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Artist Statement:
My work always has been a
personal explorations of human
emotions. I do not paint
portraits of women, I paint
the concept of a woman. Using
the female figure as a
vehicle, I attempt to capture
an emotional moment in time,
for women are the architects
of our civilization.
I ...
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Artist Exhibitions:
RECENT SELECTED SOLO &
2-PERSON(*) SHOWS
Garden Gallery. Palm Beach
Gardens, Fl, 2005
Safety Harbor City Hall,
Safety Harbor, FL 2005
Confidant Gallery, St.
Petersburg, FL, 2003
Avalon Island Gallery,
Orlando, FL, 2002(*)
Mahaffey Theatre, St.
Petersburg, Fl, 2000
Synthesis Fine Arts, Tampa,
FL, 1999
RECENT JURIED & INVITATIONAL*
SHOWS
Ninth ...
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Artist Galleries:
Rosetta Stone Fine Art, Juno
Beach, Fl
rosettastonefineart.com
Weyrich Gallery, Albuquerque,
NM
(my note cards only)
fineartamerica.com (prints)
artsites.org/casgohart
artofimagination.org (London)
Babelearte.net(Italy)
artbeyondborders.org
(Australia)
womenarts.org
arcyarts.com/ia-gordonharris.ht
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artistregister.com
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Collections:
SELECTED PRIVATE COLLECTIONS:
Anne Sanan, Clearwater, Fl
Patricia de Reyes, Ecuador
Susana Acevedo de Ornate,
Ecuador
Mr.& Mrs. Ray Snyder,Texas
Herb & Kay Lackshin, Texas
Beverly & Ira Mitlin, Florida
Dr.& Mrs. Sidney Feinberg,
Florida
Judy & Roy Stampfle, Florida
Joan Walker, Esq., Florida
John & Chrissy Hall,
California
Bud & Fran Risner, Florida
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Commissions:
-John M. Sexton Elementary
School, Florida Landcapes &
ponds, 21'x9' and 15'x9', St
Petersburg, Fl 2007
-74th St Elementary School,
Rainforest Mural, 12'x40',St
Petersburg, Fl,2005
-Mrs. Anne Sanan, Clearwater,
Fl, exterior mural 40 ft x 9
ft. (French garden wall),2003
-Free Clinic of St.
Petersburg...
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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:
Rincón Studios – Edgewood NM
Sept,2007
57 artists will be showing 65 works at the Invitational Exhibit “Personal Landscapes” at the Longview Museum of Fine Art in Longview Texas.
Cassandra Gorodn-Harris is one of only 8 artist chosen to exhibt two works: "Anticipated Vision" and "Gathering Storm".
The Museum is located at 215 East Tyler Street in Longview Texas. The exhibit will run September through October 24, 2007.
Opening Reception Saturday, September 15, 2007, 7-9 PM
For more information, contact the Museum at 903/753-8103
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:
ST PETERSBURG, FL
April 25, 2007
Cassandra Gordon-Harris’ work “Houses will be part of a juried exhibit highlighting the best of the National Association of Women Artists contemporary work. The “Made in the U.S.A.” exhibit will be held at the Blue Hill Cultural Center in Pearl River, located at One Blue Hill Plaza, Pearl River, New York 10965. Carolyn deLisser, International Art Appraiser and Consultant, has personally curated this event and chosen the individual pieces from a pool of entries.
The exhibit will run:
June 8 – November 30, 2007.
Opening Reception Thursday, June 14, 5:30-7:30 p.m.
For further information, contact the Cultural Center at 845/359-1584
Art Lines/Bayside News, St Petersburg, FL, Sept 2006
Boo Ehsram, Critic
The September/October issue of ACCENT ON TAMPA BAY features a spotlight on St. Petersburg artist Cassandra Gordon-Harris. With an artistic career spanning two decades, an inner belief in the power of women and bold colors, her work explores human emotions with the female figure as a sort of Everywoman. Cassandra’s work has won a awards and critical acclaim. Pinellas County is privileged to have such a talented artist in its midst.
Originally appeared on Daytona Beach News-Journal Online at
http://www.news-journalonline.com/NewsJournalOnline/Entertainment/Arts/entART03070706
July 07, 2006
Varied Voices at Arts on Douglas
By LAURA STEWART
Fine Arts Writer
NEW SMYRNA BEACH -- Like its matter-of-fact title, the new exhibit at Arts on Douglas simply sets out a sampling of works by Florida Artist Group (F.L.A.G.) Area VI.
.......And in the group's showstopper, Cassandra Gordon-Harris's "Beach Petals," the tension between a romantic naturalism and pure abstraction takes the breath away. In the large oil, a dream-like figure occupies the right side of an otherworldly beach scene. Her hair is a blazing red, set dramatically against the orange band of the beach, a narrow blue bar that defines the sea, and the white-hot sky.
She appears to be tossing flower petals on the sand, or perhaps to be caught up in a flurry of petals as if at a beach wedding -- or the memory of one. The sleek stylization of her features transforms her into the concept of a red-headed woman than the portrait of one. The distinction is crucial. Whatever the work's story line, what counts in the artist's superb use of her medium, and the reduction of form to the basics.
The figure in "Beach Petals" seems removed from the world around us, dried and pressed in a psychic album for safekeeping. Gordon-Harris' brushwork is so dense, her oils so opaque and matte that they beg to be touched, stroked, experienced. Formal, terse and exquisitely refined, "Beach Petals" is a stark statement that cuts through the emotions to express itself in purely painterly terms: rich, and powerful.-
June 3, 2006
Dr. Nicole Crane, Ph.D
Assoc. Curator Scholastic Art
Ringling Museum, Sarasota, FL
'"I selected Cassadnra Gordon-Harris work "Summer Dance" for the Best of Show award not only becasue of the perfection of balance in composition,use of light and color and of course the subject matter; but more importantly there is an overall feeling of softness and an underlying feeling of strong emotion, that is quite powerfull and exciting."'All Childrens Hospital Gala Live Auction Fund Raiser, Vinoy Hotel & Resort, St. Petersburg, FL
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: St. Petersburg, FL, April, 2006
Cassadnra's work "Summer Days" will be part of a special juried exhibition by the National Association of Women Artists, Florida Chapter. This exhibit hosted by the Armory Arts Center in West Palm Beach will feature some of best the State has to offer. Show runs through May 13th with the opening reception on April 27th.
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE, SUMMER, 2005, St. Petersburg, FL
What more could any artist ask for than to part of 5 different shows in a short period of time! If you are on the East Coast this summer and fall come by and see the new works.
Solo Shows:
-July 20-Aug 16 – Art in Public Places Project Featured Artist: City of Safety Harbor City Hall, downtown Safety Harbor
-August 25-October 30th One Woman show “Between Earth and Sky” Garden Gallery, sponsored by the City of Palm Beach Gardens, Palm Beach Gardens, Fl This show will feature nearly 40 paintings and drawings, including the new work featured above. City Hall: 10500 Military Trail, Palm Beach Gardens
Group Shows:
-June 3-27th – group show, FLAG (Florida Arts Group annual exhibit) Florida Gulf Coast University Art Complex Gallery, 10501 FGCU Blvd., Ft. Myers, Fl
-June 28- Opening reception- FLAG juried group show (only 30 members chosen by the museum) Boca Raton Museum of Fine Art. Show will continue to the end of August. 501 Plaza Real, Mizner Park, Boca Raton, Fl
-August 18th- October 28th- NAWA (National Association of Women Artists annual juried exhibit) Cornell Museum of Art, Delray Beach, FL
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:ST. PETERBURG, FLORIDA
Cassandra Gordon-Harris' work "Summer Peas" took "1st Place" at the invitational exhibit of the National Association of Women Artists at the Jeanette Haire Gallery of Northwood University in West Palm Beach, Florida. This exhibit continues through March 13,2005
Prize reward was a one-woman show at the Palm Beach Gardens City Hall August 25-October 12, 2005. This upcoming show will feature 30 of Cassandra's paintings of women, abstract landscapes and drawings.
Summer,2004: www.mispoesias.com Magazine
South Florida Edition
Cassadnra Gordon-Harris creates a softness that suggests the Impressionism of Mary Cassatt but instead of the rosy-cheeked children and soft maternal women we expect from Cassatt, Gordon-Harris provides a vision of tall, statuesque females. In her 2004 work "Anticipated Vision". three women with long white backless gowns appear to glide away from the viewer. They are women who carry with them their feeings, complex and unworked out, females who can not fail to intrigue and provoke. The women transport us with them in their journey.
For Immediate Release,March,2004
Cassandra Gordon-Harris takes 1st Place in a juried exhibition of the Florida Chapter of the National Association of Women Artists. The exhibt titled "She" was sponsored by Northern Trust Bank in Adventura, Florida, in honor of Women in History month.
The New St. Pete News, June, 2003
Local Artist off to London: St Petersburg artist Cassandra Gordon-Harris is off to London, Her work titled “The Empress” has been accepted into a gallery exhibition July 7-13 in London, England. The annual juried show for the Society for Art of Imagination, London, will be held at the Gallery in Cork Street. Following the London exhibit, with the sponsorship of the Baron of Fullwood, the entire show will move to Kirkcudbright, Scotland in August, then to The Williamsburg Art & Hisotrcal Museum in New York in September and finally to the Diego Victorio Gallery in Miami in November.
For immediate release:
January,2003- St. Petersburg, Florida
Local artist Cassandra Gordon-Harris has made her mark. Her biography will be listed in the Marquis Who's Who of American Women, 23rd Edition, 2002-2003. Cassandra's biography was selected for her work as curator and educator.
St. Petersburg Times
Lennie Bennett, Art Critic
"Urban Legends, Bucolic Dreams" Hough Gallery, St. Petersburg, FL
.....The John Brown Memorial Award for Painting was awarded to well known artist Cassandra Gordon-Harris for her piece "Unrban Anticipation". Earlier this year Cassandra also won 1st Place for her work "Dragon Flower" at the regional Womens Caucus for Art exhibit in Winter Park, Fl.(07/2002)
Weekly Planet
Best of the Bay Awards 2001
VISUAL ARTS
BEST BOOSTERS OF FEMALE ARTISTS
Cassandra Gordon-Harris/Marilyn Armstrong
The Galleries at Salt Creek and the Marly Group of the St. Petersburg Museum of Fine Arts recently celebrated the 2nd Annual Fairly Lilith Celebration of Women in the Arts, which was open to women over 18. The brainchild of artist Cassandra Gordon-Harris, she and Marly prez Marilyn Armstrong helped organize and curate this collaborative juried competition for visual and performing artists, poets, songwriters, storytellers, classical and modern musicians, and dancers. Visual arts media included watercolor, fiber, metal etching, sculpture and photography. From more than 300 Florida artists, 85 visual and performing artists were selected and $1,500 in prizes awarded. The Museum hosted the performing artists presentation. The visual artist component was exhibited at the Galleries at Salt Creek where 400-plus attended the awards ceremony. WP salutes Gordon-Harris and Armstrong for their inspiration and commitment to women in all areas of the arts.
Arts Center Instructor Honored
St. Petersburg artist and Arts Center instructor Cassandra Gordon-Harris is one of 50 women chosen worldwide to particpate in an international juried art exhibition in Piacenza, Italy, September 8th through September 22, 2001. The exhibition, "Pulcheria Arte 2001" invited more than 200 women to participate in the jurying. Ten finalists were selected from the United States.
Pulcheria Arte 2001 maintains a website at www.babelearte.net/ where the works submitted for the exhibition may be viewed.
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