Press Releases

April 22, 2004

Art Critic Helen Harrison Speaks on the Works of Abstract Expressionist Herman Cherry at Southampton College's Avram Gallery

Contact:
Patricia Conway
631-287-8313

Southampton, NY -Art critic Helen Harrison and Regina Cherry stand in front of one of the late artist Herman Cherry's paintings at a reception in the artist's honor this past week in Southampton College's Avram Gallery. Herman Cherry's paintings are on view in the Gallery until April 30.

Harrison, who once described Herman Cherry as a "painter's painter," is the director of the Pollock-Krasner House and Study Center in East Hampton and an art reviewer and feature writer for the Long Island section of the New York Times. She has organized several exhibitions, one of which featured Cherry's work: "Paintings on Paper, Martha's Vineyard, 1956" for the Pollock-Krasner House in 2002.

Cherry who passed away in 1992 at the age of 83, was active on the national art scene for more than sixty years. A contemporary of the vanguard Abstract Expressionists, including Jackson Pollock, Willem deKooning and Franz Kline, he has emerged as one of the most gifted colorists whose complex repertoire includes a synthesis of line and tone, and form and gesture, which are evident in the later works selected by Regina Cherry for the current show at Avram.

For more information, call gallery director Beth Giles at (631)287-8234.