About JOLIE
Jolie Harris is an expressionist process painter exploring chance patterns and visual events discovered in the natural world. Harris studied at the California College of Design, The Art Academy of Cincinnati, and the Boca Raton Museum of Art School.
She has exhibited her work in solo and group shows at art fairs, commercial, nonprofit, university, and alternative spaces throughout the United States. She is based in Cincinnati, Ohio and Delray Beach, Florida.
About the artWork
My work is about the exploration of the evocative emotional power of random patterns and visual events in nature. Feeling straight from the heart is squeezed through the tube and brushstroked onto the canvas. Built layer on layer, the works draw the viewer into intricate, richly textured and expressive surfaces executed with such materials as hand-painted papers, acrylic paints and gels, and modeling paste which are carved and incised using tools and brushes. An avowed colorist, I draw in paint, vibrant or subdued, to create visceral and lyrical all-over compositions comprised of organic and biomorphic shapes. My paintings are best approached not in a search for their intended meaning, but with openness to the emotions they can stir.
exhibitions
2019
Spectrum Miami, Miami, FL, 2019
Cultural Complexity, Saphira Ventura Gallery, New York, NY October 2019
Art Comes Alive, Art Design Consultants, Cincinnati OH October 2019
Blink Art Show, Art Design Consultants, Cincinnati OH June 2019
Art Palm Beach, Palm Beach, FL, January 2019
2018
Scope, Art Basel, Miami Beach, FL December 2018
Embraer Jet Center, Melbourne, FL, 2018-19
Sweet Art Gallery, Naples, FL May 2018
Artexpo New York, New York, NY April 2018
2017
Spectrum Miami, Miami, FL, December 2017
Caza Sikes Gallery, Grand Opening Show, Cincinnati, OH, September 2017
Artblend Gallery, Ft. Lauderdale, FL, September 2017
Artexpo New York, New York, NY April 2017
2016
C-Link Gallery, Group Show, November 2016
Miller Gallery, Cincinnati, OH, August 2016
Spectrum Miami, Art Miami Art Fair, December 2016
Sweet Art Gallery, Naples, FL, 4 person show, November 2016
Art Comes Alive, Gallery Award, July 2016
Carnegie Arts Center, Covington KY, "Formal Function: Strategies of Abstraction," May 2016
Clifton Cultural Art Center, Annual Golden Ticket Show, 2011 - 2016
2014
Homearama Design House, Summer 2014
Cincinnati Opera, Garrett Gallery, solo show, Spring 2014
UC Medical Center, Paintings in Residence, 2013-2014
Gravity’s Daughters, Group Exhibition, Female Abstract Paintings, Woodburn Art District, Fall 2014
Art Comes Alive, Gallery Award, July 2014
2013
Passages Gallery, “Season’s Change: A Perspective in Time,” October 2013
Constella Festival, Cincinnati, OH, “Function/Disfunction,” October 2013
YWCA Women's Art Gallery, Cincinnati, OH 2 person show, Feb 2 - Apr 4 2013
2012
Visionaries & Voices, "Double Vision III," Group Exhibition, April 21, 2012
Miami University VOA Center, Group Exhibition, Nov 2011 - Feb 2012
2011
ArtWorks, Masterworks Show, Group Exhibition. September 2011
Miller Gallery, Cincinnati, OH, 2 person show, May 2011
2010
Miller Gallery, Cincinnati, OH "Hot, Hot, Hot Show", March 2010
2009
Miller Gallery, Cincinnati, OH, Holiday Show, November 2009
Miller Gallery, Cincinnati, OH, Solo Exhibition, June 2009
2007
Art Comes Alive, Art Design Consultants, April 2007
2005
Focus Gallery, Cincinnati OH, 2 person show, October 2005
Study
Boca Raton Museum of Art School, 2010 -2019
Manifest Studio, Figurative Drawing, 2011, 2012
Acrylic Study, Cincinnati, Merle Rosen, 2008
Powder Factory, Cincinnati, Greg Storer, 2007, 2008
Art Academy of Cincinnati, Oil Painting, 2005
Art in Provence, Deullifit, France April 2002
California College of Design, Newport Beach, CA 1988, 1989