The work of William Charles Harrington will be on view in “The Maker,” an exhibition opening at Keyes Art Gallery with a reception from 4 to 8 p.m. on Friday, June 4. The work will remain on view through July 10.
Harrington, who died in July 2020, was an American painter, sculptor and collage artist whose
muscular, potent and often soaring work embodies the myriad contradictions, ironies and perennial hopefulness of life in the modern world.
A Vietnam-era army veteran having served in the renown Combat Artist Team, Harrington witnessed first-hand the horror and tragedy of war, and upon his return as a young man to the United States dedicated his life to challenging and illuminating the raw pursuit of political power and money through his art.
Using structures of wood, iron steel and found objects, Harrington’s sometimes massive sculptures elicit the skeletons of gigantic unknown beasts or winged seraphim that capture a sense of awe and uneasiness and a strictly American quality of wildness and unpredictability.

William Harrington, WARP assemblage ca. 2000