Mark Harrington loves the line. It runs in pulses across the canvas. Without a beginning, as though there were no fixed edge, and without an end. Line after line. In the middle it breaks as it must; the surface is divided in two like an ancient folding writing tablet. The 'writing' breaks .in a groove and then starts again with the figures slightly displaced against each other. In contrast to the exact geometric lines of the early works the lines appear to be broken, more open, alive. They are not subject to any order or system Their strength varies as does their separation from each other. They are lines of force with great intensity that include the space and seem to continue along the wall.
Mark Harrington is a painter However he does not paint in the conventional sense. There is no brush stroke and no signature to reveal his technique of applying the color. Curious - the surfaces are slippery, faint, soft, the lines let into the painted foundation as though they were behind a veil. But the colors shine brilliantly!
In the front there are always two in contrast purple and red, yellow and orange, gray and white, yellow and black.