Voyages

For the month of October, the Harrison Gallery is exhibiting Voyages by Emma Overman, a creative exploration of vibrant characters and stories and an enchanting voyage through the artist's mind. 

Emma Overman has been painting at the Harrison Center for well over a decade while also developing and displaying her distinctive style. Her detailed acrylic paintings commonly feature humans and animals with wide heads, almond-shaped eyes, and no mouths, giving her art a whimsical and otherworldly feel. 

In this show, Overman invites the viewer to journey with her to meet a lively cast of creatures and discover the unique stories they create. These paintings feature a wide array of characters, from a band of vegetable-stealing rabbits to a snake in a harlequin sweater and ruff, while the titles give a hint to the story within each painting. Her skilled use of light showcases these fantastical and mysterious creatures, with their bright color contrasted against dark woods, and brings warmth and vitality to her art. Overman's work also includes the unique vintage frames surrounding her paintings, as she handpicks and meticulously restores them, often repainting them to fit her art. She loves to work with vintage frames, she says, since they make the pieces feel like treasured memories. 

Overman's art immerses viewers in an alluring fairytale world of vibrant and whimsical characters. She describes her artistic life as a tree, with each idea branching out into another, like a tree limb leading to a tiny twig of a new idea that grows and grows. Overman says she often ends up far from where she started in her artistic journeys, and she invites you to be surprised and delighted as you join her on this enchanting adventure.

The show can be viewed anytime in the Harrison Gallery through the month of October: Monday – Friday from 9 a.m. - 5 p.m. The works can also be viewed and purchased on our online gallery through November.