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Member Since: May 11, 2020 | Last Activity: Jun 18, 2023
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Katharine Harvey is a contemporary Canadian artist with a 35-year history specializing in public art, painting, and sculpture. Her projects range from site-specific artworks to colourful large-scale architectural windows to kinetic sculptures playing with fantasy and light. She has designed both temporary and permanent installations - made of recycled plastic, glass, mosaic, LED lights, and steel - in Canada, the U.S., and Germany.
Harvey studied at Queen's University for her BFA and received her Master of Fine Arts at the University of Victoria, B.C. She has exhibited across Canada and Hamburg, New York, Los Angeles, Monterey Bay, and Washington, D.C. The artist is represented by Galerie Borchardt in Hamburg, Germany.
Great Gulf commissioned Harvey to create art installations for 25 Richmond Street East in Toronto. Shea's Victoria, (2020), recalls the elaborately decorated Beaux-Arts interior of the theatre which stood on this site from 1910 to 1956. The artist found the original 1908 blueprints at the City Archives showing flamboyant ornamentation inside the vaudeville playhouse. Her designs feature repeating patterns referencing the first "moving pictures" of celluloid film. A feat of engineering, the complex lightboxes hold three layers of float glass arranged in depth, the first of their kind constructed on this scale. Mayer of Munich fabricated the 420 square feet of hand-painted float glass in three different areas on the property.
The Toronto Transit Commission awarded the artist a contract to design integrated artworks at Chester Subway Station. Her concept, Florae, (2020), is a series of wall mosaics and art glass elements. Harvey depicts native plants of the region in several innovative ways. Firstly, she creates double-exposed photographic overlays – a visual language rarely seen in mosaics. Realistic depictions juxtaposed with abstract interventions push the imagery in new directions. Secondly, the tiles depict the movement of wind – an unconventional application of stationary wall works. Thirdly, the artist re-used many hand-glazed ceramic tiles left over from other artists' projects. Mosaika of Montreal fabricated the mosaics, and Pulp Studio (California) produced PIX Imaging prints for the art glass above the entrance.
The artist’s latest work was a sky performance with 108 illuminated flying drones at night. The 300 x 300 x 100 foot drone show enacted eight scenes, some based on her acrylic paintings. Turning in the Light contemplated the mystery of the cosmos. Northstar Drone Shows programmed the flight paths of the drones to paint each artistic image in the sky. In her subsequent six-minute art film, Harvey manipulated the aerial footage of the show to create additional special effects. In turn, she is currently working on new paintings based on the film.
Gardiner Streams (2016), one of her first public art commissions, is based on a photographic collage of car lights as they speed by at night. The 74-foot-long glass-mounted digital print inspired Streams - a painting series completed a year later that similarly meditates on impermanence through flowing ribbons of colour.
Harvey studied at Queen's University for her BFA and received her Master of Fine Arts at the University of Victoria, B.C. She has exhibited across Canada and Hamburg, New York, Los Angeles, Monterey Bay, and Washington, D.C. The artist is represented by Galerie Borchardt in Hamburg, Germany.
Great Gulf commissioned Harvey to create art installations for 25 Richmond Street East in Toronto. Shea's Victoria, (2020), recalls the elaborately decorated Beaux-Arts interior of the theatre which stood on this site from 1910 to 1956. The artist found the original 1908 blueprints at the City Archives showing flamboyant ornamentation inside the vaudeville playhouse. Her designs feature repeating patterns referencing the first "moving pictures" of celluloid film. A feat of engineering, the complex lightboxes hold three layers of float glass arranged in depth, the first of their kind constructed on this scale. Mayer of Munich fabricated the 420 square feet of hand-painted float glass in three different areas on the property.
The Toronto Transit Commission awarded the artist a contract to design integrated artworks at Chester Subway Station. Her concept, Florae, (2020), is a series of wall mosaics and art glass elements. Harvey depicts native plants of the region in several innovative ways. Firstly, she creates double-exposed photographic overlays – a visual language rarely seen in mosaics. Realistic depictions juxtaposed with abstract interventions push the imagery in new directions. Secondly, the tiles depict the movement of wind – an unconventional application of stationary wall works. Thirdly, the artist re-used many hand-glazed ceramic tiles left over from other artists' projects. Mosaika of Montreal fabricated the mosaics, and Pulp Studio (California) produced PIX Imaging prints for the art glass above the entrance.
The artist’s latest work was a sky performance with 108 illuminated flying drones at night. The 300 x 300 x 100 foot drone show enacted eight scenes, some based on her acrylic paintings. Turning in the Light contemplated the mystery of the cosmos. Northstar Drone Shows programmed the flight paths of the drones to paint each artistic image in the sky. In her subsequent six-minute art film, Harvey manipulated the aerial footage of the show to create additional special effects. In turn, she is currently working on new paintings based on the film.
Gardiner Streams (2016), one of her first public art commissions, is based on a photographic collage of car lights as they speed by at night. The 74-foot-long glass-mounted digital print inspired Streams - a painting series completed a year later that similarly meditates on impermanence through flowing ribbons of colour.