Recent Exhibitions

Impromptu - Group Show
Gallery N, Baton Rouge, LA
August 2008

Social Collection - Group Show
The Gallery Salon & Spa, Baton Rouge, LA
August 2008

Summer Art Series
Tyler & Possa Law Firm, Baton Rouge, LA
July 2008

Solo Exhibition - MUSH Series
Mestizo's, Baton Rouge, LA
June 2008

Solo Exhibition - MUSH Series
600 Main, Baton Rouge, LA
June 2008

Bright Nights White Lights
Rue Cou Cou, Baton Rouge, LA
May 2008

MUSH Series
Reginelli's Pizzeria, Baton Rouge, LA
April 2008

Aqunias League – Founders Cup
Southern Oaks, Baton Rouge, LA
March 2008

Solo Exhibition
Mestizo's, Baton Rouge, LA
March 2008

Baton Rouge Uncorked
Baton Rouge, LA
February 2008

Make Art, Make Peace
Avoyelles Cafe, Baton Rouge, LA
January 2008

Hot Art Cool Nights
Rue Cou Cou, Baton Rouge, LA
November 2007

Boudreaux and Thibodaux’s
Baton Rouge, LA
September 2007

Tsunami
Baton Rouge, LA
August 2007

Solo Exhibition – Adams and Reese Conference Gallery
Baton Rouge, LA
April – July 2007

Phantom Gallery
Baton Rouge, LA
June 2007

Bright Nights White Lights
Rue Cou Cou, Baton Rouge, LA
May 2007

Aqunias League – Parkinson’s Assoc. of LA
Bocage Country Club, Baton Rouge, LA
March 2007

St. Jude Tennis Tournament
Bocage Country Club, Baton Rouge, LA
January 2007

Hot Art Cool Nights
Rue Cou Cou, Baton Rouge, LA
November 2006

Unlocking Autism Tennis Classic
Country Club of Louisiana, Baton Rouge, LA
November 2006

Solo Exhibition
Rasputin’s, Baton Rouge, LA
June 2006

Gallery Opening
An Artist Touch, Hilton Head, SC
May 2006

Bright Nights White Lights
Rue Cou Cou, Baton Rouge, LA
May 2006

Salon Opening
Lux, Baton Rouge, LA
December 2005

Hot Art Cool Nights
Rue Cou Cou, Baton Rouge, LA
November 2005

Gallery Opening
DNM Art Group, Houston, TX
June 2005

Featured Artist of the Month
City Social Magazine
May 2005

Bright Nights White Lights
Rue Cou Cou, Baton Rouge, LA
May 2005

Art’s Alive
Fine Art’s Center, New Orleans, LA
May 2005

French Quarter Festival
New Orleans, LA
April 8-10, 2005

Solo Exhibition
Warren’s Corner, New Orleans, LA
April 2005

Keep Baton Rouge Beautiful
April 2005

Gallery Opening
Royal Blues Gallery, New Orleans, LA
March 2005

Solo Exhibition Chicago’s, Baton Rouge, LA
February 2005

Downtown Baton Rouge Art Hop
December 2004

Vino ala Arte
Lyceum Dean, Baton Rouge, LA
November 2004

OGM Gala
Baton Rouge, LA
September 2004

Louisiana Art Melt
Baton Rouge, LA
August 2004

MUSH represents the process of an unconscious act of self-recreation in the wake of extreme change - that disconnected feeling of not knowing. That once established hierarchy that governed present and future plans of my life collapses into an opaque pool of episodic introspection. To some degree, everyone experiences forms of MUSH - good and bad.

As my most recent series MUSH radically shifts the previously prevalent elements of my geometrically rigid abstracted cityscapes. Tight knit squares transform into rickety globs of unstable balconies and shuttered windows. Opened windows present new opportunities and gazes of the journey inward. Having my life planned out - the realization of the beginning middle and end comprised into a single design - only to watch those once thought eternal moments evaporate from this melted puddle of life. But reconstruction follows destruction with the promise of fruitful evolution.

I must mush forward and through with the brush! It shows that one never really knows what will happen tomorrow and one must be grateful for what they have when they have it - live the moment - love the moment.

 

 

I am fascinated by the unification of realism and abstraction. My work incorporates geometric grids to provide perspective underneath an impressionistic abstraction. “Quasi-impressionism” is a term I use to describe my work; relating more to Jean-Paul Riopelle as opposed to Philip Guston. The Abstract Impressionists of the mid-twentieth century painted abstractly with representational imagery to convey emotion. I start with the realistic, work through my painting process, to end up with a partial abstraction of my original representational image. Through different layers I control the extent of this style, blurring reality to the extreme and back again. Subjective generalizations of shape and color are employed to trigger cognitive recognition of the painting’s theme. My goal is to emotionally connect with the observer. I use the impressionistic techniques to angularly abstract images that induce imagination and instill emotion.

 

"Reality strangles the creative mind.
I want my work to touch the viewer,
Remind him of his past, a feeling, an
Event. I want it to stir the imagination."

 

My physical technique finds inspiration from the neo-expressionists, impressionists, and analytical cubists such as Kiefer, Mondrian, Johns and Picasso. I continue to explore many different subjects in my work: The chaos that is traffic at night in Manhattan; the time warp sensation of the streets in Rome; that inherent calming quality of natural beauty like palm tree lined beaches in California or cypress laden swamps in Louisiana. With each painting, I begin with the realistic image on canvas and then experiment, using impressionistic layers to obscure the detail and enhance what I believe to be the essence.

Ideas and emotions defy simplistic representation. How can a painting trigger “getting the political tragedy that was Katrina” or emote “the under appreciated serenity of the swamp”? This is where I believe abstraction is so important; often the detail of the “tree” needs to be obscured so that we can feel the essence of the “forest.” This is what I want to achieve in my painting.

 

Alexander Harvie studied under Kelli Scott Kelley and Denyce Celentano at Louisiana State University receiving his bachelors in fine art in 2005. His work has been shown in Forum 35 Art Melt and was acclaimed recently in City Social Magazine. He exhibits in several venues and galleries in the southern United States. Numerous private collectors throughout America have acquired his work. Alexander Harvie walks the fine line between realism and abstraction. He thrives to evoke feelings and imagination using a unique combination of texture, light, perspective, depth and stroke which sets his work completely apart in a trademark style that is Harvie and Harvie alone.