Hilary Harnischfeger (b. 1972, Melbourne, Australia) combines clay with plaster, paper, and minerals to create sculptural work that is abstract in its materiality.
SmartSpaces presented Harnischfeger’s Electric Pass (2009), Untitled (2009), and Untitled (2008) in the Regeneration exhibition in the windows of 88 Greenwich Street in downtown Manhattan.
14 x 12 inches
Harnischfeger earned a BFA from the University of Houston, Houston, TX and an MFA from Columbia University, New York, NY. The artist has been included at exhibitions at the Nerman Museum of Contemporary Art, Overland Park, KS; State University of New York at Purchase, Purchase, NY; the FLAG Art Foundation, New York, NY; MOCA Cleveland, Cleveland, OH; American University Museum at the Katzen Arts Center, Washington, DC; the American Academy of Arts and Letters, New York, NY; 80 WSE, New York, NY; Dallas Contemporary, Dallas, TX; Ballroom Marfa, Marfa, TX; Artists Space, New York, NY; and the Contemporary Arts Museum Houston, Houston, TX; among others. In 2007, Harnischfeger was the recipient of the Maria Walsh Sharpe Foundation Space Program Award. Her work is in the permanent collection of the Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH. The artist lives and works in Brooklyn, NY.
- Project: Regeneration
- Artist Website: www.racheluffnergallery.com/artists/hilary-harnischfeger