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Title: Wonderful Memories of Jane Harris!

Medium: Photographic Collage

Dimensions: 8” x 10”

Artist: Sandy Levy

Price:  NFS  I have gifted this print to Kenton Harris.

I realized late that the artist friends of Jane were invited to exhibit at HARRISART on Saturday February 15.  I decided to put together a collage of some photographs showing the good times that Barbara and I had with Jane and Kenton.  There were hundreds of images from which to choose, and selection was therefore quite difficult.  I settled on these, however this collage could have been made In dozens of different configurations, and each version would have been equally charming.  I hope these photographs bring a smile to the viewer’s faces, as they have done with Barbara and me.

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Title:  Corazón

Medium:  Fiber Sculpture

(Hand knit, embroidered hand dyed merino yarn. Mounted on a cork board and a brown canvas.

Dimensions:  8” x 8”

Artist: Evelyn Politzer

Price:  $350

The brown canvas Jane herself helped me paint with her own acrylic paint.

Title:   BFF (Breast Friends Forever)

Medium:  Fiber Sculpture

(Hand  crocheted, hand dyed merino yarn.

Dimensions:   Between 3” x 3” and 4” x 4”

Artist: Evelyn Politzer

Price:  $100 each

These fiber sculptures were hand crocheted to honor breast cancer victims and appeared in an exhibit here entitled “Fiber Optics.”

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Title: Personage 6- "La Chismosa"

Medium: Mixed Media on Canvas

Dimensions: 30" x 40"

Artist: Maruchi Carmona 

Price: $2,500

 

Maruchi explained to me that she paints persons.  People she knows or knew.  But more precisely, she paints spirits.  When Jane visited Maruchi at her studio and saw this painting Jane said, “Oh that one's nosey.”  This is why the artist named the painting "La Chismosa."  When later Jane exhibited the painting at a gallery showing in this space, Jane placed it in proximity to a sculpture and which the painted figure seemed to be staring intently.  Nosey indeed.

 

The Birdman

Title: The Birdman

Medium: Acrylic on Canvas

Dimensions: 11" x 14"

Artist: MANO

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The first time I visited Jane in her studio in the Bird Road Art District she was painting beautiful botanicals with painstaking details in a small room in the front part of her studio, but in the back of the house she was developing a series completely different in style and technique, loose, exciting black birds were taking flight across her canvases. We talked about the birds as a metaphor for so many things but mostly freedom and why perhaps the Bird Road Art District was named after the birds if that. Apparently we both loved to incorporate the black bird in our work and we bonded over this and so many other things.

 

When Jane first visited my studio I showed her the Birdman, she loved it and years later it formed part in one of the last group shows that curated.

 

At the time that Jane moved into the Bird Road Art District many artists were involved in Free Art Fridays, an interesting movement where artists leave their artwork out around town and provide clues via a FB page the art is free to whoever finds it. Jane loved this idea and started working on sets of black birds depicted on small canvases. I’m not sure if I am the only person who ever found her blackbirds, but I was lucky to find three small canvases 2" x 3" each carefully hidden in front of the post office on Bird Road. I was also lucky not to be arrested by a police officer who was watching me search through the bushes and asked what I was doing. 

 

Jane met many people through Free Art Fridays and collaborated with members on different themed Fridays. I remember her working with Barbara de Varona to develop the theme of "Put A Bird on it" which turned that month’s art walk into a scavenger hunt.

 

I know that Jane loved many things... among them black birds.

 

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Title:  Sunflower Field

April 2018

Medium:  Acrylic on Arches paper

Dimensions: 13” diameter image (19.25" x 19.25" framed)

Artist: Miguel Rodez

Price:  NSF (In a private collection)

 

Among the last of Jane's inspiring art series was a collection that recalled Vincent Van Gogh's sunflowers. I was fortunate to see Jane in the process of painting some of the sunflower pieces that formed part of that collection. Although she was aware that I also painted flowers she never got to see my Sunflower Field. Although it now forms part of a private collection, it still reminds me of Jane whenever I see it.

Title: H2O

Medium: Photography

Dimensions: 32 x 22

Artist: Hector Gonzalez

Price: $300

This piece appeared in the first exhibition that I did that Jane attended.  Jane liked it. The exhibition was part of a TA project.

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Title: Extraordinary Women

Medium: Mixed media on a broken door

Dimensions: 24x36 in

Artist: Maria Patino

2017

Price: $900

This piece was created from a broken door given to me by Jane during those long visits to her studio. I saw the broken door on the side of her studio and I inquired about it, she said “take it”! Is yours! Then she went on to tell me about it.

 

I asked her if she had any plans for it, but she continued to tell me to take it. I then went to work on it right away. I turned it into an installation piece honoring all my female ancestors, all the women that have contributed to my spiritual and creative growth. 

 

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Title:  Hello world

Medium:  Mixed media and collage on a discarded book

Dimensions: 9x6x2

Artist: Maria Patino

2019

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I would also like to participate with my altered book I was working on last year.  The moment I found out Jane had passed away I spent many hours thinking on her and all the memories we had together. The spread here, became the artwork I did the same day I found out she had passed. Living through this experience and letting go of Jane brought me back memories of my mother’s death from colon cancer. I’m grateful for having the opportunity to meet Jane.  She touched my life in many ways. She would always have a place in my heart.

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Title:  Jane Doe: Lost & Found, 2018

Medium:  Mixed media on canvas board

Dimensions: 12.5 in x 17 in x 2.75 in

Artist:  Jean Blackwell Font

Price: $750

 

JN was always bringing me materials to work with. I didn’t always know what to do with the things she brought me, but I always was happy to receive them. Anytime I had a chance to visit with her and talk with her, I was happy for the opportunity.

 

One day I was working on an idea for a piece and I mentioned that I needed an old wedding ring for this particular work. It was going to be based on a story that I was told about something that happened to my mother when I was very young: the day my mother disappeared.

 

She suffered from mental illness, and it wasn’t the first or the last time that she would vanish. Eventually, the police found my mother: no identification, no personal items, and her wedding band was gone. Fortunately, she was alive and well but she did not know who she was.

 

The police eventually returned my mother to her husband, my dad. The story haunts me. I shared the story with Jane as I was working it out in materials.

 

The next day, Jane left a tiny little plastic bag filled with miscellaneous objects. In that bag she included a little ring that had lost its stone. She later confessed to me that that ring was her first promise ring. It meant so much to me, and that ring is a key element in the work which can be seen in the lower right hand corner of the artwork. It is titled Jane Doe: lost and found. Jane‘s name is included on purpose, and was built into the title because of her important contribution and support of my work.

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Title: Violets Are Blue

Medium: Acrylic on Gallery-wrapped canvas

Dimensions: 20" x 20" x 1-1/2

Artist: Carol Gregoire

Price: $1000

 

I mostly do expressive landscapes and flowers, although I have not done any sunflowers, mostly because I probably could not do them justice like Jane did. 

 

We share the love of nature and books. I chose this piece because the title signifies how we feel when we lose someone.

Title: Memories in Columns #3 

April 2019

Medium: Oil on canvas Dimensions:  9' x 2'

Artist: Ismael Gomez-Peralta Price: Speak with Artist

 

 

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Title:  we are too! 

Medium:  Mixed media on canvas

Dimensions:  51” x 76-1/4”

Artist: Ignacio Font

Price: $3310.

 

 

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Title: Miranda’s Heads

Medium: Mixed Media on Paper

Dimensions: 30” x 22”

Artist: Maria Sonia Martin

Price: 1800

There is a very obvious correlation to a woman's body and the perils of cancer treatment, the three women's head, bodies refer to the 'numbers'... of afflicted women that have suffered such maladies.

Title:  Untitled (3)

2016

Medium:  Collage/Mixed Media

Dimensions: 7” X 5”

Artist: Antonio Gonzalez-Nuñez

Price: $75 Each 

These collages are a connection between Jane and me because we both loved birds.

 

The subject became a joke because she always made a reference to birds in every work that I did, even when I was not representing them in my work. She would say: "Of course it's a bird".

 

I found birds in her works too and that became a mutual "game" in finding each other our involuntary tendency toward those feathered creatures. She was them talking about her plans about doing a show with 'Birds" as a theme. Finally that was the catharsis for her and me.

 

Liliana Aguilar

Title: Little Shaman

 (2016)

Medium: Oil on Canvas

Dimensions: 16” X 12” Artist: Liliana Leiro

Price: $300

 

This is the portrait of what I imagine a young Shaman looks like..., engaged, sagacious, all embracing. Jane had all these qualities and more. She lovingly embraced us all under her caring tent.

 

Title: Kanisha

Medium: Mixed Media

Dimensions: 14” x 17”

Artist: Macarena Zilveti

Price: $500

 

When I was ready to take this series to canvas, Jane came to mind. I had always admired her art and I knew she would give me her honest, professional opinion. I called and asked if she could meet with me and I'd explain my vision to her. We met for hours in her studio as she listened and gave me advice. I will always treasure that time spent together, as we talked about our childhoods, commiserating about life and art.

 

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Title: The Corset

Medium: Photo

Dimensions: 20” x 26”

Artist: Rosee Camafreita

Price:

 

“The Corset” was Jane’s favorites from the exhibit “Drive by Shooting and Walkabout Snapshots” with Ali Miranda.

 

 

Title:  ALL YOU NEED IS LOVE

Medium: Ink on Wood

Dimensions: 9”x14” & 14”x9”

Artist: Joan Futscher

Price:

ALL YOU NEED IS LOVE

 

Jane and Kenton opened this studio in 2013 after Jane had retired from her position as Head of the Art Department and beloved Art instructor at La Salle High School. Kenton is my brother and Jane my close friend and a mentor to my creative leanings, they graciously invited me to take part in this artistic endeavor and to be a helpful assistant due to a very bad home accident in which Jane had incurred several injuries including a broken arm, badly dislocated shoulder, and a knee injury. This accident hastened her retirement from La Salle, but Jane had much she still wanted to do, and so this studio space came to be. Kenton was very busy as Dean of Students and teaching professor of Philosophy at FIU, so he would be glad there was someone here with Jane while he worked and she developed the space into a working studio. What a gift to me!! Daily working with a knowledgeable, experienced, accomplished, excessively talented and rather deep and thoughtful woman/friend almost every day for almost 3 years!

I am so grateful - especially for many good memories together, she gifted me with seeing through her eyes, how to let art lead me through hard places that I didn't have words for only shapes and colors -  and the acceptance that  that was enough for now.

 

These small paintings of 2 birds on wood are reminiscent of those quietly productive days when we had settled into working on a particular piece or project with sporadic sessions of conversation about,  oh...everything.

Our thoughts often led us back to the realization that people need each other, whether building or being a part of a community if we had expectations of success or just the completion of a worthy goal.

 

The habits and traits of birds are a fine example (for me at least) of the characteristics we pondered and tried to emulate in order to shape our microcosm here at her studio and be productive in a positive way both privately and professionally. Making plans, using foresight in finding advantageous opportunities or to avoid those errors in judgment that can be devastating to projects that include other artists that we wanted to include and/or work with. We wanted to work together within established foundations and not be isolated (that's more my modus operandi, NOT Jane's ). And we had the joy of expectation, anticipation of being included in other shows, being able to nurture each other while waiting for progress or not seeing our own progress, or doubting ourselves and our own progress and merit.

 

Thank you Jane and Kenton, my tears are of joy as much as of sorrow. Your heart lives in my heart -  Forever.

 

God willing my actions will hold an echo of your fabulous essence.

Joan Futscher

 

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Title: Tribute to Jane Harris

Medium: Collage on paper

Dimensions: 8"x10"

Artist: Linda Faneuf

Price: $300

 

Jane met Linda decades ago when the two of them were pioneering artists in the new-formed fledgling South Florida Art Center on Lincoln Road, Miami Beach.  They remain friends and productive artists here in South Florida.  In October of 2018, Jane featured Linda’s work here in a show entitled: Gladys Crosses the Causeway.  I believe that this was the last formal exhibition that Jane launched.  It was very successful and Jane could not have been more pleased. 

Title: Shitbucks

Medium: Colored Pencil on Paper

Dimensions: 9” x 11” (Framed)

Artist: Bill Amundson

Price: NFS

Bill Amundson is a Wisconsin native and made a name for himself as a successful and prolific artist while living in Colorado for 35 years.  Jane and I came to know Bill when he met and married Jane’s sister, Anita James.  Jane loved Bill’s work, not only his mastery of technique but his wry and quirky sense of visual humor, not unlike Jane’s own.  Jane acquired this piece as a gift for me and I have displayed in my office ever since.

Title: Sparkle

Medium: Acrylic on Paper

Dimensions: 10” x 13” (Framed)

Artist: Michelle Perez

Price:

Michelle is the youngest artists to show in this gallery.  She made this work especially for this exhibit using some of Jane’s art supplies..

Title:  Once Upon A Tail

Medium:   Merino Wool,  Tussah Silk, Wet Felted

Dimensions:  25” x 18”

Artist: Sharon Spaker

Price: $300

To be donated to the Ovarian Cancer Research Alliance (OCRA)

 

Dear Kenton,

 

Jane was so kind and encouraging to me in my felting. The Fiber Optics show orchestrated by Jane of the three novice artists was, I dare say, a milestone for each of us. I would like to rework a piece that Jane excepted for that show ( now that I know more). You probably won’t recognize the felt but I know that the green felt scraps which Jane “found” when you both were at our house for dinner continued to pop up in the studio for a long time after. So like her to collect the scraps and encourage the maker.

 

I will measure the piece which I now would hang, with a picture of the original showing.

 

I miss our chats. Jane was a wonderful friend.

 

All my best to you,

Sharon

 

 

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Ana Maria Sarlat

Title: Loving Jane

Medium: Photo

Dimensions: 11” x 14”

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Artist: Ana Maria Sarlat

Price: Priceless

A portrait of Jane photographing a natural ephemeral work of art in her Honor and this is my portrait of her... it is something I for made her on a rainy day with found objects and she was very surprised when she opened her door of her studio and found the gift stuck to her car window.  Then she started photographing it and I took the shot. It’s a forever heart.

 

 

Title:  Gull in Flight

Medium:  Photography

Dimensions:  8” x 10”

Artist: Sandy Levy

Price:  NFS This print is from the Jane Harris collection

This photo was special to Jane and is special to me.  As we all know, Jane loved birds and she also incorporated birds into her many media of artwork.  It was Jane who suggested that I display a larger print of this image in the first BRADICA Exhibit two years ago.  This photograph is a composite that I put together using two separate images; sky and the gull.  It was a challenge due to the fact that in order to make it believable, the sky needed to show through the semi-transparent feathers near the bird’s wing tips.  In any event, I was able to accomplish the effect I desired. Jane liked this image so much, that it was my pleasure to gift this print to her.  Naturally this particular print is not for sale, but other prints are available upon request.

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Title: Sunflower-Passage

Medium: Photo

Dimensions: 8 in x 10 in

Artist:  Ali X Miranda

Price: $200

 

 

Title: Massacre at the Birdhouse

Medium: Acrylic on Wood

Dimensions: 11”x20”x9”

Artist:  Tony Mendoza  

Price: Speak with Artist

Jane loved this piece, in spite of herself.