercrombie, Lecturer in Bronze Casting, and master in this field. After his London studies(declaring that art schools were a waste of time), he returned to Stockholm where he lived for 20 years. Mr. Harris is also an accomplished writer.

George Murphy, Stockholm, Sweden



 Studio Jerry Harris San Francisco

 " I stopped into the Art Foundry Gallery, Sacramento, Ca. (August 2010) to see your exhibition and I was bowled over by it. I'm in awe and admiration of anyone with the genius to create something so expressive out of hard and unyielding materials. Your sculptures certainly have a life of their own--They say so much and so much more eloquently than words ever could. You are a marvel Jerry--a really great artist. The layout of the exhibition is excellent too, I think, with spots of color in your collages setting off the more stark simplicity of the sculptures which I think are placed very effectively. One of my favorites is your very strong, "Armies of the Night" placed in a more or less central location, contrasting with the very fluid, "menage a trois" silhouetted behind it. The exhibit is a joy and I am so delighted that I had a chance to see it."

Kitty Fasset

Art Patron

Oakland, California

Opening Show. Jerry Harris at The Art Foundy and Art Gallery, Sacramento, Ca. August-September 2010.





 

"The Sculpture World of Jerry Harris"

by Dr. Suzanne Fredericq is available at barnesandnoble.com and amazon.com

 

 

 



 

 

 

 

JERRY HARRIS sculpture encompasses HARRIS MULTIMEDIA LTD--graphics and collages. Mr. Harris is represented by the if Gallery(international fine art gallery)  Columbia, South Carolina. Director Professor Wim Roefs.

Member of the Swedish Sculptors Association, Stockholm, Sweden, and The Artists Rights Society, New York City, New York. He is a pass member of The associated Artists of Pittsburgh, Pa, the nation's second oldest art association in the United States.

 

 

 

Cherry. Forged Iron, fiberglass, and chrome


Private Collection.

Contact The Art Foundry and Gallery, Sacramento, California.



 

 

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