Upcoming: Mark Harrington "Old and new dreams" | 15.3.-18.4.2026 | Opening Reception March 15, 11am-4pm

The installation by Mark Harrington at augsburg contemporary is an opportunity to present a conversation between large-scale paintings made in Norway and Germany during the past thirty years. Below you will find more images from the American artist's 30-year creative period.

A recurring strategy of Mark Harrington´s work is the use of diptychs, also multi-panel polyptych structures, which employ asymmetry and contrast in pursuit of unity. Paintings of the Nineties, made with oil on gesso, were scored with a multitude of narrow lines, markings that were physically embedded in the wet rapidly-applied gesso. When dry, the engraved gesso was flooded with mixtures of high-density pigment and oil, deepening a tonal contrast between upper and lower areas of the grooved plane. The gesso paintings are monochromatic, varying in saturation. Drying time imposed limits on drawing into the wet surface, with self-made tools, an approach, and pressure-element, in building the ground that has persisted until the present. Harrington´s decision in 2000 to adopt acrylic materials initiated other dynamics between drawing and the field of the painting. The structure of drawing within a more open surface area, and the eventual introduction of lines as multi-tonal veins of color, increased the options of a language of linearity in pictorial space.

Exhibitions 2026: -17.1.  Das gelbe Zelt | 25.1.-7.3. Inge Gutbrod | 15.3.-18.4. Mark Harrington | 26.4.-30.5. Esther Zahel  | 7.6.-11.7. Barbara Herold  / Florian Huth | 27.9.-31.10. Tina Haase | 28.11.-19.12. Domestic Space / XMAS Edition