MARQUEE PROJECTS is pleased to present our next two-person exhibition titled Budding, featuring paintings by Larry Wolhandler and sculptures by Fukuko Harris.

A reception for the artists will be held on Saturday, April 23, from 5 - 7pm.

The force that through the green fuse drives the flower
Drives my green age.                            –Dylan Thomas

If artists in their maturity are fortunate enough, they will continue to create work that’s younger than springtime. In the case of long-time art colleagues Fukuko Harris and Larry Wolhandler, they have done just that. Over the years we have presented solo exhibitions of both Harris and Wolhandler, as well as included them in group exhibitions. Both are Marquee Projects represented artists. This is their first tandem exhibit, and their most recent playful forays present a perfect opportunity to compare and contrast.

Wolhandler’s canvases represent a decades-long investigation into and extrapolation of the possibilities of the grid. They combine a joy of structure with a luxurious, subtle sense of color; a soft, sanded-down tactility; and a nod to formalism, architecture, and systems represented in botanical prints. The paintings have been carefully tended over time, with special regard afforded to elements of accident, erasure, and layers of process.

And while equally deeply considered, Harris’s sculptures have long explored the possibilities of form and mass in ways that appear spontaneous – ranging from fanciful, Dr. Seuss-like wiry assemblages to more solid pieces suggesting a gleeful child-like discovery of the delights of Play-Doh, paint, and mark-making. Her use of a wide array of repurposed material invents objects that attain their own improvised identities: vibrant, organic blooms springing up in a garden of the imagination