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Exhibition Review (excerpt): “Harrison Haft - Nuclear Eden” at Collective Z Gallery, Chinatown

Below is an excerpt from my newest review on Whitehot Magazine! The link to the full review is in one of my recent stories:

Mythology is often perceived as only a historical construct, but contemporary myth-making has its place in the undercurrents of today’s visual culture. Harrison Haft, an artist and filmmaker, recently unveiled a voluminous body of work in his debut solo exhibition Nuclear Eden that speak to of-the-moment issues and themes stemming from a more universalized and timeless nature. Passive glances have no place in the world of Haft, for provocation is the name of the painter’s game.

Direct, piercing, downright penetrating gazes oriented towards the viewer recur among each of his subjects: human, animal, and mutants. Hindsight (2026) is an oil painting whose luminescent glow is the result of the latex-primed panel upon which is the image of a peacock with its ostentatious feathers crowding the entire composition. The reflective eye of the peacock is not the only look we are receiving as the ocular patterns that cover the feathers amplify our awareness of being stared at. Something about this image gives off the visual embellishment of a 17th Century pronkstilleven painting, but with even more of an uncanny seriousness.

#artcritic #artcritics #artreview #artwriter #artwriting

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@haft gonna give me CTE 😶‍🌫️

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LGK 🏀🌎🏆
When the Knicks win the championship, I’ll give a version the size of an actual basketball to one of you ⬇️

To enter:
tag another knicks fan, and repost 🔁 “LGK”.

“The World in the Palm of Your Hand (I)”

Corroded, hand-polished, and flame-painted hammered copper panels, rubberized gel pigments on acrylic hemisphere
48” × 48” × 24”
2026
Sold

#knickstape #newyorkforever #lgk #knicks #knicksnation

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HAFT (new StreetWear for you to check out) #explorepage✨ #fashion #streetwear #style #whattowear

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May the road rise to meet you,
May the wind be always at your back,
May the sun shine warm upon your face.

What a month! It’s hard to believe that June is already here.

Here’s a smattering of great memories.

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There’s 1 day left to see my solo exhibition, Nuclear Eden! 👨🏻‍🎨

This body of work has occupied my mind, my studio, and my life for the last 2 years, with 3 of the works originating from even earlier. These works are built through layers of oil paint, metal, lacquer, flame, acid, experimentation, and revision, they explore transformation, rupture, desire, memory, and the strange beauty that can emerge from decay.

Positioned between genesis and apocalypse, these works are intended to evoke a powerful, almost compulsory physical sensation—an epiphanic jolt that provokes and awakens in a cultural landscape where so much media feels dulled, diluted, and mass-produced. That moment of revelation is central to the work and intertwines with the academic, mythological, and material contexts embedded within each piece. Unabashedly departing from the comfortable tendency to celebrate the vague or nondescript, the paintings confront the viewer immediately, then retreat into mystique upon closer inspection as their surfaces begin to fragment and unravel in iconoclastic ways. Seeing these deeply personal visions resonate with others has meant more than I can express.

The title Nuclear Eden speaks to a paradox that has long fascinated me: the coexistence of creation and destruction, paradise and catastrophe, tenderness and violence. Throughout the exhibition, bodies mutate, associations dissolve, and familiar forms burgeon into something dreamlike, unsettling, and alive, simultaneously archaic and hyper-modern.

Thank you to everyone who has visited the events hosted at the gallery, shared the work, collected pieces, and spent time engaging with these paintings.

If you haven’t had a chance to see it yet, this is your last opportunity.

Nuclear Eden — closing tomorrow May 30th at Collective Z Gallery open 1-6 PM at 325 Broome Street ❤️ catalog available upon request 🐆🦚

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hindsight

oil on latex primed panel, 36” x 48”

Now on view at @collective.z.gallery as part of my solo show ‘Nuclear Eden’ that runs until May 29th.

#oilpainting #art #surrealism #artweek

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eat what you kill

Oil carved into corroded iron on latex-primed panel, 48”x36”, 2026

Now on view at @collective.z.gallery at 325 Broome Street as part of my solo show ‘Nuclear Eden’ until May 29th

#emergingartist #nycgallery #oilpainting #surrealism #mixedmedia

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eat what you kill

Oil carved into corroded iron on latex-primed panel, 48”x36”, 2026

Now on view @collective.z.gallery as part of my solo ‘Nuclear Eden’ until May 29th

Gallery walkthrough reel of this piece up now 🐆

#emergingartists #nycgallery #oilpainting #surrealism #animalpainting

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‘mutually insured destruction,’ now on view at @collective.z.gallery along with 9 other oil paintings of mine for my solo show ‘Nuclear Eden’ until May 29th.

325 Broome Street, Wednesday-Saturday 1-6 PM

Oil, torch-fired chrome, sweat, engine enamel on latex-primed panel
48 × 36 × 1 1/2 in | 121.9 × 91.4 × 3.8 cm

#art #artisticexpression #emergingartists #artisttalk

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mutually insured destruction

Oil, torch-fired chrome, sweat, engine enamel on latex-primed panel, 48” x 36”, 2026

Now on view at @collective.z.gallery until May 29th in my solo show ‘Nuclear Eden.’ Walkthrough reel going in depth with this piece just posted as well.

#contemporaryart #oilpainting #emergingartist #artweek #mixedmedia

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