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Harris became interested in photography while documenting her large-scale installations that dealt with perceptive issues of artificial and natural light in space. For Harris, the photographs quickly became a vehicle for capturing “fleeting moments of natural as well as artificial light and color” that depicted her concerns with viewer perception and orientation. About these new works, Franklin Sirmans writes, “While the emphasis on light and its ability to trigger emotion and mood are at the core of her endeavor, Harris’ perception-altering installation work forced us to reconsider our bodies in space and within ‘the hidden structures of art.’ Continuing the focus on our perceptions, desires and curiosities for the world around us, Harris’ newest work, while becoming more representational in their rendering of the phenomenological aspects of light and space, is also perhaps her most direct route to explore her essential interests. In these new photographs, light is no longer abstracted to a minimalist mass but drawn out in a way that provides the viewer with a direct gaze into a compositional space full of wonder and unspoken narratives.” A native of Los Angeles, Harris has been living and working in New
York City since 1998. She has exhibited her art widely; recently her
photographs were included in Light and Atmosphere at the Miami Art Museum,
and in exhibitions at the Studio Museum in Harlem, the California African
American Museum, and the Center for Experimental and Perceptual Art
in Buffalo, NY. Harris received an MFA from the California Institute
of the Arts, and completed the Whitney Museum Independent Study Program
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