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Red Letter Days • Paintings by Nashville Artist Harry Underwood
January 11 - [EXTENDED] through March 30, 2019
DIFFERENT TRAINS GALLERY 1 - Old Depot District • 432 East Howard Avenue no. 24, Decatur, Georgia
Thursday - Saturday, 11 am - 5 pm + by appointment & chance anytime (call ahead: 404.939.2787)

Red-Letter Days by Nashville artist Harry Underwood, Jan 11 - March 30, 2019 at Different Trains Gallery in Atlanta
​DIFFERENT TRAINS GALLERY, 432 East Howard Avenue no. 24, presents Red-Letter Days, paintings by Nashville artist Harry Underwood, opening Friday, January 11 and continuing through March 2, 2019. This is the first solo exhibition in Georgia for this contemporary outsider  artist who started making art full-time at the age of 35.

Harry Underwood was born in Miami, Florida and raised in the nearby rural farming area of Homestead. Displaced by Hurricane Andrew in 1992, he moved to New Orleans and Austin, Texas before settling in Nashville. He worked in the construction industry until 2005, when he made the decision to pursue art full-time. He has exhibited around the US, England and France, and his work has been featured at the Outsider Art Fair in New York City for the past ten consecutive years.

Nashville Arts Magazine described Underwood’s work as “a cocktail of realism, surrealism, and pop, of Edward Hopper meets Salvador Dali meets Andy Warhol”.  “I know my work is nostalgic”, he says in an interview with the magazine, “but I think I’m looking at it more like I’m imitating advertising, really, and I’m imitating postcard imagery. I’m more of a pop artist.” He uses a soft palette of latex house paint, pencils and varnish on wood panels to create his retro dreamscapes. The colors and compositions  draw you in and upon further examination, you read his hand written texts, which can be humorous, ironic or subversive.

Harry’s work might remind many viewers, especially here in the South, of the late Reverend Howard Finster (1916-2001) at first glance, but it’s more derivative of Henry Darger (1892-1973), the Chicago artist and writer who worked as a hospital custodian and is now considered to be one of the major figures in Outsider Art.

Red-Letter Days opens at DIFFERENT TRAINS GALLERY, in Decatur’s Old Depot District, on Friday, December 11. There will be a reception for the artist from 5 - 8 pm and an artist talk will be scheduled before the show closes on March 2. 

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  • Shop
  • artists
  • exhibitions & events
    • Harry Underwood: Outdoor Worship
    • RUTH FRANKLIN: Old and New Dreams
    • Coalescence: SCAD Class of 2022 Senior Exhibition
    • Littles
    • Time Frames: Photography by Jim Alexander and Carlos York >
      • Artist Talk with Jim Alexander and Carlos York
    • Here and Now
    • 3 Southern Artists featuring Harry Underwood
    • 5 ATL Artists Pop Up Show at The WADDI
    • Social Distance Gallery ATL
    • missive - UNG Faculty Show
    • Wood at The Waddi
    • Artist Xie Caomin at Different Trains Gallery 2 at Cornerstone Bank of Decatur
    • Pop-Up Show at 378 featuring The Real Frank Tee and Kim Cresswell
    • Luzene Hill - Now that the Gates of Hell are Closed... >
      • Luzene Hill artist talk
    • Around the Wheel - Color Wheel Teachers Show
    • Best of Atlanta 2019
    • Yehimi Cambrón Pop-Up Show
    • Summer Show 2019
    • Academe of the Oaks Student Exhibition
    • Remembering Marvin Rhodes
    • 378 Clifton Road Pop-Up May 2 2019
    • Ruth Franklin - Only When I Laugh
    • Perspectives: WCAGA Group Exhibit
    • Harry Underwood Red Letter Days >
      • a conversation with artist Harry Underwood
    • The Gallery: Natalie Twigg and Todd Alexander >
      • A Conversation with Natalie Twigg
    • Eben Dunn: Amplification and De-amplification >
      • A Conversation with Atlanta Artists Eben Dunn & Jim Johnson
    • Decaturscapes
    • M.C. Escher +
    • Math + Art
    • Cisco Kid vs Donald Trump >
      • Artist Talk & Tea with Kosmo Vinyl
    • Bank SEE 2.0
    • Through a Glass Darkly
    • Bank SEE
    • Grand Opening and Inaugural Exhibition
  • Waddi ATL
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  • Kosmo's Vinyl of the Week
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