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Harry Gould Harvey IV

Post-Fair

Booth 15

February 20 - 22, 2025

P·P·O·W is pleased to present a series of new large-scale works by Harry Gould Harvey IV at the inaugural edition of Post-Fair. Born and raised in the post-industrial city of Fall River, MA, where he resides to this day, Harvey draws inspiration from the ecological fabric of the South Coast Region to deconstruct the building blocks of empire and illuminate the weight of anonymous labor. Foraging materials from downed or cut trees, destroyed Gilded Age mansions, dilapidated factories, and gutted Gothic churches, Harvey situates his highly detailed works on paper inside ornamented, hand-built wood frames akin to reliquaries. For Post-Fair 2025, these four new works represent a journey of personal transformation through cybernetic diagrams that incorporate histories of mysticism and technological innovation.

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Harry Gould Harvey IV
Fools Rush In Where Angels Fear To Tread, 2025
Charcoal, colored pencil, xerox transfer, on matte board, Black Walnut from the Delano Saw Mill, American Hollywood & .999 Pure Silver
40 x 32 ins.

Consistently questioning assumptions relating to the organization and dissemination of information, Harvey manifests a speculative system of image-based metamorphosis through exchange, diffusion, and deconstruction. In Fools Rush In Where Angels Fear to Tread, 2025, he layers motifs from Duchampian chess theory, Wallace Berman’s xeroxed image transfers, and GAN-generated imagery, to Shaker “Spirit Drawings,” the collaborative writings of Gregory Bateson and Mary Catherine Bateson, and his own iconography of lions, shrouded mourners, and cherubs. Taking cues from the closed-loop system of cybernetics, these new works adeptly synthesize varied industrial, spiritual, and scientific histories to confront the Odyssian struggles of daily life.

Harry Gould Harvey IV (b. 1991) lives and works in Fall River, MA. Harvey’s recent solo and two-person exhibitions include Sick Metal, P·P·O·W, New York, NY; LEVEL LEVEL, Cordova, Barcelona, Spain; List Projects 29: Brittni Ann Harvey and Harry Gould Harvey IV, MIT List Visual Arts Center, Cambridge, MA;  An Anathema Strikes the Flesh of the Laboror, Hessel Museum of Art, Bard College, Annandale on the Hudson, NY; and Arrows of Desire, with Faith Wilding, David Winton Bell Gallery, Brown University, Providence, RI; among others. He participated in the 2021 New Museum Triennial, Soft Water Hard Stone, as well as the 2022 group exhibition Door to the Atmosphere at the Frye Art Museum, Seattle, WA, from which a work was acquired for the museum’s permanent collection. Additionally, his works belong to the collections of KADIST, San Francisco, CA and Paris, France, as well as the RISD Museum, Providence, RI. Harvey is the founder of the curatorial project Pretty Days and co-founder of the Fall River Museum of Contemporary Art, Fall River, MA. Harvey was recently featured in Nostalgic Mayfly, a group exhibition presented by StillShow by Stilllife at the Rockbund Compound in Shanghai, China.

Exhibited Works

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Harry Gould Harvey IV, 777 E’Art’hly Dimensions ( Burnt Offering ), 2025, Charcoal, colored pencil, xerox transfer, on matte board, Black Walnut from the Delano Saw Mill, American Hollywood & .999 Pure Silver, 40 x 32 ins.

Harry Gould Harvey IV, 777 E’Art’hly Dimensions ( Burnt Offering ), 2025, Charcoal, colored pencil, xerox transfer, on matte board, Black Walnut from the Delano Saw Mill, American Hollywood & .999 Pure Silver, 40 x 32 ins.

Harry Gould Harvey IV, Cybernetic Soul in Orbit, 2025, Charcoal, colored pencil, xerox transfer, on matte board, Black Walnut from the Delano Saw Mill, American Hollywood & .999 Pure Silver, 40 x 32 ins.

Harry Gould Harvey IV, Cybernetic Soul in Orbit, 2025, Charcoal, colored pencil, xerox transfer, on matte board, Black Walnut from the Delano Saw Mill, American Hollywood & .999 Pure Silver, 40 x 32 ins.

Harry Gould Harvey IV, LeveleveL oroboros LeveleveL ( Max Angst ), 2025, Charcoal, colored pencil, xerox transfer, on matte board, Black Walnut from the Delano Saw Mill, American Hollywood & .999 Pure Silver, 40 x 32 ins.

Harry Gould Harvey IV, LeveleveL oroboros LeveleveL ( Max Angst ), 2025, Charcoal, colored pencil, xerox transfer, on matte board, Black Walnut from the Delano Saw Mill, American Hollywood & .999 Pure Silver, 40 x 32 ins.

Harry Gould Harvey IV, 777 E’Art’hly Dimensions ( Burnt Offering ), 2025, Charcoal, colored pencil, xerox transfer, on matte board, Black Walnut from the Delano Saw Mill, American Hollywood & .999 Pure Silver, 40 x 32 ins.

Harry Gould Harvey IV, 777 E’Art’hly Dimensions ( Burnt Offering ), 2025, Charcoal, colored pencil, xerox transfer, on matte board, Black Walnut from the Delano Saw Mill, American Hollywood & .999 Pure Silver, 40 x 32 ins.

Harry Gould Harvey IV, Cybernetic Soul in Orbit, 2025, Charcoal, colored pencil, xerox transfer, on matte board, Black Walnut from the Delano Saw Mill, American Hollywood & .999 Pure Silver, 40 x 32 ins.

Harry Gould Harvey IV, Cybernetic Soul in Orbit, 2025, Charcoal, colored pencil, xerox transfer, on matte board, Black Walnut from the Delano Saw Mill, American Hollywood & .999 Pure Silver, 40 x 32 ins.

Harry Gould Harvey IV, LeveleveL oroboros LeveleveL ( Max Angst ), 2025, Charcoal, colored pencil, xerox transfer, on matte board, Black Walnut from the Delano Saw Mill, American Hollywood & .999 Pure Silver, 40 x 32 ins.

Harry Gould Harvey IV, LeveleveL oroboros LeveleveL ( Max Angst ), 2025, Charcoal, colored pencil, xerox transfer, on matte board, Black Walnut from the Delano Saw Mill, American Hollywood & .999 Pure Silver, 40 x 32 ins.