HARRY BARTNICK

Humanoma: Aerial Views of the Anthropocene Dystopia.  Highway "ganglions"; Excavators gnawing at foliage to make room for strip mines, quarries, tract housing, industrial parks and factories.

Aerial view of highway overpasses, a few dead trees poking through

9 Overpasses, oil on paper mounted to panel, 15 x 13 1/2 inches.

Close-up of an aerial view of highway overpasses, a few dead trees poking through.

9 Overpasses, DETAIL

Aerial view of highway overpasses, a few dead trees poking through, a tract house development below.

8 Overpasses, oil on paper mounted to panel, 14 1/2 x 14 1/2 inches, private collection, California

Aerial view of the Union Carbide Plant as an invasive creature

Large Factory, oil on prepared paper,20 x 26 inches, private collection

Aerial view of the Union Carbide Plant as an invasive creature, close-up

Large Factory, DETAIL

Aerial view of a tract house development, with highways and overpasses forming an insect-like outline.

Overpass, oil on canvas, 36 x 30 inches, private collection, New York City

Aerial view of a tract house development, with highways and overpasses forming an insect-like outline, close-up.

Overpass, DETAIL

Aerial view of a tract house development, with highways and overpasses forming an insect-like outline, close-up.

Overpass, DETAIL

Aerial view of a tract house development, with highways and overpasses forming an insect-like outline, close-up.

Overpass, DETAIL

Aerial view of a factory and trucks at loading docks, forming a bacteria-like image.

Single Factory with Trucks, oil on prepared paper, 23 x 22 inches

Aerial view of a factory with trucks pulled into loading docks, forming an insect-like image gnawing into a dense woodland.

Dark Factory, oil on canvas, 32 x 48 inches

Aerial view of a factory with trucks pulled into loading docks, forming an insect-like image gnawing into a dense woodland, close-up view.

Dark Factory, DETAIL

A dense forest penetrated in 3 areas (red, yellow and blue) by excavators, storage tanks, buildings.

Economic Growths, oil on linen, 64 x 66 inches

A dense forest penetrated in 3 areas (red, yellow and blue) by excavators, storage tanks, buildings. Detail

Economic Growths, DETAIL

A dense forest penetrated in 3 areas (red, yellow and blue) by excavators, storage tanks, buildings.

Economic Growths, DETAIL

A dense forest penetrated in 3 areas (red, yellow and blue) by excavators, storage tanks, buildings.

Economic Growths, DETAIL

A dense forest penetrated in 3 areas (red, yellow and blue) by excavators, storage tanks, buildings.

Economic Growths,DETAIL

A dense forest penetrated in 3 areas (red, yellow and blue) by excavators, storage tanks, buildings.

Economic Growths, DETAIL

A dense forest penetrated in 3 areas (red, yellow and blue) by excavators, storage tanks, buildings.

Economic Growths, DETAIL

Aerial view of a dense forest invaded in 3 areas (red, yellow, blue) by an industrial park, tract house development, and a truck lot. A pristine lake reflects the sky.

Invasive Species, oil on canvas, 50 x 34 inches

Aerial view of an industrial park advancing on a woodland

Invasive Species, DETAIL

Aerial view of a tractor trailer lot penetrating a forest

Invasive Species, DETAIL

Aerial view of a tract house development as a snake-like form invading the woods

Invasive Species, DETAIL

Aerial view of a tract house development as a snake-like form invading the woods, close-up view

Invasive Species, DETAIL

Aerial view of a tract house development slithering into a valley, its head (a cul-de-sec) turning towards a poison-spewing train wreck in the upper right.

Inroads, oil on canvas, 68 x 66 inches

Aerial view of trees on a hillside

Inroads, DETAIL

Aerial view of a tract house development and cul-de-sac.

Inroads, DETAIL

Sharply curved road in a tract house development

Inroads, DETAIL

A dense forest with several clearings, into which 2 tract house developments with access roads, imagined as parasitic infestations, are being constructed.

Predators, oil on canvas,64 x 51 inches

Aerial view of a tract house development imagined as a parasitic infestation.

Predators, DETAIL

Aerial view of a tract house development imagined as a parasitic infestation.

Predators, DETAIL

Aerial view of a tract house development imagined as a parasitic infestation.

Predators, DETAIL

Aerial view of a factory and access road moving towards a stream or river.

Small Factory, oil on prepared paper, 21 x 22 inches

Aerial view of a factory as a biological, microscopic life form in a dense woodland

Small Factory, DETAIL

Aerial view of a factory as a biological, microscopic life form, sending toxins into a river

Small Factory, DETAIL

Aerial view of a strip mine, in flesh-like colors, in a dense forest.

Strip Mine, oil on prepared paper, 21 x 24 inches

Aerial view of a strip mine, in flesh-like colors, in a dense forest, close-up.

Strip Mine, DETAIL

Aerial view of a bauxite mining camp and storage tank staining the landscape

Bauxite Landscape, oil on prepared paper, 30 x 22 inches

Aerial view of a bauxite mining camp and storage tank staining the landscape, close-up

Bauxite Landscape, DETAIL

Aerial view of a flesh-colored quarry on hillside, and another in the distance

Terrectomies, oil on canvas, 36x 48

Close-up of a flesh-colored quarry

Terrectomies, DETAIL

Close-up of a flesh-colored quarry

Terrectomies, DETAIL

Close-up of a flesh-colored quarry

Terrectomies, DETAIL

Aerial view of a sprawling tract house development as an invasive, reptilian life form

Tract Houses,  oil on linen, 36 x 64,  

Aerial view of a sprawling tract house development as an invasive, reptilian life form, close-up

Tract Houses, DETAIL 

Aerial view of a tract house development, close-up

Tract Houses, DETAIL

Aerial view of an industrial park in which 2 factories spew orange and red toxic smoke

Yellow and Orange, oil on canvas, 20 x 20, private collection, New York City

Aerial view of a factory spewing orange smoke

Yellow and Orange, DETAIL

Aerial view of an industrial park with factorials imagined as bacteria

Industrial Park, oil on canvas, 64 x 65 1/2 inches

Aerial view of a factory envisioned as a bacterium.

Industrial Park, DETAIL

Aerial view of a factory envisioned as a bacterium.

Industrial Park, DETAIL

Aerial view of a factory envisioned as a bacterium.

Industrial Park, DETAIL

Aerial view of a factory envisioned as a bacterium.

Industrial Park, DETAIL

Aerial view of a factory envisioned as a bacterium.

Industrial Park, DETAIL

Aerial view of a factory imagined as a bacterium.

Industrial Park, DETAIL

Aerial view of a factory envisioned as a bacterium.

Industrial Park, DETAIL

Aerial view of a factory envisioned as a bacterium.

Industrial Park, DETAIL

Aerial view of a factory envisioned as a bacterium.

Industrial Park, DETAIL

A 3-panel painting, oil on prepared paper mounted to board, showing a forest landscape in 3 stages of deterioration due to human incursion.

3 Stages, oil on prepared paper, mounted to board.  3 panels. 19 1/4 x 46 inches.

A forested landscape with incipient infection

3 Stages, detail.  Left panel

A forested landscape. Infection farther along.

3 Stages, detail.  Middle panel

A forested landscape, fully infected.

3 Stages, detail.  Right panel

Aerial view of a factory, tractor trailer lot, and tract houses, in a desolated landscape

The Home, The Factory, oil on canvas, 24 x 18

Aerial view of factory

The Home, The Factory, DETAIL

Aerial view of an industrial park and row of tract houses

Industry, oil on canvas, 22 x 19

Aerial view of an industrial in a denuded and flesh-colored landscape.

Factory, Small Park, oil on canvas, 24 x 20

Aerial view of a factory with tractor trailers pulled up to loading docks, surrounded by a parking lot and cars, with the forest pushed to the edge.

Cars and Factory, oil on canvas, 26 x 22

Aerial view of a factory with tractor trailers pulled up to loading docks

Cars and Factory, DETAIL

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