Gregg Lannanen - Opening the Mountain

Harris Harvey Gallery is pleased to present “Opening the Mountain,” new paintings by Pacific Northwest artist Gregg Laananen. The work encapsulates a record of a soul's journey through a year of personal loss and grief. The images are not specifically about grieving, yet they are unified by the sensibilities of this emotional state. “Opening the Mountain,” refers to the richness, abundance, and creative perspective during this reflective time.

Laananen’s imagery is conceived through drawing, with tensions between form, line and mark-making, guided by his observations of the natural world. The artist shares, “My process is achieved with the palette knife or brush or other instrument such as a stick. I suppose this is not unlike drawing in that one begins with a blank space and must grow something in that space, even a few lines or shapes.”

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