Harriet Finck is a painter, an adjunct professor of art, and an art center instructor based in Montclair, New Jersey. Trained as an architect, her work explores the oneness of natural phenomena —finding similar patterns at the cellular and astronomical levels— and of fragmentation leading to wholeness. Her subject matter has included landscape, still life, nods to Constructivism and to Hudson River painting, and classic Hebrew texts. Typically, she works in color, in acrylic on paper or wood.
During the enforced isolation of Covid, she discovered the beauty and mystery of household tools, tracing the objects themselves on paper, leaving the solid empty, and filling the surrounding void —in black ink on white— with pulsating, tiny shapes.
