Thank you @jzother and @whatsonla for picking Michael Harnish’s exhibition Shangri-La as the Pick of the Week!!! “Traversing the paintings in sequence is like a journey through a seemingly familiar yet completely unknown and disorienting landscape. Between what is recognizable — flowers, trees, leaves — and the abstract shapes and swaths of color and textured paint that allude to the natural world are reproductions of images with white borders or ragged edges that reinforce the notion of collage. Harnish's montages are not about past and present, but rather explore the relationships between reproduction, observation and memory/imagination. His version of Shangri-La is an inviting yet ambiguous place filled with an array of styles and references, more fragmented and dystopic than an image of paradise.” - Jody Zellen #michaelharnish #whatsonla (at Lowell Ryan Projects) https://www.instagram.com/p/CkmLN2hvuqf/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=