Mark Yale Harris

"I attempt to express things that are exquisite and pure."

Mark Yale Harris seeks to invoke an awakening of the sensual; the beauty of a passing sensory experience. The genesis of his works is an emotion. He evokes the duality of our nature with a hard aggressive side in rigid angular lines and a soft side in curves. He blends form, figure, emotion, and gesture resulting in figurative abstractions that are symbols of universal connection.

Conceptual visualization, multiple sketches, and a clay model precede his sculpting in stone. Using his proficiency with tools and innate sense of what necessitates broad strokes versus economy of movement, the figure emerges from the stone. This is the original work that will be cast in bronze using a 6,000 year old tradition called the lost wax method of casting bronze.

After selling his business interests (Founder Red Roof Inns and Amerisuites Hotels), Harris became an artist. In Santa Fe, Native American sculptors Bill Prokopiof and Doug Hyde mentored him. With over 250 U.S. and international exhibitions, Harris has had 90 solo exhibits in museums and galleries. Over 120 publications have featured his sculpture. Harris is represented by twenty galleries.