Rich Harrington
Reviews | Press
"...the tone is not overtly critical, nor nostalgic, but searching. It is kitschy and ironic in the pop-art tradition, but Rich is building with his art not an exposé, but a mirror. His art glares outward upon society in order to look back inward at the artist..."
– Ilana Lipowicz
http://www.carouselrag.com/single-post/2016/06/02/RICH-HARRINGTON-AUTOBIOGRAPHY-IN-FOUND-IMAGE
"This is the way we llay and learn." is an exhibit of works by artist Rich Harrington at theAnthony Brunelli Fine Arts Gallery on State Street in Binghamton. He uses images from reading textbooks from the 50s and 60s. He uses these evocative images with humor to make a more serious point about that era.
http://wskg.org/arts/an-artist-looks-at-how-we-learn-and-what-we-learn/
Anthony Brunelli Fine Arts is pleased to present our first solo exhibition with artist, Rich Harrington. This exhibit will be up through June 25th, 2016 and an opportunity to meet and connect with the artist will be during both May and June's First Friday Gallery Walks.
https://bingpop.com/event/art/exhibition-rich-harrington-way-we-play-and-learn
“I do think my work is about trying to find a place in the world and connect with people," he said. "To find a stronger realization of the things we have in common. Being an artist is in my DNA; I really can’t imagine doing anything else.”
Rebecca Rafferty
“Yes homo”, Rochester City Newspaper, ART REVIEW: ImageArt, October 14, 2009
Alex Miokovic with Heidi Nickisher
“We’re not quite in Arcadia anymore”, Rochester City Newspaper/Arts,
October 6, 2004
John Dorsey “At School 33; forcing viewers to confront issues of race”; The Baltimore Morning Sun, June 11, 1993 - page 21
Robert F. Kirsch
"Look-Say" Opalka Gallery exhibition catalog
"...his touch isn't violent or snide – it's passionate, even intimate, like he's gotten inside of something and he's pushing it open, fighting his way out. With passion, with anger...but also with humor, and even love. An ambivalent, conflicted, intense love, one flickering close to hate. And it's frightening because it's not something foreign or faraway – it's something unseen deep down inside everything, especially ourselves."