Lot 4

Michael Harrington applies his representational craft to a broad range of subject matter inspired by cinema, theatre, literature, music, family folklore, and personal memory. His narratives provide comment on issues of mortality, status, work stress, virility, and esteem. Viewers may regard these images of anonymous figures with suspicion, or they may also see depictions of ambiguous rituals.

Harrington is a graduate of the Ontario College of Art & Design. He has exhibited extensively across North America, including the Glenbow Museum, the Ottawa Art Gallery, SAW, and the Carleton University Art Gallery. His work has been presented in Border Crossings Magazine, Canadian Art, Harper’s Magazine and Contemporary Visual Art Magazine. He is represented in numerous public, corporate and private collections including the Glenbow Museum in Calgary and the Agnes Etherington Centre in Kingston, as well as the personal collections of filmmakers Atom Egoyan and Jeremy Podeswa.