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BIBLIOGRAPHY	"W5: Toronto's Worst Landlord" on CTV, aired April 26th, 2008 [album cover] Kinski: 'Down Below it's Chaos'(2007) Sup Pop Records. "Cityline: Home Day" on CityTV, aired January 12, 2006 "First Place", House & Home, May 2005 Art World News, March 2005 Raw Vision Magazine, Garde-Rail Gallery, Winter/Spring 2005 Seattle Weekly, Garde-Rail Gallery, December 2004 Raw Vision Magazine, Yard Dog Gallery, Winter 2004 Canadian House & Home Magazine, October 2004 NPR Seattle: 94.9 KUOW, "The Beat" September 2004 The Nashville Scene, December 2003 The Nashville Rage, December 2003 Architectural Digest, Judith Racht Gallery, June 2003 Fast Forward, Canadian Art Magazine, KMART Projects, May 2003 [book cover] 'Insects' by Iain Deans, 2004, Fitzhenry & Whiteside Ltd. Lola Magazine, Shotgun Reviews, "Dovercourt & Africville" October 2002 Lola Magazine, Shotgun Reviews, "Houses" September 2001 The Herald-Palladium (Michigan), "Outsiders Outside" August 30th, 2001 Enroute Magazine, photo spread featuring "Houses" April 2001 Lola Magazine, Shotgun Reviews, "Land & Sea" October 2001 Eye Magazine, Review "Pissing in The Corners" April 2000 Eye Magazine, Review "Mixed Bag" November 1999
BLOG MENTIONS	Designer's Block February 2008 "Daylight in Painting" Take a close look at these paintings by Jennifer Harrison. See how by using raised paint effects and clever shadows she has created daylight in her work. It looks for all the world that they have been photographed in bright sunlight. Clever! Apartment Therapy February 2008 "What You Can See from Bed" When creating a relaxing, restful bedroom it's important to consider what exactly you can see from your bed. Does it allow you to relax, to daydream? Is there clutter? Is there a painting that you hate? "I see the side of a bookcase (looking to change that), a cool round mirror made from an antique metal mesh sifter and a great painting by Jennifer Harrison. The painting is the newest edition and it changes with the day's light - it's making me ridiculously happy. ~ posted by renee c.f. All Carbon February 2007 "My New Painting" The Outsider Art Fair has become an annual tradition for me. I love Outsider and Folk Art because it's art in its rawest form -- forms of expression by people that have had no formal training but yet feel compelled to express themselves creatively. (For more on Outsider Art: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Outsider_art.) Some years, I'll come across something that has my name written all over it. The previous year, it was a painting on war. This year, I picked up a small drawing by Alexandra Huber, but what spoke to me was a painting by Jennifer Harrison. more » posted on Pen in Hand January 2007 Yours is the second piece of art about houses that has really captured me. I saw a painting in a gallery in Austin by a painter named Jennifer Harrison that I really liked. Photos don't do the paintings justice which are of an interesting size and richly textured, but you can see them at http://www.yarddog.com/collection.php. The Stranger February 2006 "Mini Artwalk" by Jen Graves A bunch of good art shows opened last night. We're going to review Lauren Grossman at Howard House and Matt Sellars at Platform in next week's issue, so I won't go into those here. But there's also Keith Tilford at James Harris, Matisse and Louise Bourgeois at Greg Kucera, and Jennifer Harrison at Garde Rail Gallery. I'll start with Harrison, and since I didn't see that show yet, I can't say much, except that in reproduction, the paintings - all of houses crowded up against one another - look likable. Daily Dolan Geiman December 2006 "Community Buzz" Northern Houses at Yard Dog Gallery: See new works by Toronto artist Jennifer Harrison at her solo exhibition opening at Yard Dog (Austin) Saturday December 2. Husi (www.hulver.com) July 2005 "Toronto Outdoor Art Exhibition 2005" The Toronto Outdoor Art Exhibition is a yearly event I try to check out every year. I'm not sure how long it's been going on, but it's become quite a popular event. For a lot of artists who participate, these three days may be more lucrative than the rest of the year. Competition gets tougher every year though, so there's no guarantee an artist will get in, even if they're a regular. Pretty awesome weekend. Great weather and art. A few comments, links on some of the work that caught my eye at this year's show. Jennifer Harrison - thick, nearly sculptural paintings of row houses and buildings - almost like paintings made of cake icing. Can be rather hypnotic looking at a lot of her stuff all at once.
PRESS & PUBLISHED MATERIAL April 26th, 2008 CTV's W-FIVE : Toronto's Worst Landlord, part II	The Whole Picture "...Toronto Community Housing Corporation is Canada's biggest landlord and some say it's also the biggest slum owner. Some tenants of the approximately 60,000 units owned by the City of Toronto are complaining about crumbling walls, leaking roofs and cockroach infestations." (I think it's a bit big for where it's hanging, but I hope that painting over Mr. Ballantyne's shoulder helps to calm his nerves bit. ~ jh) Watch »
(released) Fall 2007 'Down Below it's Chaos' KINSKI Sup Pop Records Vinyl and compact disc. Four limited edition cover color variations were printed for pre-release orders.	Down Below It's Chaos - SP741 Down Below It's Chaos is Kinski's 3rd full-length for Sub Pop. With the notable inclusion of 3 songs with subdued yet urgent vocals courtesy of Chris Martin, the new record is a kaleidoscopic mix of Kinski's expansive, over-driven power and intricate beauty. With majestically fuzzed-out guitar tones, spare and pounding rhythms, and swirling sonic textures, Down Below It's Chaos sums up Kinski's past and propels them into the ozone. Reviews and MP3's »
September 2004 "KUOW Seattle, 'The Beat" art reviews by Gary Faigin"	At 2:30pm - Gary Faigin \| Art Reviews First Thursday in Pioneer Square this month marked the debut of the Toshiro Kaplan Building, a newly renovated warehouse that has already added energy to the downtown arts scene. This large, ambitious project includes artist live-work spaces, artists' studios and ground-floor storefronts reserved for art-related businesses. Four galleries have opened in the street-level spaces: three have chosen to move in elsewhere and one is making its debut. Gary Faigin recently visited this newly minted gallery row and brings us his review. Easily the most accessible gallery on the block is Garde-Rail Gallery, a folk art gallery moved here from Columbia City. I've never been quite clear on what qualifies art as folk, outsider or primitive, but the bright cheerful pieces here lining the walls have a charm that tends to make one forget about terms and classifications. Particularly attractive are the thick-as-custard oil-paintings of Toronto street-scapes by Jennifer Harrison.... (originally aired 09.24.04; segment begins at 33:33/59:58) Listen »
Fall 2004 [cover] 'Insects' by Iain Deans Published by Fitzhenry & Whiteside Ltd.	Focusing an eye to unexpected subjects and vivid, often startling settings - from Jerry Lee Lewis's charred piano, Newfoundland's Signal Hill, Paul Verlaine's bottled siblings to a void waiting at the end of the ocean - Iain Deans shows the virtuosity that makes him one of Canada's best and most intriguing young poets. In this, his debut collection, Deans moves through moments of deep love to more extreme scenes verging on sudden dark moments of inner conflict ... "I want to be a part / of a very dangerous machine," he writes in "Walking Along the Edge of Spring." While in "Flak" - "You know / last night the / radio / played a hundred love songs / not one was about / someone like you." At all levels, Deans' immediate, emotional poems bridge bright love, and shadowy tensions, beauty and excitement." Iain Deans was born in Montreal. He attended Queen's University and has lived in Toronto, Halifax and Montreal. His poetry has appeared in a number of publications including THIS Magazine, Prairie Fire, The New Quarterly, The Gaspereau Review, and the anthology New Canadian Poetry. He currently lives in Halifax. Publisher's website »
June 2003 by Margaret McCurry ~ Architectural Digest (page 56)	'Lakeside Attractions: Margaret McCurry Uncovers Hidden Gems in Michigan's Harbor Country' "... A mile and a half from Lakeside, in the town of Harbert, the Judith Racht Gallery occupies a former two-room schoolhouse. In the basement she shows quilts and old toys but she focuses on outsider and contemporary art, which is displayed on the main floor. "Outsider Art is made by people without formal training," Racht explains. One such artist is Canadian Jennifer Harrison. "She paints many images of houses, perhaps because at one time she was homeless," Racht says. Among her favourite artists is William Zuehlke, whose wire and enamel installation American Dream - The Series, 2002 consists of 221 almost identical houses hung on a wall."
May 2003 'Fast Forward' ~ Canadian Art Magazine (page 56)	'Jennifer Harrison's 'Towns' at Katharine Mulherin Contemporary Art Projects, June 6th - 29th 2003 Opening Reception: Friday, June 6th from 7-10pm This is a continuation of Jennifer's "house as icon" series. Jennifer uses houses the way other artists use the human figure; devoid of cars, trees and people, her houses and their colours become the only subject. In her latest work she attempts to paint as many houses on one canvas as possible and then determines the effect on the "personal space" and composition of the individual buildings.
August 2001 by Charles McKelvy, H-P Correspondent, Herald Palladiun	WORKS of self-taught painter of Toronto will be displayed during the Outsiders Outside Art Fair at the Judith Racht Gallery in Harbert this weekend. Looking in on the Outsiders; Racht Gallery fair highlights artists outside of the mainstream Folk art by visionary artists will be on display at the Outsiders Outside Art Fair this weekend at the Judith Racht Gallery in Harbert. Gallery owner Judith Racht said recently that she decided to keep the fair going the day after last year's Labor Day event ended. "I've really been working on it since last September, and people started calling me in April to ask when it would be this year so they could plan their vacations around it," she said, "so it's official - it's going to be right here and around the gallery with and opening night preview on Friday, Aug 31 and continuing the next two days." Racht, who launched the popular event seven years ago, said she is hoping for cool, dry weather this year. "No matter what weekend I've picked for the fair, it always seems to be hot and muggy, even last year wen we moved it to Labor Day weekend," she said, "But the weather doesn't seem to keep people away, and we'll be here with a wonderful assortment of outsider art and live entertainment by Garth Taylor and his Paten Medicine Jug Band no matter what the weather is." Artists will display work "outside the traditions of mainstream art" including 5' long paintings of freighters and container ships on plywood by self-taught artist Jennifer Harrison. This year's participating galleries include Harvey Art & Antiques of Evanston, Ill, Angela Usrey of Chattanooga, the Pardee Collection from Iowa and Tom D. from Grand Rapids. Admission is $5 and a portion of the admission will be donated to the Berrien County Cancer Foundation and the Stenn Fund for Ovarian Cancer. The Judith Racht Gallery is located just south of Red Arrow Highway at 13707 Prairie Road. For more information, call (616) 469-1080.
Summer 2001 Lola Magazine, 'Shotgun Reviews'
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