monochromatic painting
The Tahoma Center Gallery presents “Black & White, abstracted,” featuring 36”x 36” monochromatic paintings by JW Harrington. The spacious gallery is on the second floor of the former St. Leo High School. Come upstairs to be amazed by how much boldness can be rendered in black, white, and grays!
5 July – 30 August 2022
Monday – Friday 8:30AM – 5PM
(Check in at main floor entry)
during the Downtown Art Walk
1323 S. Yakima Ave., Tacoma WA 98405
As a painter, I want to give you the power to see whatever images, symbols, or interactions you need to see in my compositions.
This is why I decided to paint a set of 36” square canvases with a palette limited to black, white, and grays mixed from them. Thus, the variables at play were value, shape, and the combination of shapes to form a composition. From the beginning, I decided to limit my shapes to basic geometric forms: square, rectangle, line (well, not true one-dimensional lines, which would be quite invisible), and circle. This decision resulted from my 2020 reading and writing on Russian Suprematism as championed by Kazimir Malevich (1879-1935).