Mad Rose Gallery Hosts Exhibition Featuring Painter Harper Blanchet

The Mad Rose Gallery presents a show of the abstract paintings of Harper Blanchet. The show will run from Nov. 1–14 and will highlight Blanchet’s work over a 40-year period. There will be a festive celebration of the Blanchet show on Nov. 4.

Blanchet has been a committed artist since his first experience taking photographs at the age of 7 under the tutelage of his father. His “meditations through the lens” have informed his artistic vision, an aesthetic that prizes beauty above all; beauty as seen in nature, in the human form, in the play of light and shadow, in motion and stillness. 

The abstract paintings on display at the gallery are a contrast in styles. Blanchet’s "action" paintings are dynamic and positive expressions of his aesthetic; those of the "field" genre are more contemplative and restrained with an underlying strength. Both reveal an artist of skill and thoughtfulness whose craft, actual wizardry, has been refined by constant work married to reflection. This show will surprise and delight.