After decades of printmaking, Barbara Harder revels in embracing the accidents.“I’m trying to make things the way I’m making them,” she said, but“sometimes I almost like tripping up,” because sometimes she likes the images she creates better.“You don’t have to beat yourself up more than you need to,” she continued.“It’s really nice to have the space as an artist to do that exploration, and wrestle with yourself, and the paper, and the ink.… It’s the hope that at times in the studio, I can have this spark… whether it’s done, or whether it’s perfect, or whatever it is, it just makes me happy. It’s something to keep after.”
The most recent results of Harder’s art practice are up now at City Gallery on Upper State Street, for a show entitled“Some Things …,” which runs now through Dec. 30.
