Hillary Harkness. Microcosmos

Conocida por sus pinturas de corte transversal, la obra de Hillary Harkness destaca por sus microcosmos interiores detallistas y elaborados, habitados exclusivamente por mujeres en una fantastica celebración de la feminidad.

Red Sky in the Morning.

The Yamato heads toward Okinawa on a suicide mission with not enough fuel to return home. 

The doomed sailors enact their last wishes

Red Sky in the Morning. Detail

Red Sky in the Morning. Detai

Nervous in the Service

Sinking the Bismarck 

Sinking the Bismarck. Detail

Sinking the Bismarck. Detail

Rearguard Action!

Pearl Trader. The Radio City Rockettes have their DNA auctioned at Christie's.

Pearl Trader. Kitchens. Marginalia: a doughnut shop run by the Japanese cartoon character Kogepan (burnt bread).

Pearl Trader. Science. The showroom, basement storage, and the fetus processing area.

Hillary Harkness
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Hilary Harkness, who exhibits with the Mary Boone Gallery in New York City, is a Phi Beta Kappa graduate of the University of California-Berkeley (where she studied biochemistry and art) and holds a Master of Fine Arts from the Yale University School of Art. A former professional violinist, she honed her unique artistic worldview while living in San Francisco, and now lives and works in Brooklyn. Her work has been exhibited worldwide, including the Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid, Spain, and the Deste Foundation in Athens, Greece and is in the collection of the Whitney Museum. Harkness has been featured in publications including the New York Times, The New Yorker, Interview magazine, and Esquire. She has taught painting and sculpture as Artist in Residence at Yale Summer School of Art and Music, and lectured widely at institutions such as Columbia University, Boston University, Yale University, Brandeis University, and the Baltimore Museum of Art. Hilary also blogs for the Huffington Post and the New York Academy of Art.