| michaele ann harper | |||
The
Southwestern Watercolor Society awarded Harper the Winsor & Newton
Materials Award for her watercolor "The Gambler", accepted in
the 37th Annual Membership Exhibition, September 8 - October 1, 2000, and
honored with this award by the juror, Gerald J. Fritzler. |
Harper
is a colorist who works from a wide range of subject both abstract and
objective in her studio at the Yellow House Gallery and on location. She
composes in a very improvisational way,. much like the jazz musician, with
the attitude that subject matter is secondary to the artistic process.
Works on paper and canvas in a variety of materials is her predominant
medium, although she is trained in ceramics, drawing, printmaking and
sculpture as well.
Harper's award winning work is available at her studio as well as Creative Arts Studio in Coppell, Texas; Woodbine Furniture Co. in Keller, Texas; Coastal Frameshop & Gallery in Rehoboth Beach, Delaware, and Memphis Marsha's Gallery in Bowling Green, Kentucky The artist graduated Magna Cum Laude with a BFA from Western Kentucky University in Bowling Green, Kentucky, and completed some post graduate work at the University of Louisville. She has taught workshops as well as a variety of art classes privately and at the college level. This artist has exhibited in a number of group and one person shows in galleries and public places and her work is in private and public collections in the United States and Europe, including the Opera Cadet Hotel and the Hotel Lutetia in Paris, France, and the United Cerebral Palsy of Metropolitan Dallas, Inc. in Dallas, Texas. "Panorama American" interviewed Harper about her views for an art and culture article published in Spring 1999 by Estel Arts & Communications Centre in Columbia, Maryland, Harper owned and directed the operation of the Yellow House in Fort Worth, as well as curating the shows in the gallery, She went exclusively on-line with the gallery in 2001 to be able to devote more of her time to her painting. Harper is also a Docent at the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth and has also served as a juror for art shows, was president of the Laurel Art Guild in Laurel, Maryland, and been listed in the annual editions of Art in America's Guide to Artists and Galleries, as well as several editions of Who's Who including Who's Who in American Junior Colleges, Who's Who in American Art, Who's Who in Executive's in Business and is a Who's Who life Member. |
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 Rapture Series: Tumult Acrylic & Gold Leaf on Canvas, 16" x 20", $220 SOLD |
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