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David Greg Harth

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Paintings

“Sex,” “Money,” “God,” “Art,” & “You”
Acrylic paint on five 12" x 12" canvases
5 x Each: 304.8mm x 304.8mm / 12” x 12”
1995
New City, New York
95.07.01.01:00@NewCityNY
© David Greg Harth

Note: Five paintings displayed together as a group

Better image coming soon.


I’m not much of a painter.

As you can see, I’m really not much of a painter. But, here they are, in all their glory. I recognize I’m not a good painter, a great painter, or even a painter. However, I think it’s important for me to share this work here, to make myself vulnerable, to put my weaknesses on display. By doing that, one learns and one becomes stronger in all of their practices. With failure, comes growth. Oddly, none of these look like my favorite artist of all time; Robert Ryman. I guess you’d never know that his work inspires me so much.


The few paintings below are from the St. Petersburg series.

Untitled (The Neighborhood) [part of the St. Petersburg Paintings Series]
Acrylic Paint and Ink on Foam Core Board
121.92cm x 121.92cm / 48” x 48”
1999
St.Petersburg, Florida
99.07.27.12:00:00@St.PetersburgFL
© David Greg Harth

Apologies for the bad photo. No other photos exist of this work and this work no longer exists.

Not Me [part of the St. Petersburg Paintings Series]
Acrylic Paint and Ink on Foam Core Board
121.92cm x 121.92cm / 48” x 48”
1999
St.Petersburg, Florida
99.07.27.00:00:00@St.PetersburgFL
© David Greg Harth

Apologies for the bad photo. No other photos exist of this work and this work no longer exists.

Untitled (Orange & Blue) [part of the St. Petersburg Paintings Series]
Acrylic Paint, Tape, and Ink on Foam Core Board
121.92cm x 243.84cm / 48” x 96”
1999
St.Petersburg, Florida
99.07.26.23:00:00@St.PetersburgFL
© David Greg Harth

Apologies for the bad photo. No other photos exist of this work and this work no longer exists.

Don’t Look At Me [part of the St. Petersburg Paintings Series]
Acrylic Paint and Ink on Foam Core Board
121.92cm x 243.84cm / 48” x 96”
1999
St.Petersburg, Florida
99.07.25.00:00:00@St.PetersburgFL
© David Greg Harth

Apologies for the bad photo. No other photos exist of this work and this work no longer exists.

Untitled (Tree) [part of the St. Petersburg Paintings Series]
Acrylic Paint and Ink on Foam Core Board
121.92cm x 243.84cm / 48” x 96”
1999
St.Petersburg, Florida
99.07.26.00:00:00@St.PetersburgFL
© David Greg Harth

Apologies for the bad photo. No other photos exist of this work and this work no longer exists.


Yellow & Red

Yellow & Red
Wood, Spray Paint, Cloth, 81 Finishing Nails
609.6mm x 609.6mm x 127mm / 24” x 24” x 5”
1996
New York, New York
96.10.01.01:00@31UNSQWNYC
© David Greg Harth

Note: Yellow cloth covers the board. The board was first painted red, however, the viewer can not see the red paint. A poem goes with this painting.

 Better image coming soon

  • “Yellow & Red”

    An angular turn toward the sky,
    A screeching yell
    He opens wide,
    Yells to the heavens...
    Maybe asking, a Why? 

    He turns, twists,
    As the thunder holds him,
    Tightly grasps him, squeezes,
    He yells, screeches, 

    His pain, in red and yellow,
    furious anger,
    it rages above the land,
    above the white cotton fields,
    above the singular eggs,
    above the smell of death,

    His pain, he yells,
    Maybe asking, a Why?
    The reds, oranges, and yellows,
    The anger, the pain,
    Always alone, never lonely.

    His teeth, sharp
    His tongue, drips of blood,
    bitten too hard,
    after a midnight puncture

    A morning call
    A nighttime fall
    After hours,
    No more 

    Liquid down, time to feed,
    the wind breaks the silence
    the passengers cross the river
    the obesity, the unshaven, that voice above,
    and maybe later,

    A higher one.

    His pain, he yells,
    In yellow and red,
    for no love can rescue
    for no love can predict

    He thinks they are fake, they are real
    He notices one by one,
    and takes a poll

    He comes down
    for a while
    Watches the shadow
    from a 12th floor window

    Watches the rain,
    the beasts,
    the rich men too.

    The arrested man,
    convicted from his mother,
    from gold to poor,
    from a voice of no more.

    His pain reaches out,
    for a higher reason,
    a wonderful dream,
    no.
    not this time.

    Yellow and red, slash them tonight.
    Yellow and red, may I be yours tonight?
    Yellow and red, he fuck her, she fuck him.
    Yellow and red, my father

    Yellow and red, a lover in bed
    Yellow and red, he wants suicide
    Yellow and red, one is good
    Yellow and red, anger is food

    His pain, it comes deep within
    But surely you know,
    It isn’t a jX or a hooker
    It isn’t a nX or a chic
    It isn’t a gX or a cheese
    It isn’t a pig or a fowl

    Its that Yellow and Red.

    The blood of anger.

    You know what it is
    What it is caused by.

    Maybe you are part of it.
    Maybe you are not.

    Yellow and Red.

    © 1997 David Greg Harth97.05.05.01:34:00@31USQWNYC

     


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