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June 26 - October 11, 2024

Harriet Bart is a conceptual artist whose mixed-media works explore themes of remembrance, ritual, mysticism, trauma, and histories. The selection of works on view evoke the expression of memory, both personal and collective, through poetic artist books and sculptural forms. Here, memories are preciously offered, absent, or dissected in fractured, regimented, and even threatening ways. They speak to peaceful moments and, alternately, to the trauma of war and displacement. Aesthetically quiet and reserved, Bart’s artworks embody the power and strength of a recorded moment and the fragility of time.

Harriet Bart: The Art of Memory was organized by Dr. Jamie Ratliff, Associate Professor, Art History, University of Minnesota Duluth, in collaboration with the artist.