Emily Harter Joins HESSE FLATOW
Courtesy of artist and HESSE FLATOW
HESSE FLATOW, New York, announces the representation of San Francisco-based artist Emily Harter. In October, Harter will have her second solo exhibition with HESSE FLATOW, and will be featured in a solo booth at Minor Attractions art fair in London, UK.
Emily Harter (b. 1997) Winter, 2025 Gouache and pencil on prepared paper 23 1/2 x 32 inches 59 x 81 cm 32 1/2 x 41 inches (framed) 82 x 104 cm (framed)
“At HESSE FLATOW, we’ve made it our mission to stand behind artists early in their journeys and to nurture their long-term growth, ” says founder Karen Hesse Flatow. “Emily embodies the spirit of that commitment, and we are thrilled to accompany her as she enters this next chapter of her career. Her work not only draws upon centuries of painting history but also expands the possibilities of what the medium can be.
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Emily Harter (b.1997) Allegorical Figure of Winter, 2025 Oil on canvas 17 x 13 inches 43.18 x 33.02 cm
Working across painting, drawing, ceramics, and printmaking, Harter develops scenes where chaos and humor collide. Her work is inspired by Netherlandish genre painting, the satirical prints of Hogarth and Daumier, and the Golden Age of American cartoons. She creates narrative scenes packed with a shifting cast of caricaturized figures. These characters, each caught in their own actions and desires, embody tropes pulled from art history, literature, comic strips, and current crises.
Emily Harter (b. 1997) Fall, 2025 Gouache and pencil on prepared paper 23 1/2 x 32 inches 59 x 81 cm 32 1/2 x 41 inches (framed) 82 x 104 cm (framed)
This October, Harter's exhibition at HESSE FLATOW, titled Split the Rolling Year, will center on the four seasons as sites of collective affect and experience. The drawings on view will depict crowded scenes of catastrophe, floods, storms, fires, and melting ice, that speak to the anxieties of the changing seasons and the natural disasters that follow. In contrast, the paintings present solitary figures whose bodily states follow the framework of the Four Humors, aligning the cycles of weather with human moods, temperaments, and fluids. Together, the works explore how the rhythm of the seasons resonates with human experience, from collective upheaval to individual disposition.
About the Artist
Emily Harter received her BA from Oberlin College and her MFA in Art Practice from Stanford University. Her work has been exhibited throughout the United States, including solo exhibitions at HESSE FLATOW (New York), OCHI Projects OVR (Los Angeles) and Cleaner Gallery (Chicago). She was the recipient of the AAF/Seebacher Prize for the Fine Arts, The Headlands Graduate Fellowship, and the 2020 MAPC Travel Grant and has been a resident artist at The Lighthouse Works (Fishers Island, NY), Arts, Letters, and Numbers (Averill Park, NY), and After 1920 (San Diego). She is a co-founder of Pigeon Hole Press in Chicago, IL, which produces and publishes fine art intaglio prints.
For more information about this announcement and HESSE FLATOW, please visit their site here. The gallery can also be found on Instagram here. For more information about Emily Harter, their website can be found here, and they can also be found on Instagram.
