Agnes Bugera Gallery

GABRYEL HARRISON & DAVID WILSON

Opening Reception
Saturday, November 19, 2011 2-4pm Artists in attendance
www.agnesbugeragallery.com

12310 Jasper Avenue
Edmonton, Alberta
T5N 3K5, Canada
Tel: (780) 482-2854

Melissa Morgan Fine Art

Gabryel will be joining Melissa Morgan Fine Art in November

Melissa Morgan Fine Art specializes in cutting-edge international contemporary art in all media, with emphases on California movements, including Light and Space/Finish Fetish, as well as sculpture and Latin American art.
The gallery strives to present museum-quality programs with visionary and distinguished painters and sculptors, as well as artists working in photography, video, and installation art.
It prides itself on the scope of its programs — especially the outstanding emerging and regional artists — and retains a particular emphasis on the relationship between abstraction and figuration, and between painting and sculpture.
Melissa Morgan Fine Art presents an extensive schedule of solo and thematic group exhibitions and interpretative programming, including artist and curator lectures and panel discussions.
The gallery also offers confidential advice and guidance to collectors, corporations, and institutions about identifying, locating, and acquiring works of art.

Melissa Morgan Fine Art
73040 El Paseo, Palm Desert Ca. 92260
760.341.1056
info@melissamorganfineart.com
www.melissamorganfineart.com

Arts Umbrella SPLASH

Splash 2011 | Arts Umbrella’s 29th Annual Art Auction & Gala

Splash Art Preview Exhibition:
September 26 to October 7, 2011
Pendulum Gallery, 885 W. Georgia St.

One of Vancouver’s most established charitable art events features a stunning collection of works by some of Canada’s most prominent artists. Splash is an experience. It is a feast for the senses, including a cocktail reception, a fine wine and food experience, performances by Arts Umbrella students, a hot DJ revving the party up and of course, 100 engaging contemporary artworks. More than 500 guests attend for the chance to bid on coveted artworks, raising much-needed funds for Arts Umbrella.

For more information
Kelly Radcliffe at 604.681.5268 x223
kradcliffe@artsumbrella.com
artsumbrella.com

International Art Center Gallery

Gabryel Harrison 60 x 60 cm Canvases now Available
www.internationalartcentre.co.nz

It is our pleasure to offer enchanting small canvases by Vancouver based Gabryel Harrison. This new series has a luscious, vibrant new pallet and will be on view from Thursday 22nd September. We look forward to seeing you here in the gallery.

Working in translucent layers of oil paint, the artist sometimes incorporates crushed rose petals or other organic or inorganic matter that becomes a physical carrier of meaning and memory. Gold leaf is occasionally used in symbolic reference to the transmutation of human consciousness, the objective of spiritual alchemy. The artist also explores text, including the physical meditation of inscribing words, phrases and marks into the surface of her paintings. The gesture reinforces her philosophy that words, and the imaginative impulse behind them, have the power to transform reality. The physical acts of painting and of writing is the artist's self-abandonment to the challenge of life's ambiguities, her pleasures, her melancholy, her tenderness and her joys.

Extravagent Ruby
Oil on canvas

International Art Centre: Fleurs

About the Exhibition
What could be more joyful than an exhibition celebrating one of Mother Natures' greatest gifts, flowers. Floral abundance has long been a theme beloved by artists. Ancient civilizations used floral motifs as adornment. Floral symbolism played an important part in early religious art, whilst by the 1400's Northern European artists were refining the genre of still life painting. Today, works by Patricia Payne and Marietta embody these historical artistic traditions.
It is with great pleasure, excitement and enthusiasim that we welcome Canadian based Gabryel Harrison to International Art Centre. Born in Tauranga, Gabryel completed her Fine Arts Degree at the University of Ottawa in 1980 and has since painted and exhibited in Vancouver.
In closing, I wish to extend sincere thanks to these gifted and artists and the wonderful International Art Centre team who have so ably assisted with curating this special exhibition. As we celebrate 40 fabulous years in business warmest wishes and thanks to you, our valued friends and clients.

View 'Fleurs' catalogue via Issuu website

International Art Centre
272 Parnell Road, Auckland
P.O. Box 37-344,
Parnell, Auckland 1151
New Zealand
phone +64 9 3666 045
fax +64 9 307 3421
fran@artcntr.co.nz
www.internationalartcentre.co.nz

Agnes Bugera Gallery

Gabryel is excited to now be represented by the Agnes Bugera Gallery in Edmonton, Alberta.

www.agnesbugeragallery.com

12310 Jasper Avenue
Edmonton, Alberta
Canada
T5N 3K5

Tel: (780) 482-2854
Fax: (780) 482-2591

North Shore News: Mixed messages - A17

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The Province: Painting poetry into her work

BY HANS ONGSANSOY


Once upon a time, this writer was invited to visit artist Gabryel Harrison's studio in the Southlands area of the city.
To have that opportunity with any artist is a cherished one, a chance to experience the environment that directly informs the creative experience. Alas, it's a visit that has yet to be paid.
Luckily, there is our feature Portraits of an Artist, a weekly chat with an artist who has a current exhibit in town. Harrison has such a show. It's titled All the Things I Never Said and opens tonight at the Winsor Gallery (3025 Granville St.)...

Read more: http://www.theprovince.com/

November 4, 2010

Straight.com: Winsor Gallery

November 4 - 27

Sensuous and richly textured, the mixed-media paintings of New Zealand–born Vancouver artist and poet Gabryel Harrison, exhibited at the Winsor Gallery from Thursday (November 4) to November 27, beg to be touched. In eight of the 16 pieces on display, Harrison had her poetry translated into Braille, which she then applied to panels and covered with gold leaf, giving the work added meaning hidden in plain view. For her piece Spill 1 (Agamemnon Channel) (seen above), Harrison applied gold leaf and bitumen to a marine chart, sounding a message as clear as a scream. A video piece and a sound sculpture round out the exhibition, which also features the artist’s deep-hued floral oil paintings...

Read More:http://www.straight.com/article-356166/vancouver/gabryel-harrison-winsor-gallery

Vancouver Courier: Painter's latest exhibition full of textual appeal Former New Zealander gets poetic about Braille, leather pants

BY MICHAEL KISSINGER

Gabryel Harrison's latest exhibition, All The Things I Never Said, is a series of mixed-media paintings incorporating Braille, which the poet and painter succinctly says is about sex, death and money. The former New Zealander took time from her busy schedule to discuss love, language and subtle nuances of wearing leather pants...

Read more: http://www.vancourier.com/

Vancouver View Magazine: Style - So Much More then Just Fashion Sense

The Fanny Kiefer Show: Studio 4, Shaw TV

A Life in Art - Gabryel is a guest at the Fanny Kiefer Show

Fanny Kiefer Show from gabryel Harrison on Vimeo.

June 2010

Vancouver Courier: Unite with Arts

Metro Vancouver: Unite with Art

Artist Gabryel Harrison, right, and partner Swan are thrilled as her art piece, which features gold leaf and a braille poem, is sold for $25,000 at the UNICEF gala. Read the article in Metro Vancouver.

National Post: Unite with Art

Gabryel Harrison's gorgeous gold-leaf “Though Blinded, We Know Love by its Touch” was a big earner.

The Province: It's art that touches the heart

Winsor Gallery: November 4 - 27, 2010

Arts Umbrella SPLASH

Performance Works
Granville Island
6:30PM to midnight
For more information:
artsumbrella.com

Didos Lament
43x43
Oil on panel

Unite with Art: Art Auction and Gala

Arts Umbrella SPLASH

Winsor Gallery: February 11 - March 8, 2009

Art for Life: Fine Art Auction to benefit Friends for Life

Art Toronto: Toronto International Art Fair

Preview The Gallery Guide: Forms of Praise

Media Coverage

by Mia Johnson

With her third solo exhibition at Jacana Gallery in so many years, Vancouver artist Gabryel Harrison delivers another passionate and edgy body of work. In some of the finest and most self–assured painting in Vancouver, Harrison plumbs the essence of blood–red and labia–pink flowers in dripping and tumbling compositions of blossoms and buds. Her search for what she describes as “the pain and passion...the struggle and the ultimate surrender...of our own existence” is palpable, as if she has plunged her hands into the darkness of entrails and wrenched flowers forward onto the picture plane. continue