Exhibition: And the Light is forever, and the Light it is free

Harry Gould Harvey IV And the Light is forever, and the Light it is free April 17 - August 31 2020

Three drawings in ornate hand carved wooden frames are hung in a row on a white wall. The drawings are mostly white with red ink and colored pencil line drawing.

Bureau is pleased to debut an online viewing room featuring ten new works by Harry Gould Harvey IV. The selection includes new drawings as well as found vintage photographs from his region, all in handmade frames of black walnut foraged by the artist. The photos show the Quonset hut – which was once Rhode Island's largest military export – reconfigured into temples, altars, shelters and domestic dwellings. The color photographs show Fall River’s Notre Dame, the city’s largest church, in flames. In 1982 it suffered a fire from which it never recovered; all that remained were two candlesticks and three angels.

With a book and a steeple and a bell and a key Well they'll bind you forever, but they can't, said he For the book, it will perish and the steeple will fall And the Light will be shining at the end of it all. If we give you a pistol, will you fight for the Lord? But you can't kill the devil with a gun or a sword. Will you swear on the Bible? "I will not!" said he, "For the Truth is more holy than the book to me." There's an ocean of darkness and I drown in the night Til I come through the darkness to the ocean of Light and the Light is forever, and the Light it is free And I walk in the glory of the Light, said he. – Lyrics to a Quaker folk song

Harry Gould Harvey IV (b. 1991 Fall River, MA) lives and works in Tiverton, RI. Recent solo and two-person exhibitions include Coniunctio, with Kyung-Me, Bureau, New York, 2019 - 2020; EARTH CRISIS, with Samantha Durand, Alyssa Davis Gallery, New York, 2018; Amen, Thanks Computer God!, with Jesse Sullivan, Freddy, Harris, NY, 2018; Prudence, Patience, Hope & Despair, Motel, Brooklyn, 2018; Harry Gould Harvey IV with Species, Atlanta Contemporary, Atlanta, 2018. Harvey is preparing a two-person exhibition with Faith Wilding at the David Winton Bell Gallery, Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island.

Image of a drawing in an ornate hand carved wooden frame hung on a white wall. The drawing depicts a red line drawing of some sort of good and evil with text circulating the drawing.

Seraphim Blinded In A World Ablaze, 2020, Black Walnut from the Newport Mansions, reclaimed zebra wood, MDF, colored pencil and charcoal on paper, 12 × 6 ½ × 2 in.

Image of a drawing in an ornate hand carved wooden frame hung on a white wall. The drawing depicts a red line drawing of a cross that has flames coming from it with a buddha shown at the center of the cross.

A Mutual Renewal, 2020, Black walnut from the Newport Mansions, Carved acrylic, MDF, colored pencil and charcoal on paper, 14 × 7 ¼ × 2 in.

Image of a drawing in an ornate hand carved wooden frame hung on a white wall. The drawing depicts a zodiac chart with all zodiac animals represented rendered in red colored pencil, at the center of this chart is a star of David.

Rise From Agnosia, 2020, Black walnut from the Newport Mansions, MDF, colored pencil and charcoal on paper, 11 ½ × 7 ¼ × 2 in.

Installation view of five found photographs in ornate hand carved wooden frames, hung in a cross formation on a white wall.

And The Steeples Shall Fall But The Light Will Be Shining At The End Of It All, 2020 Found silver gelatin print dated 1952, Carved acrylic, Black walnut from the Newport Mansions, and MDF, 15 × 9 × 2 in.

Image of a found black and white photograph in an ornate carved wooden frame. The image depicts the interior of a quonset hut with chairs facing a back wall.

Altered Alter / With A Million Angels Watching, And They Never Move A Wing II, 2020 Found Silver Gelatin Print dated 1954, Black walnut from the Newport Mansions and MDF, 11 ¼ × 13 × 2 in.

Image of a found black and white photograph in an ornate carved wooden frame. The image depicts the exterior view of a quonset hut with a long curtain draped in front of the doorway.

Strangled in A Pneumatic Neoprene Dream, 2020, Found Silver Gelatin Print dated 1949, Black Walnut from the Newport Mansions and MDF, 11 × 13 × 2 in.

Image of a found black and white photograph in an ornate carved wooden frame. The image depicts the exterior of a quonset hut that has been transformed into a church.

Christ In Quarantine / With A Million Angels Watching And They Never Move A Wing, 2020 Found Silver Gelatin Print dated 1954, Black walnut from the Newport Mansions and MDF, 11 × 12 ½ × 2 in.

Image of a found black and white photograph in an ornate carved wooden frame. The image depicts two dice and a crown of thorns.

Passiflora Incarnata, 2020, Found Silver Gelatin Print dated 1961, Black walnut from the Newport Mansions, and MDF, 15 ½ × 9 ¼ × 2 in.

Image of two found color photographs in an ornate carved wooden frames hanging side by side on a white wall.

Image of two found color photographs framed together in an ornate carved wooden frame. The image depicts two angles of a house on fire.

As The Lanterns Dim, 2020, Two found C prints 1982 Fall River MA, Black walnut from the Newport Mansions and MDF, 9 × 8 ½ × 1 ½ in.

Image of two found color photographs framed together in an ornate carved wooden frame. The image depicts two angles of a church on fire.

Two Candle Sticks And Three Angels Found Among The Rubble, 2020, Two found C prints 1982 Fall River MA, Black Walnut from the Newport Mansions, Carved Acrylic and MDF, 10 ½ × 8 ½ × 1 ½ in.