Minor Attractions: Emily Harter

HESSE FLATOW is pleased to participate in this year's iteration of Minor Attractions in London with a solo booth of drawings by Bay Area artist Emily Harter. This marks the gallery's first international art fair participation.

Emily Harter (b. 1997, Baltimore MD) adopts the visual languages of Dutch Genre Painting and the golden age of American cartooning to investigate contemporary attitudes and concerns through the lens of history, allegory, and humor. While Harter’s paintings offer larger scenes that encompass small narrative vignettes, her works on paper allude to her process of collecting, sorting, and refiguring images. Harter follows pathways in her mind which tumble and lead her from one reference, one thought, one text, one image, one song to the next. Harter describes this process as not meditative but rather an act of processing. Through considering what links all of these datapoints, Harter makes discoveries and finds parallels that may not have been considered before. In Harter's own words "Why do these pictures rhyme? I hold onto them so I might figure it out later, when I draw to consider the question in gesture and line."1

1 Harter, Emily "I know it when I see it" (2025), MFA Thesis, Stanford University, p. 8   

The Mandrake Hotel

20-21 Newman St, London W1T 1PG, United Kingdom

VIP Preview (Invitation Only)

Tuesday, October 14: 12-8 pm

General Admission

Tuesday, October 14: Opening Night Party | 9-11 pm 

Wednesday, October 15: 12-8 pm

Thursday, October 16: 12-8 pm

Friday, October 17: 12-8 pm

Saturday, October 18: 12-6 pm