Cris Worley Fine Arts is proud to present Harry Geffert: Look Up There, an exhibition celebrating the legacy of our beloved friend and artist Harry Geffert (1934 – 2017). This commemorative exhibition, planned before Geffert’s passing, will feature his final works in bronze alongside pieces from his estate, spanning the last thirty years of his personal artistic career. Harry Geffert: Look Up There, will open on September 8th with an opening reception from 5 - 8pm and will be on view through October 6th.

Harry’s work in bronze captured the mystical spirit inherent in the alchemical history of metallurgy. Led by an obsession and reverence for the natural world, Harry expressed his intimate views of human beings’ relationship with the environment through an unmatched ability to replicate organic forms ranging from the human figure, root systems, flowers, animals, and even the surface of flowing water. Harry’s technical mastery allowed him to innovate with paper-casting and painting techniques that held viewers in awe for their delicately crafted details. His work evoked the surrealism of dreams and memory, as he wrote in 2016:

In my college years, I would go hiking in the Rockies early in the morning, and get to the meadows at the first light of day. I can close my eyes even today and still smell the air filled with the growth of those meadows. Much of my art has been about these little moments.

Critics have compared the surreal virtuoso quality of his works to the paintings of 15th-Century Netherlandish artist Hieronymus Bosch, and compared his nostalgia for regional landscapes to the works of 20th-Century American artist Thomas Hart Benton. Harry held a philosophy toward life and art that is best understood by the fact that his home and foundry, situated on 13 acres of open Texas country, were built entirely by his hand. The show is entitled after the last piece Geffert casted, a network of cream-white and gray-blue clouds charming above the viewer, “Look Up There.”