Harrison Love
A graduate of The Rhode Island School of Design, Harrison Love is a painter, author, and illustrator. An American artist born in New York growing up in Brussels Belgium, Harrison started his arts education early in European schools and under the tutelage of his artistic family.
As a young adult having lived and worked in places as diverse as New York, Tokyo, Shanghai, Singapore, Peru, Colombia, San Francisco, and Los Angeles, the nomadic life and influences of Harrison Love are not neatly catologable.
The style of Harrison’s abstract work is derived from the art of calligraphy in combination with the modern stylings of contemporary American Graffiti. Drawing his inspiration from patterns in nature as well as scientific theories about the nature of memory formation and relationships between visual information and audible input.
Harrison has created murals for Google, The City of Detroit, and for The Scholastic Art and Writing Awards. His work has been shown around the world and is a part of the artists collection of the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art.
Harrison Love relocated to Los Angeles in 2017 from San Francisco, where he was the curator for the SUB-liminal and Big Umbrella Studios with successful collaborations with SOMArts, the San Francisco Art Commission, and others.
In February 2019 Harrison returned to San Francisco to paint “The Mural Of Possible Futures” adjacent to the famous Mission Dolores Park.
In 2021 Harrison Love’s illustrated novel, “The Hidden Way,” was published and has received acclaim from known writers and critics. The illustrated novel explores the amazing and boundless universe of Amazonian Myths and Folklore. All of the research for the book was derived from his first hand expeditions into the Amazon from 2008-2010. “The Hidden Way,” is available on Barnes & Noble-
https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/the-hidden-way-harrison-macdonald-love/1140913984
Harrison Love was a recipient of the Gold Key and American Visions Award at The Scholastic Art and Writing Awards and The Charlotte Fuller Eastman Grant.
Websites:
harrisonlove.com - brightfuturism.com
Recent Podcast Interview with Harrison Love
https://open.spotify.com/episode/0g8XPfFX2kNCrBO1wujkuA
