Timothy Harney

Timothy Harney’s emotionally powerful figurative paintings possess a remarkable formal excellence which propels them beyond the particulars of the scene into the universal, where they model and draw forth viewers’ emotions and experiences.

Harney’s subjects are personal (self and family), biographical (often other artists), and invented strangers.

He also paints (or draws, or collages) landscapes and exquisite abstracts following the same formal principles, but without human figures.

All his work possesses carefully balanced and directed colors and forms which fill the canvas or paper to the edge.

Harney attended UMass Amherst and since the mid-1980s has taught painting and drawing at New England colleges and universities. Since 2001 he has been an Associate Professor at Montserrat College of Art in Beverly MA.