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Hilary Harkness

Hilary Harkness (Born 1971) is active/lives in New York, Connecticut.  Hilary Harkness is known for Contemporary realism-narrative female issues.

A painter focused on women's issues conveyed by highly developed technical painting skills, Hilary Harkness has done a series about women living and working together on battleships and submarines---traditionally a male-dominated environment.  Her method is to group many scenes together in a manner both delineated and relational that allows the viewer to see directly into each interior while getting an overall impression of her themes, which include sex and power and tensions resulting from confined living.  Each section is highly detailed and realistic, and reflect the artists great interested in painting technique as well the complex world depicted in her subject matter.

Her work is provocative and controversial, and has been described as 'kinky', 'obsessive', 'perverse', and 'anti-female'.  Some persons accuse Harkness of being anti-feminist, but few have accused her of lacking originality.  Critic Jerry Saltz describes her style as "a ho   ...  [Displaying 1000 of 2780 characters.]  Artist bio

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