ETH-3371 "Didn't Do Her Homework"
8x10 mixed 2024
ETH-3380 "A Pulling"
11x14 mixed 2024
ETH-3345 "Artist As Model As Artist As.."
11x14 mixed 2023
ETH-3254 "Hammajang"
5x7 oil 2013
ETH-3189 "Hoe Aku i ka Wa'a"
11x14 pencil/acrylic 2022
ETH-3185 "High C"
8x10 pencil/acrylic 2021 [Private Collection]
ETH-3131 "The Veteran"
8x10 pencil/acrylic 2021
ETH-3095 "Duke III"
11x14 pencil/acrylic 2021
ETH-3080 "Can't Be Too Careful"
8x10 pencil/acrylic 2020 [Private Collection]
ETH-0706 "Portrait, in Black and White #26, medusa"
mixed media 38x38" 1991 [Private Collection]
ETH-0676 "...as in the hearts of the people..."
pencil 9x13" 1991 [Private Collection]
ETH-3245 "Fractured Paradise"
11x14 mixed 2023
Juror's Award, Hawai'i Watercolor Society Open,
August 27 - October 1, 2023
ETH-3276 "Separation of Church and Stacy"
8x10 mixed 2023 [Private Collection]
ETH-2745 "What Grande Could Mean"
11x14 oil 2017 [Private Collection]
This piece was part of the Schaefer Portrait Challenge
at the Maui Arts & Cultural Center January 14 thru March 18, 2018
ETH-1715 "Incoming"
oil 16x20 2009 [Private Collection]
ETH-2372 "Locard's Exchange"
oil 12x16 2012
ETH-2935 "Who Told You That You Were Naked"
12x15 oil 2019 [Private Collection]
ETH-0744 "Portrait, in Black and White #35, Purple Julie"
mixed media 53x54" 1991 [Private Collection]
ETH-2960 "Palama"
11x14 pencil/acrylic 2019
ETH-2957 "Consumed" 11x14 pencil/acrylic 2019
ETH-2570 "Trigger Warnings"
8x10 pencil and acrylic 2015 [Private Collection]
ETH-0460 “Waterfall IV”
acrylic 28x40" 1988 [Private Collection]
ETH-3030 "2020"
11x14 oil 2020 [Private Collection]
ETH-0518 "Mnemonic #2 (Feb 1976)"
Bic pen 13x17" 1989 [Private Collection]
ETH-3304 "Oh, The Words You Choose To Trust"
8x10 mixed 2023
Edd Tokarz Harnas is an artist who moved from upstate New York
to paradise at the end of the last century. Besides his usual
portrait and figure works, he added scenes of the beauty of Hawaii
and its ocean.
Harnas began art as a career in 1979 when he took the Best of Show
in his first juried art show. With a day job in radio and television,
he also worked on his painting and drawing.
Except for a workshop from time to time, Harnas is pretty much
a self taught artist who enjoys playing with different techniques,
media and subject matter. As a result, he uses assorted media,
like oils, acrylics, and intaglio, as well as the less obvious,
such as audio, video, crayons, markers and the Bic pen; surfaces range
from canvas to paper bags.
His subjects vary from the Hawaii landscape amid urban sprawl,
to the landmarks of his birth place, plus portraits and figure studies.
Sometimes there is a union of realistic subjects in unusual and interesting
combinations; often in mixed media.
Harnas’s work has been included in many shows in both his former
home state, and adopted state. Others of his work have been featured
in many competitions at galleries, museums, and universities
across the United States since 1979.
His works were chosen for these exhibits by such noted curators,
and art experts. Harnas has been accepted in competitions at the
Arnot Art Museum, Elmira, New York; Stedman Art Gallery, Rutgers
University, Camden, New Jersey; Clemson University, Clemson,
South Carolina; and Brigham Young University, Provo Utah among other art shows.
Painting and drawings by Harnas are in private collections in the U.S.,
as well as Canada, Europe, Australia and Japan.
Harnas has art for sale at West End Gallery, as well as online.