Allen Harrison has shown his work extensively over the past 34 years, with over 25 exhibitions throughout the United States. Most recently he has exhibited at the Portland Art Museum. Harrison displays in both private and public collections including but not limited to the collections of Architectural Digest Publishing Corporation, General Electric, 20th Century Fox, Lowes Corporation, BankAmerica Corporation, the Arco Collection and Goldman-Sachs in Los Angeles. In addition, Harrison’s work has also been seen San Francisco Museum of Modern Art and the Byer Museum of Art. Publications include Art In America, Artnews and the Los Angeles Times. In addition to his career as a painter, Harrison has taught painting and drawing at several California colleges over the past 39 years. ***** Safaryan creates small delicate works, stacking and balancing intricately carved ovoid shapes, defying our assumptions of egg shells as frail. These works reveal the fundamental strength of the egg by demonstrating how much of surface can in fact be removed while still maintaining the structure of the shell. However, our inherent knowledge of shells as imperiled imbues these sculptures with an emotional charge.