DANNA RUTH HARVEY Memorial Park I Image:  One Hundred Roots are Silently Drinking, Sold Four Square                                                                                                                                     Artist's Biography Danna Harvey’s remarkable paintings reconcile two of her loves – paint and cloth.  Using this unusual medium, she evokes ethereal landscapes and blurs the boundaries between traditional representational painting and symbolic abstraction.   Harvey does not intend for her landscapes to reference actual geographical locations, but instead she wants them to evoke a different reality – our emotions.     “My paintings are simply about arranging form and positioning elements to express emotion.  I choose the landscape genre because historically it offers a workable pretext to convey human experience allegorically.  Treescapes in particular lend themselves to such a reading.  The vertical tree and standing figure analogy provides subtle opportunities to communicate feeling.”   The paintings are sometimes composed of deconstructed and recycled clothing.  The cloth and threads are pieced together into new patterns.  Harvey loves the stitches, stains, and holes that remain in the cloth.  “I respect and appreciate the Japanese aesthetic of wabi-sabi.  It teaches that beauty can be coaxed out of ugliness.  As I work on a piece, it changes with each additional layer.  I “worry” the cloth, fray the threads, cut and sew the edges, and add pieces to the borders.  And finally, embedding the cloth and threads in wax is a method of preserving and metaphorically a way of remembering.” Education       2004  Recipient MFA Graduate Award 2003    MFA, Johnson State College, Johnson, VT 1995  BFA, University of Houston, Houston, TX 1991    Certificate of Achievement, Glassell School of Art   Selected Solo Exhibitions       2007  Paint and Cloth, Buchanan Gallery, Galveston, TX.       2007  Paint and Cloth, Habatat Gallery, Tysons Corner, VA. 2006    Patternmaker, Chase Gallery, Boston, MA 2005  Memory Survival, Craighead-Green Gallery, Dallas, TX 2004  Time Stream, Buchanan Gallery, Galveston, TX 2003    Redefining Time, Chase Gallery, Boston, MA 2003    Redefining Time, Johnson State College, Johnson, VT 2003    Time Passing, Craighead-Green Gallery, Dallas, TX 2002    Outside of Time, Buchanan Gallery, Galveston, TX 2002    Time and Other Times, Chase Gallery, Boston, MA(two person) 2002    Restructuring Time, Cole Pratt Gallery, New Orleans, LA 2001    The Liminal Line, Chase Gallery, Boston, MA 2000    Making Calm, Buchanan Gallery, Galveston, TX 2000    Landscape, Cole Pratt Gallery, New Orleans, LA 1999    The Quiet Line, Buchanan Gallery, Galveston, TX 1999    Gentle Concealment, Archway Gallery, Houston, TX 1998    A Fragile Quiet, Takara Gallery, Houston, TX 1996  A Quiet Sensibility, Buchanan Gallery, Galveston, TX 1994    The Cloister Gallery, Christ Church Cathedral, Houston, TX 1992    A Woman’s Life, The Woman’s Hospital of Texas, Houston, TX 1991    Moody Medical Library, University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, TX 1991    Okane Gallery, University of Houston, Houston, TX 1991    The Cloister Gallery, Christ Church Cathedral, Houston, TX 1991    The C.G. Jung Educational Center of Houston, Houston, TX   Selected Group Exhibitions       2008  Modern Landscape, Chase Gallery, Boston, MA 2003    The Landscape, Ameringer Yohe Gallery, Boca Raton, FL 2002  Premiere Exhibition, Chase Gallery, Wilmington, NC 2002  10th Anniversary Show, Craighead-Green Gallery, Dallas, TX 2000  New Landscapes, Chase Gallery, Boston, MA 1999    Buchanan Gallery, Galveston, TX 1998  Three person show, Buchanan Gallery, Galveston, TX