This exhibit includes examples from the artist’s two main bodies of work, mixing both the real with the abstract. The artworks in this exhibit combine his early interests in figuration with his fervor for richly expressionist impasto works, merged with a wealth of found objects. Whether combining protruding globules of paint, newsprint, metal, rope, fabrics, wood, or other found and crushed materials, Dennis Hare builds upon his previously flat canvas with familiar yet abstracted forms and figures. Silhouetted figures appear, disappear, and then reappear again as paint and texture merge with the surface. Hare imbues his art and life with a unique visceral energy that activates both mind and soul. He describes his painting process much “like a dance,” where the union of paint and object are both physical and rhythmic, needing to be viewed both up-close and at a distance. Hare has exhibited widely throughout the United States and Mexico, focusing on Expressive Figure Painting, and 2nd Generation, Contemporary Bay Area Painters.